So here's a weird thing.

This morning I was doing my daily reading of Dickens, and I encountered a word I was unfamiliar with. So I wrote this:

Day 14 (DDRD 2,013) May 6, 2023

Miscellaneous Papers Volume II

Read to page 192. Thought I'd caught a typo (of which there have

been a few...but very few) when I read the word "stertorously."  I was sure that the word meant was "stentoriously." But one of the gifts

of old age and general increptitude is a lack of faith in one's self,

so I Googled. And lo and behold, stertorously means

"With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner." (https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/stertorously?fbclid=IwAR103pvg7DvjXtucDsAPRg3q0-71SYSSmV8Sa1slj-9WHbG7XjIb1ZUGpHk)

And just a few minutes ago I was reading Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (by Edgar Rice Burroughs) to my son, and this came up immediately:

WTF?

And just to make it even weirder...I have gotten way ahead of my reading goal in the Dickens book. If I'd stuck to my goal...which I usually do...I'd have been on page 116 today, and would not have read the word stertorously for another ten days. Also, I am several days behind in my reading of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book because Joe hasn't wanted to read for the past several days. There's no way that I should have read this word in these two books on the same day.

So I can only conclude that THE UNIVERSE wanted me to happen upon this word.

Okay, got it, UNIVERSE. Now...what do I do with it?