Sometime toward the middle of July, he went to his local Barnes and Noble in a last-ditch effort to find something, even though he’d been there several times earlier. He was in the store about an hour, and came across a couple books with some possibly useful information. But he was late for something else and had to leave.
When he got out to his van to unlock the passenger side door (the driver’s side door had a broken lock - he couldn’t unlock it with the key), there, on the parking lot pavement, staring blatantly up at him, was something that looked like a little advertisement sign, about 6" x 12", with the large block-print letters in glowing reflector orange: “MCI”.
He now has this object in his possession. It is a magnetized rubber panel that must have been on a truck or van, but wherever and whenever it came from, its appearance at that time, given his preoccupation with MCI, was nothing short of absurdly miraculous.
Um. So that’s a true story. So they say. So I say. And regarding the numerology of MCI, I say that, as a Roman Numeral, MCI is 1101. 1101 devolves to 3. Or it could also be thought of as 13 in binary. 13 devolves to 4. M is the 13th letter. C is the 3rd. I is the 9th. Together these add up to 25. 25 devolves to 7. 7 plus 3 equals 10. 10 devolves to 1.