Flight sims' lack of UFOs and pilot synchronicity

Aviation has been something that has had a influence on my life for a long time. My father is a major aviation buff and my best friend is a pilot. Because of both of them I've seen and played a number of flight simulators, most recent being Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X on my 360. Over the years I've noticed something that only someone with my interests would notice in flight sims and that is a disturbing lack of UFO sightings. There are never UFO sightings in flight sims. It's like the whole simulating airplane flight thing has gotten as real in simulators as possible, but they left out the idea of seeing UFOs.

Aside from that, I've been contemplating getting myself financial aid and going through the flight training program at the local community college. Partly because I think it'd be fun and also because I feel I need a career move. Oddly these thoughts have been accompanied by two weird bits of synchronicity today. The first one was that when my wife went and checked out the web page for the aviation program I'm going to look into, low and behold my best friend who went through it, had his picture next to a plane on there. The second was that I mentioned the idea to coworker today only to find out he is going through the program. It was truly like weird.

Autumnforest of Ghost Hunting Theories once said in a comment on another synchronicity post of mine "I usually look at those serendipitious events as an exclamation point -- a sign I'm following the right path.", so I wonder if today's synchronicities were saying that to me.

Zombie news & synchronicity

All day long I've been in a bit of a zombie mood. I've been wanting to play zombie video games, watch zombie movies, and just tried renting Zombieland (been hearing good things about it) from one of them magic rental boxes, but it didn't like my debit card (modern tech is overrated!) Just a few moments ago I actually bought one of the tracks from the original Dawn of the Dead soundtrack (creepy synth-goodness) which is one of the best zombie movie soundtracks ever. Point is, zombie mood, straight up zombie mood. Now that being said, I had a bit of zombie synchronicity happen while browsing through the blogs I follow today.

Over at Ugly Overload (focuses on the uglies in the animal kingdom) I found out that scientists are experimenting with zombie producing wasps to help fight crop infesting insects (sort of making an all natural pesticide...if you consider genetic alterations all natural). The frightening part is that while it is unlikely, there is always some freak chance they will produce wasps capable of infecting humans and turning them into everyone's favorite flesh eating undead. This same concept also happens to be part of the plot in the zombie game, Dead Rising, which although fun, I would hate to have to deal with in real life.

Anyways, you can read up on the full story over at Popsci, and I will go and work on my zombie outbreak survival plan just in case. Lets see...cricket bat, shotgun, 45. magnum, lots of ammo...plenty of food for wife and kids...loose the easily startled chihuahua...