On Friday, January 19th, at 6:07pm in Auburn, California, I chanced upon a meteor burning up in the atmosphere while I was driving to a nutrition lecture to meet my friend. If that friend had not invited me that day to attend the lecture, and, indeed, if I had not phoned her that day to see when we might hook up again, I wouldn’t have been driving in that direction at all, and wouldn’t have seen this remarkable sight. Random witnessing, and sometimes very remarkable random w