Happy Friday the 13th! 

Today's Friday the 13th: Watch out for black cats, broken mirrors and crazed fiends wearing hockey masks
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The bad news is today's Friday the 13th.
The good news is it’s the last of three in 2012.
Typically, there’s only one or two per year, but 2012 has three Fridays that fall on the 13th of the month.
What’s worse, they’re exactly 13 weeks apart – Jan. 13, April 13 and July 13, and that hasn’t happened since 1984.
If you’re afraid of the number “13,” you have “triskaidekaphobia,” and you aren’t alone.
The number 13 has been seen as an unlucky number for as long as people can remember.
Most tall buildings don’t have a 13th floor. Ship captains seldom go to sea with a crew of 12 because, with the skipper, there’d be 13 on board.
On the other hand, the ancient Mayans of Central America considered the number 13 to be a sacred number.
If you’re afraid of “Friday the 13th,” you have “paraskevidekatriaphobia,” at least according to behavioral scientist Donald Dossey, who estimates more than 20 million people chose not to get out of bed this morning and wait it out.
In fact, it might be the biggest superstition held by Americans. Black cats and broken mirrors just don’t compare.
Mathematician Tom Fernsler of the University of Delaware, an expert on the number 13, claims most people – 87 percent – have one superstition or another.
“The other 13 percent are liars,” says Fernsler, dubbed “Dr. 13.”
If you’re afraid of Jason Voorhees in the "Friday the 13th" film franchise, you’ve got “macheteparaskevidekatriaphobia,” according to a word I just made up moments ago.
Just go with it.
On a more serious note, some terrible tragedies have happened on Friday the 13th. Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash in 1959. President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. But catastrophies certainly happen on other days, too.
It's been a good day for the stock market so far. Not so much for movies, if you catch our drift.
A few Friday the 13th myths are brutal, such as, if you cut your hair on Friday the 13th, someone in your family will die. So if you have a haircut planned for today, you might want to reschedule.
Beginning tomorrow, you can relax. The next Friday the 13th doesn’t happen until September 2013, and that’s 14 months from now.

So, how do YOU handle Friday the 13th? Me? I look at it mathematically, I have bad luck on a pretty much constant basis. That being said, on a day when bad luck reigns, it should act upon me like multiplying two negatives...that's right, you get a positve. Oh shoot, I better go buy a scratcher. Ta,Ta!