Historically Oct. 1st. has always been a bad day for me.  Odd as this may sound I can look back and site specific examples.  The first earthquake I had ever experienced when I was young was on Oct. 1st.  Few years later while sitting in class, someone runs into the class hits me in the side of the head knocking me out of my chair and steals my watch.  No other day out of any year seems to stand out like Oct. 1st.  This year prior to the first I get wind that I'm getting fired and make arrangements accordingly to start a new job on the first.  As if life took a look at me and said "No, you aren't getting away that easily." my younger sons winds up in the ER, then gets transferred to a children's hospital an hour away with a severe case of pneumonia completely out of the blue.  Thankfully he has now recovered, however the timing of it all seems more than a little like coincidence.