I figured out what all the portents were harbinging.  Apparently the dark forces of the universe were all just trying to tell me my car was low on radiator fluid.  So I put some in, and everything’s fine. 

Also, yesterday, I saw a swarm of blue two-headed bees.  Turns out they were just trying to tell me to read the Buffy comics, which I did.  What nice bees!

–Eric