All the pinwheels in Australia are upside down and hence will not work.

No Bill, there wasn't anything in that list about 18181. That's because it was all that was left to my mother (apart from the kids, of course) when he died. She kept it close to her heart, but she'd let us see it when we brought dandelions and other flowers that children pick to put on his grave. It was, she said, "their number" just as they considered "Stardust" as "their song."

Ah, I remember those days so well...our grubby chubby little hands clutching wild violets and dandelion flowers in aluminum foil "vases"...the tears...the prayers said around the grave as we knelt on the scabby knees of children...my mother gathering us around and saying "Here is the Family Number, passed down from generation to generation. Someday I will pass it on to the oldest son as it was passed on to your father by his mother."

And we children took the message to heart, and even though my brothers, tried their best to succeed me as the oldest son, I survived and Mom passed that number on to me with her dying breath.