wasn't lucky. i hit the expected # of blocks for my hashrate. Last year net hashrate was much lower (as i mentioned in post) and hence difficulty was too.
difficulty determines how many blocks you can expect to hit in a given time period for a given hashrate.
and last year difficulty was less than half what it is now. It all maths out.

are you sure you got your decimal place right?   i get 2 to 3 blocks with 1.4 mh!!  (woo hoo!! ding!! just hit one while writing this post,  karma!!)
  10 mh should get you  around 14 blocks a day (at 1000mh net hashrate)