Rant #3,301: Daydream

No, we are not daydreaming or hallucinating.

It is actually February 29, as 2024 is a leap year, a once every four years occurrence that we last hit in 2020.

We have leap years to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical year or the seasonal year.

2020 was a leap year, too, but the day fell on a Saturday, so I didn't write about the day here in this Blog.

I went back to 2016, and the day was during the week that year, and I wrote about a myriad of topics that day, including about my broken-down computer and actress Salma Hayek, but I really didn't write about anything specifically related to this leap year day.

Four years earlier, during the 2012 leap year day, I actually wrote two Blog posts: a regular post and an additional post about the death of Davy Jones.

So in 2022, not only did we have an extra day on the calendar, but we also registered an extra Blog post that year.

Today, I guess I could say that this is just another leap year day, but so much has changed in my world, and in the world in general, over the past 12 years or so.

I won't go into chapter and verse about this, but I really don't think the world is the same as it was a dozen years ago, or heck, the world isn't the same that it was when I came onto this earth in 1957.

That year was not a leap year--the first leap year thst I experienced was in 1960, and knowing my personal history, at two years old going on three, I was somewhere doing something as a little kid, after two months earlier welcoming my sister to the world.

But back to Leap Year 2024 ... how are you going to use your extra day to your advantage?

For me, it is a day that I will go to physical therapy, another day on my road to full recovery.

So I guess I am using the day to the best of my ability--how about you?

And yes, I feel for those born on this day, and only can actually celebrate their special day on the exact date of their birth every four yesrs.

I believe I know one person who was born on that day, and I guess it is difficult, but they manage.

I am sure their parents were hoping against hope that they would be born on February 28 or on March 1, but it simply didn't happen.

And just so you know, some people even stretch the month further than February 29.

There was a rock band in the late 1960s or early 1970s that was known as "The 31st of February."

They came from Jacksonville, Florida, had a few records, but didn't make it.

I guess that is what happens when you stretch the month of February to the breaking point.

It is bad enough that we have an extra day on the calendar every four years on February 29, but to stretch our shortest month beyond that ...

Nope, nothing good can come of it.