Happy Leap Day 2016

Every four years we get a bonus day at the end of February because our calendar sucks and this is the best we can do to make it work.

Since this has no real impact on anyone or anything other than serving as a reminder that there’s some kind of Olympics that year (the summer games in Rio this year, a place currently best known for the Zika virus and some of the world’s most polluted water–have fun, athletes!) it seems like a reasonable solution. And it lets people born on the 29th pretend to age in quasi-dog years. “I got my driver’s license when I was four years old, that’s right.”

And it also lets me pad my post count.

So Happy Leap Day, everyone. Leap away.