Weekend Plans Post: February is the Longest Month

When I was a kid in elementary school, we devoted a day or two to the calendar and how it got that way. We had to memorize the “30 Days Hath September (all the rest I can’t remember)” poem and do the knuckle trick.

I remember learning that Quintilis had 31 days and Sextilis had 30, but Caesar Augustus stole a day from February to give him the name number as Julius’s month. I remember feeling really resentful about that. Who did this guy think he was? Stealing calendar days! (And I was today years old when I learned that this is not true. Huh.) I put together a little plan to regularize the calendar and give us a straightforward 31/30 calendar. I didn’t have all of the kinks worked out but I was on the right track when the teacher, of course, shot my idea down.

Now that I am older I can appreciate that February is the month that they stole a day from. Seriously, it’s interminable. We could probably stand to give November an extra day, now that I think about it. February isn’t really using the 28th. It can have it back every four years, maybe.

My goodness, this is the last weekend in February and, holy cow, not only is it going to be interminable, it’s going to be *COLD* and interminable. I went out to use a broom to clear the sidewalk of the dry and depressing snow and about 2 minutes in my hands started hurting and by the time I was done, I couldn’t feel my pinkies.

I will say that huffing in frustration is better when you can see your breath.

Our D&D group will be getting together, though, and (according to the emails), everybody can make it for the first time since before Thanksgiving! So we’re going to be playing together as a group for the first time in a long while. That will be one of the things where time will stop moving oh-so-very slowly and speed up to normal time for a few hours.

Then we’ll be back to, ugh, February.

So… what’s on your docket?

(Featured image is “Zoomies”. Photo taken by Maribou.)