Happy New Year

Hey Kids.

It's another year, I guess; at least according to the current calendar.  Did you know there's Yet Another Attempt to Reform the Calendar?  Yeah, really:

But as Weekend Edition Sunday notes, some researchers at Johns Hopkins University have devised a different way to count our days — with a leap week every few years to keep the calendar on track. Hats off to USA Today for explaining it all in this nifty graphic.
And, Scientific American says, holidays like Christmas and New Year's Day would always fall on a Sunday. It seems neat and streamlined for our modern age — except maybe to those of us who work on Sundays.

Our current calendar is only just over 400 years old, so really it's not all that iron-clad.  And, really, this whole Leap Year Thing is a bit of a hack to keep it drifting too far out.

I'll save you the time reading:  this proposed calendar has every month with 30 days, every third month with 31, and every 5-6 years we take a jump to the left (or was that a step to the right?) and add a week to get the calendar back into synch with the seasons.  This leap-week may not have a month or year to belong to, but man, we could party like it's 1999.

So there's benefits.  And it was designed to begin today in order to reduce clutter with current santa-cults and their ranting, freaking, OCD observers - if you don't have your hands on your hips when you bring your knees in tight, you could go go hell - so let's start now.  ... and ignore how this new arbitrary calendar caters to the faddish pointless santa-cults and ignores the 28-day 13-cycle lunar calendar, because, well, who the hell cares if the moon or any other part of the universe gets upset.  The santa cults appear to believe they control the universe anyway, and the solstice is just a bunch of hottie wiccans dancing naked around a fire (get 'cher tickets now, pay per view sundaySUNdaySUNDAYYY).

But I digress two more times.  Happy new year and happy new calendar.

Oh.  And the Annapolis sparking rosé was freakin' awesome.

You should get some from J's uncle.  

He's a great guy.