take a leap

 Today is the 5th day of the 9th week, the 29th day of the 2nd month, the 60th day of 2024, and:

  • Bachelor's Day
  • Digital Learning Day
  • International Repetitive Strain Injury Awareness Day
  • International Underlings Day
  • Leap Day
  • National Frog Legs Day
  • National Surf and Turf Day
  • National Time Refund Day
  • National Toast Day
  • Rare Disease Day
  • Saliolum
  • Superman's Birthday - well at least Action Comics #149 said it was 

ON THIS DAY IN....

1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies
1692 - First people are accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, a West Indian slave
1712 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar.
1908 - Dutch scientists produce solid helium
1912 – The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks
1960 - Hugh Hefner opens his first Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, in Chicago
1968 -  US ends regular flights with nuclear bombs and performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1996 - Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-23 returns from Mir space station
2024 - Voyager 1 is 22h 33m 55s of light travel time from Earth, or 24,354,000,000 km / 15,133,000,000 miles / 162.79 AU 


Quote of the day:
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."
~  Cynthia Heimel - American feminist humorist worrier 


An odd day that only happens every four years.  You always know which year it is because it is divisible by four [unless it is the end of the century, being a year divisible by 100, then it has be to divisible by 400].  Leap year / day is necessary to keep the Gregorian calendar in sync with the earth's orbit around the sun because one transit is actually 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds.  Multiplying that all by four doesn't quite get you to an extra day, but it is close.  

Having an extra day in the month doesn't ever seem to make the EOM any smoother though





Apparently I tend not to take pictures on this day because the photo memory was empty





So, here's a picture of Triscuit chilling out before I put my workstation up

The good news is, no matter how stressed I got between about 60 emails for one loan closing [which I then had to get onto the loan accounting system and disbursed for month's end] and caused me to lose my temper over having to verify my personal identity [my home address and birthdate]  in order to verify my company's wire instructions...  

Another round of EOM reports and reconciliations ahead - and one more EOY report to complete

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