I always wanted to play "Where's Waldo"... |
Dad made a grumpy cake... apparently it was actually the elevator door that made him grumpy, not the cake... |
No pictures of Aunt Maggie from her visit, but here's BC hoping she'll get something out of the photo sessions... |
Dad had absolutely nothing to do with this... this is iPhone work, not Photoshop... |
Now this is Dad playing with Lightroom to take a boring pile of wood and make it into... I don't know what he made it in to... |
I did two different rides at the BEAT February event but this isn't actually either one... This is just us before the first ride... |
This is us in one of the rides when Morgan was (sort of) cooperating... |
And this is us after the second ride... even getting him to pose for a picture requires a group effort! |
February 29th! We only get to celebrate this every four years...
Actually, we only get to celebrate this slightly less than every four years since every hundred years is not actually a leap year (unless it is also an even four hundred years so 2000 actually was a leap year...) and since most of us aren't born on February 29th or in a leap year things are even more messy. For example this is my 14th February 29th in 19768 days so I'm currently averaging a February 29th approximately every 3.87 years...
Of course, you don't care about that. What is really worrying you is, "How many leap seconds have occurred in Wayne's life?" Well, the first leap second was introduced on June 30, 1972 and there have been 26 seconds added to the UTC time scale since. The last one was inserted on December 31, 2016. Which naturally leads to the follow up question, "So when is the next one?"
Leap seconds and leap years are both implemented to keep our time in accordance with the position of Earth. However, leap seconds are added when needed, based on measurements, and leap years are regularly occurring events based on set rules. Some proposals have been made to implement larger corrections like leap hours, which would occur much less often than leap seconds. Also, it has been suggested to stop corrections to UTC all together. And just who is making these proposals? Probably the same scum that de-listed Pluto as a planet! We can't let them get away with another travesty of justice! Discussions of the future of leap seconds are ongoing at meetings of the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union. Get involved! Save the leap second!
There, now you have something to distract you from politics and corona viruses. You're welcome.
Sorry there aren't more pictures, but we apparently haven't done anything photo worthy in awhile. Maybe that will change next month, but no promises.
And if you're confused by the photo captions... look for Lucie, we had to replace the inside doors in the elevator and the 2nd one didn't go better than the 1st one, Maggie really was in Oregon, I have no idea where the sparkles came from, I did it all in Lightroom not Photoshop, there's more light in the riding pen, Morgan decided to be a bigger pill than normal, and I just thought it was funny how much effort was going into a simple photo...