When I was 16 years old, I went to the DMV to get my license. I had received my permit on November 21, 1999 (one day after my birthday). The law said you had to wait 1 year. 2000 was a leap year, and so I went down to the DMV, and argued with the guy behind the counter that 365 days after November 21, 1999 was in fact November 20, 2000, and that he needed to let me take my driving test that day. His argument was that the computer system wouldn’t let him do that, and so the machines won that day. Damn the machines…<\/p>\n
I haven’t really thought about that for years now. Other dumb decisions loom larger (crashing the car 1 month later; not focusing on soccer or school, but focusing too much on girls; etc.)<\/p>\n
But on the flight back home Saturday, the family and I took off on January 2, 2016 at 9pm, and landed on January 2, 2016 at 11am. We then proceeded to relive January 2, 2016 for a second time – having another day’s worth of meals; naps; and the rest – before finally seeing January 3, 2016 (and we only saw that 1 time). On the way to Fiji, we never saw December 23. Well, technically we slept through it for a few hours.<\/p>\n
So from that point of view, my 2015 was 364 1\/3 days. And my 2016 will be 367 days.<\/p>\n
Where does all of that time come from & go?<\/p>\n
I haven’t been able to figure it out, but if I do, then I’ll definitely let you know \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The law said you had to wait 1 year. 2000 was a leap year, and so I went down to the DMV, and argued with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-r5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":910,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/02\/10\/books-of-the-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":1679,"position":0},"title":"Book(s) of the month","date":"February 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Having finished two books in January, I'm feeling pretty good about my quest to read one book per month this year. 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