(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Morning Open Thread. This is it. The year I outlive "my Old Man". [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-01-14 I confess. I’ve sort of been obsessing over this now for several years. It’s trivial, even meaningless, but since my father died in 1996 at the relatively young age of 68 and some-odd days, and I just turned 68 in November of 2022, I’ve wanted to know: in number of whole days (counting Dad’s day of birth and day of death as a whole day) how many days did he live? That way I know if I get one more then I will have lived longer than he did, and I will have upstaged him in at least that manner. More confession: while growing up and even quite a ways into my adult years, I was made to feel short in Dad’s eyes. Yes, he was abusive in that way (and in other ways, but I won’t get into that). So, I guess that by outliving him I could sort of do an “in your face” to his memory, but in a gentle way. He did have a lot of good things about him. Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful dialogue in an open forum. This is a post where you can come to share what’s on your mind and stay for the expansion. The diarist is on California time and gets to take a nap when he needs to, or may just wander off and show up again later. So you know, it's a feature, not a bug. Grab your supportive indulgence(s) of choice and join us, please. And if you’re brand new to Morning Open Thread, then Hail and Well Met, new Friend. So, to figure out how many days he lived I did an off-the-cuff calculation: the number of days in his birth year (61days), his number of whole years lived (67 years) and then multiply that by 365 days per year, and then the number of days in his final year of life, which works out by month to be January @31, February @29 (because 1996 was a Leap Year), March, etc. etc. so 129 days. Uh oh. Leap Year. Do I need to factor those in? Yup, turned out I did, because my off-the-cuff calculation told me that if I make it to May 31st of this year I will have lived one day longer than him. But when I factored in all the friggin’ Leap Years it turns out I need to go one more day, to June 1st. I’m fairly certain there is an easier way to figure it, but I needed to get it down on scratch paper to be certain. First, though, what were the Leap Years? Ah thank goodness for the internet. The first two lines cover all I need. Then, my mess of writing it all down to come up with precise figures. But there’s the bottom line. I wake up this year on June 1st, it’s “In your face, Old Man!!!!” Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha. Silly of me, I know. But I’m getting senile I guess. It really shouldn’t matter, but it does matter to me, regardless of how trivial. At least now I’m certain about my target date. I make that, and everything is icing on the cake from then on. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/14/2144485/-Morning-Open-Thread-This-is-it-The-year-I-outlive-my-Old-Man Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/