Leap Year: a day in error.

I know I wasn’t the only one that woke up last Friday morning with an odd feeling in the back of my mind. I saw it all over the morning news, confirming that today doesn’t really exist. It’s an anomaly, a once-every-four-years chance to break free from normality and quite possibly, every existing responsibility. Fat chance!

Normal day: Get up, go to work. Okay.

But then the troublesome phone calls started pouring in all over the country from concerned Housing Authorities. We were going crazy trying to figure out why they were receiving error messages when trying to navigate through their portals on the site. Our Gosection8 Programming Team investigated and brainstormed. Nothing was wrong with the codes, the links, the very structure that makes our site the best site it can be. We weren’t responsible. Then who was?

Microsoft. That’s who!

You would think that the smartest people on the planet (excluding the Gosection8 Team and all of you reading this, of course!) would be in favor of yielding to the ever-sensitive schedule of the seasons, stars and the universe, of all other things! (FYI: Leap year was created to accommodate the length of the solar year, which is slightly less than 365¼ days—by about 11 minutes. To compensate for this discrepancy, the leap year is omitted three times every four hundred years.)

Server errors, glitches, maladies, inefficiencies- in the system we rely on, all the cause for the disruption on this day, that we all just wanted to go away, anyway!

Well, they have four more years to get it right. We will see.