so on leap day i'm actually thinking about leap second, which was supposed to kick in maybe 2020, i'm not sure, but it was in the news a couple of months ago when my news class started, and we caught it for just a day or two. seems all these scientists got together, and the americans and some of the high-tech people were pointing out that adjusting the world's clocks, digitalized as they are, would be an enormous hassle when that leap second kicked in, and would be like y2k, it would shut all the computers and make them unfunctioning, and what was the point of that leap second if you only had one every couple hundred years or so. we could go a few go-rounds without it, and nobody would know the difference, and we'd all go our merry way.

but the leap second had its defenders, and pretty soon, the only thing they could agree on was to postpone the decision to the next great meeting of scientists, which they did, so now the leap second's fate hangs in the balance, it's out there, it might happen, or it might not.

my wife wrote this book on stalking, and academic book, but i am to read it because this one producer called her and wanted her to make a movie out of it. and she agreed, and wrote a screen play, and he liked the idea, and has given us a green light. i could be in the screenwriting business pretty soon here. and i was just getting used to the poetry idea. but hey, you take what you can get.

and we go rolling into march, tornado season, last night, about 4:30 am, we all went down in the shelter, the four of us, and sat there until we knew the tornado had passed, but the little boys never did get back to sleep, and neither did i, and here i am even now. turns out the tornado wiped out the saline county town of harrisburg, a place that i'm especially attached to, about two towns over. i don't know so many people there though i do remember a saline county trial where i sat on a jury and saw a long line of saline county emergency and medical personnel. they're out there now; six died in the tornado, they say, and it wasn't all that big of a town to begin with. two towns over from here, on the road that cuts right through southern illinois. one wonders why these tornados just choose to roost where they do. what's up with that? not sure, but it doesn't matter. i'm turning in, see if i can get some sleep, before that whole circus starts up again...