13.

We do so many things, as a people, that don't make sense, I can't even begin to count.  All the different names for pancakes when just "pancakes" would do just fine.  We aren't Eskimos, and pancakes aren't our version of snow.  Who even says "flapjack" any more?  Just abolish it from the language and make room for other nonsense words we like to use, like inbetween and irregardless. Yet, I digress...

If I ask, how many weeks are in a month, how would you answer?  Well, sense mostly only smart asses read this blog, there is no telling what your smart ass answer might be, but most people who aren't all smart assy say there are 4 weeks in a month.  And a lot of months are, in fact, credited with having 4 weeks.  However, some months are also credited with having 5 weeks.  How many days are in a month?  Well, that can vary.  Some months have 30 days, and some months have 31 days...and then there is the red headed step child of months that has 28, or sometimes 29.  We know that a week has 7 days in it, so to have a month with only 4 weeks in it, we need a 28 day month.  Hello Feb, the red headed step child actually has it right, while all the other months have it wrong.  A 30 day month has more than 4 weeks in it, it has 4 weeks and 2 days, technically.  While NO month could ever have 5 weeks in it, unless that month actually had 35 days in it.  Which no month actually has...  None of this makes any sense at all.  We all count all the months out on our knuckles to figure which ones are the long months.  This makes sense how exactly?

Why don't we cut all the months down to 28 days.  Then we would have 29 days left over.  with the 29 days left over, we make the longest month of the year and we put the new, 13th month in the middle of summer.  Let the kids enjoy the extra day they don't have to be in school.  In fact, that day should be known as "Extra Day" and we should all get it as a day off.  You're welcome.  Fun fact: a year on Earth has a super annoying extra .24 of a day per year to deal with.  I say we continue to add that up, and every 4th year we add a second extra day to the new 13th month that everyone gets to take off from work and school too.  Again, your welcome.  If your upset that you are a leap year baby and don't get to celebrate your birthday on Feb 29th anymore, too bad.  Life isn't fair, and this is one of those times.  However, you're perfectly welcome and in fact, encouraged, to move your bday to Second Extra Day each 4th year, and Extra Day every remaining year.  Extra Day, and Second Extra Day won't actually be on the calendar.  That will make every month start on a Sunday, end on a Saturday, each day of the week has a predetermined date (as in all Mondays can only be on the 2nd, 9th, 16th or 23rd.)  This means that every single month of the year will also have a Friday the 13th in it (PRD!!!  Yeah Baby!!)

Why do we insist on doing yard work during the day in the summer, and not during the dead of night when it is nice and cool?  I don't know anyone who ever caught the skin cancer from a harsh moonburn.  Why do we build schools and only put kids in them less than 1/3 of the hours during the day?  If we had schools going around the clock, we would need 2/3 less school buildings.  Also, while kids are in school during the dead of night, there is no need for air conditioning.  None of it makes any sense...I think we should at least straighten out our calendar.  It is a good first step toward making sense.