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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nEvery month has its ups and downs, but unless you\u2019re a Valentine\u2019s Day or Groundhog fanatic, February is pretty much an awful month. The weather is always pretty crappy, it\u2019s name is hard to spell, unless you\u2019re a sports fan that likes basketball, after the Super Bowl, you\u2019re out of luck in February, and on average, February is the snowiest month in the United States according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But enough complaining \u2014 at least February has National Drink Wine Day and National Margarita Day \u2014 making it officially a good month for drinking. Tomorrow is March, and the beginning of an eleven month stretch of months without a February.
We\u2019re still dealing with COVID issues, but the weather is getting better and the days are getting longer and we\u2019ve got daylight saving coming up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So here we go with the third month of the year, or if you\u2019re really old, like born before 150 B.C., it\u2019d be the first month. According to the old Roman calendars, a year was ten months long, beginning with March and ending in December. I\u2019ve mentioned before that originally, January and February didn\u2019t even deserve a spot on the calendar \u2014 they were just lumped together and called \u201cwinter.\u201d That still appeals to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But in addition to better weather and more daylight, I like some other things about March \u2014 even though I\u2019m not particularly a basketball fan, I look forward to March Madness, the college basketball tournament. I\u2019m not sure where I read this, but the number of vasectomies surges by 50 percent during the first week of March Madness!! Supposedly the reason is that patients typically need at least a day with ice to keep swelling down, so if they\u2019re going to spend a whole day doing nothing, it\u2019s not hard to figure that they\u2019d want to do it on a day they\u2019d like to be sitting from of the television watching basketball. I guess this falls into the category of \u201cbelieve it or don\u2019t\u201d but it\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While we\u2019re on the subject of strange\/interesting things, on the 1st of March, 2007, a detachment of 170 Swiss infantrymen accidentally invaded neighboring Liechtenstein when they got lost on a training mission. Luckily, after explaining the mistake to Liechtenstein, the Swiss army was given directions and returned home safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know May has Cinco De Mayo Day, but March has Cinco De. Marcho – a 12-day drinking regimen for anyone that wishes to \u201ctrain one\u2019s liver for the closing ceremonies on St. Patrick\u2019s Day.\u201d And we can all look forward to Pi Day, St. Patrick\u2019s Day and the Vernal Equinox \u2014 and of course, we can\u2019t forget (even if we\u2019d like to) the day in March that Twitter was founded \u2014 March 21, if you\u2019re interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the saying goes, March comes \u201cin like a lion, out like a lamb\u201d \u2014 or \u2014 the other way around. No matter what tomorrow brings, it\u2019s March \u2014 not February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hey February, I can\u2019t say it\u2019s been a pleasure, but I\u2019m ready to move on. I must confess that February brought back a little bit longer days, but I\u2019m ready to say farewell to the month with my annual \u201cgood … Continue reading