Valentine’s Day is over. It is my hope that yours was a good one. Especially that it was better than the one Saint Valentine got for encouraging young lovers. He was executed for his efforts. The best thing about that was he signed his good bye note “from your Valentine”, of course it was in Latin.

Now, that was quite a bit less terrible than the Valentine message that Al Capone sent to Bugs Moran’s gang in the famous Valentine’s Day Massacre. That was in 1929 and the best thing to come out of that was it started the Federal folks going after Al Capone. So a little of the gangsterism of those days was cleaned up. Personally, I like the way we celebrate today.

That day is probably the best part of our most unusual month of the year. In a normal year like this one, that has 365 days February has an even four weeks or 28 days. This of course means that in the first 28 days of March the date and the day are the same. This year the first is a Sunday for both months and so on. After the 28th day, March has three more days.

After that, the first day of the month jumps around. So it goes year after year and it is jumbled a little more because in leap year March and February don’t share the same coordination of day and date. That got me to thinking, how often does a year have exactly the same day and date all year.

Of course there are seven days that can be New Year’s Day. Leap year causes that day to jump every four years, so it is not just a one through seven repetition kind of succession. The trick is to figure out how many times in a century will there be a calendar that is the same as the calendar for 2015 for each day.

So I checked the 20th century. It turns out there were eleven years that had exactly the same calendar as 2015. Then just for grabs, I checked the 21st century also and it turned out that it will have eleven also. You can check on other centuries if you want but that convinced me.

Now is that important? I sincerely doubt it is. I don’t even think it was urgent. However, I did have a little fun looking it up. Important of course means what is important to you.

We are told that Mozart thought writing music was important. He did it all the time. Music lovers are grateful for his music. Even though he died at quite an early age he wrote a prodigious amount of music. It has been calculated that if you played all of his published music back to back without interruption it would take eight days to play it all. I am told I could probably talk that long without saying anything important, but then, that depends on what is important doesn’t it?