day no. 14,764: happy birthday, Paige!

We count the years by how long it takes the earth to orbit the sun. When it began and what exact year that was, we do not know precisely, but we know from any fixed day, a year later, we will be back where we were. So wherever the earth was at on March 26, 1986, it is at that same place again and has just completed its 33rd leg of that particular journey. You have now completed 33 orbits around the sun and spun around 12,054 times on the earth. 12,054 lunch hours, 33 Easters. It's a good ride.