It’s all in the numbers. Who doesn’t enjoy a date with a good number? Was your date a good number? That’s what we get next week with New Year’s Day, always a 1-1. Christmas Day was a good number, 12-25-24, but a greater date will be 12-25-25.
On Christmas Day, we talked to friends visiting, who felt they had won a good date. They had found Christmas reservations for his 65th birthday at The Gasparilla Inn, and brought the family. They had great fun at his 60th, and wanted something special for 65.
They had even won a slot for golf; he called the number for reservations few times and got a no, but then found a time in the morning. Persistence can almost always change our numbers. He was born on the 25th of December, as were a few others on this island.
It is a special club, those December 25 people, as you get to share your birthday with the chosen one who changed the trajectory of the world, for billions, for eternity. We are in this “numbers” phase because The Gasparilla Inn, which drives much of the commerce cycle on the island, decided that it would fully open at 12 noon, on 12-12-24. The stating of a date, and number, made it memorable.
Put another few numbers in $$ on the City Ledger. Dad will pay up when it’s time to head north. Some societies, the anthropologists remind us, are slaves to a mechanical or digital clock on base 12, and will tell us that is some sort of Western construct, this idea of being on time.
That may be technically true, but when the .
