Happy 10th Birthday! While all your old school classmates are turning 40 this year… you my February 29, 1968 friend… are celebrating your 10th birthday tomorrow. Or at least that what you can tell others if they try to give you any of those “Over the Hill” birthday gifts.

Now for you leaplings born in 1988 who are desperately waiting for your 21st birthday next year, celebrating the fact that this is only your 2nd birthday might not be as much fun. But hey – maybe it’s like looking young – you’ll appreciate it when you’re older.

One old tradition said that Feb 29 was the one day that women were allowed to ask men to marry them – and the men could not refuse. Maybe that’s why those terrible high school Sadie Hawkins Day dances were always held in February.

A friend of mine wants to start a new leap year tradition. He said that he’s not working on Friday – that his salary is the same as it was last year with only 365 days in it and that he’s not working an extra day for free.

Sounds reasonable to me. So what do you say – start a little revolution and not go to work tomorrow? I think it’s supposed to be another sunny day…

Who’s with me?!?