Who's the fool, now?

You're back!

Welcome to Day 2 of my experiment. For this issue, it's probably appropriate to spend just a little bit more time laying out what I'll be doing for the next 363 days.

To start with, I should make it clear that yesterday wasn't some April Fools Day prank. I'm still here and you'll be able to find me here everyday until March 31, 2017, unless I throw in the towel or die. I only chose April 1st for a practical reason.

A more appropriate day might've been January 1 but that was the culmination of the holiday season and I wasn't ready to undertake a new challenge like this on that particular day. Besides, if I started any day before March 1, I would've had to write 366 posts because this is a Leap Year. That would just be WAY too much.

Besides, if you take into account the general tone I hope to set in this blog, what better day is there than April Fools Day to start?

That reminds me; do you know why there's such a thing as April Fools Day? A long time ago, some cultures designed their calendar around the cycle of the moon and in such a way that the new year would begin with the arrival of spring. The first new month after the vernal equinox happens to be April. That meant April 1 is the equivalent of New Years Day on those old calendars.

Imagine when people who celebrated New Year on January 1 first encountered people who celebrated it April 1. It's not hard to figure out why they might have been called fools.

Now that I've explained all of that, the only question that remains to be asked is are you a fool for reading this?