That’s a good point, Lou. As I age it seems like the years start to fly by in a steady drumbeat of routine if I’m not careful. To put it in computer terms: if all the days are almost the same, efficient but lossy compression will just store one day and a counter.

Getting out of my happy but repetitive routine seems to disrupt that compression and avoid collapsing all the days down into a rather blurry single image. I think I’ve taken this analogy about as far as it can go 😉