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Different ways of counting age are weird.
May. 1st, 2025 07:10 am Today is the 1st of May, so the birthday of the SCA, which is just starting Anno Societas 60. The SCA started in 1966, and, counting 1 May 1966 to 1 May 1967 as year 1 of the Society, makes the year that starts today year 60.
Which is all well and fine, except that I was also born in 1966, and, given that humans start with a year 0 and don't become a year old till after they have experienced an entire year, plus it isn't December yet, means that I am "only" 58, and I have more than a year and a half before I need to decide what to do to celebrate my 60th birthday. Yet, knowing that the SCA and I started in the same year, and seeing that zero on the end of the SCA year, has me realising that my next zero year is sooner than I think, and a bigger number than I expect it to be...
Which is all well and fine, except that I was also born in 1966, and, given that humans start with a year 0 and don't become a year old till after they have experienced an entire year, plus it isn't December yet, means that I am "only" 58, and I have more than a year and a half before I need to decide what to do to celebrate my 60th birthday. Yet, knowing that the SCA and I started in the same year, and seeing that zero on the end of the SCA year, has me realising that my next zero year is sooner than I think, and a bigger number than I expect it to be...