There have been reports of a more than minor problem with the Equinox!
Perhaps the most common complaint in the Equinox is excessive oil consumption. In fact, some people report that Equinox uses nearly a quart of oil per 1,000 miles.
So don't be fooled by Anybody's attempt to hide an ugly fact!!
The equinoxes are nominally on the 21st of the month, but they commonly occur a day early or later than that. Every once in a while, an equinox is off by two days. This was one of those years.
A calendar puzzle, if you have some time to kill:
There are 12 keys in a chromatic scale. 5 black keys and 7 white keys on a piano.
There are 12 months in a year, 5 that are shorter, and 7 that are full length (31 days).
Is it possible to match a note up with January so that the consecutive white and black notes of the scale match up with the longer and shorter months of the calendar?
And if the answer is yes, what key is the calendar in? (That is, what note matches up with January)?
I don't remember much about determining what key exactly, but doing the knuckle test (touching knuckles to remember which months are long and short) makes me think that B and C, the two white notes together on the keyboard, would account for there being a correlation. So, using the knuckles, July and August might be the two white notes without a black key between them? That's probably as far as I'm going to get.
(I'm not going to look it up to see if I am on track to ruin the fun.)
So, Jan. would be F? Is that correct? I guessed wrong thinking it was C. I don't remember enough from my old piano lesson days to see how that relates to what key the calendar is in though.
It is technically not in any key, since all 12 notes are used the same amount, which is why I defined what I meant by "key" - what note lines up with January.
No deeper meaning, just pure coincidence that the chromatic scale and longer/shorter months can be aligned.