Last Thursday, January 23rd, I was in a store when I overheard a customer greeting the clerk with a “Happy New Year.” I was a bit surprised. I think the latest I’ve ever wished anyone a happy new year was around the 8th, to classmates in university, and by then I thought it might have been too late to say that.

It really doesn’t matter when you are wishing me a happy rest of the year. Do it in April if you feel like it, because I may still be struggling with things that happened last year and I might want to get a fresh start anytime, not just when the calendar decides it. It may renew my hope in a change for the better.

I’ll take scraps of hope even from technology. There’s a paragraph in a previous post from this blog I wasn’t really happy with. When I decided to take some action about it, I wasn’t feeling inspired enough to rewrite it, so I just unpublished the entry and saved it as a draft until this morning.

Aside from saving it as a draft, I had another option to leave that post on hold: scheduling it for later, so I would have enough time to edit it. Two days later might have been enough, but I decided to schedule it for the year 2500, just to see if I could. Surprisingly, WordPress allowed it. I went with that option in the end. Now I have 475 years to edit the post, in case I don’t find the inspiration tomorrow, or the next day, or the next… I found it funny, and I’m grateful for the confidence this feature assumes. That this blog, or the internet (or humanity), is going to be around in the year 2500. Out of curiosity, I checked how far WordPress would let me push the date, and it turns out the latest I can schedule a post is December 31, 9999. So it seems like the Y10K problem is going to be a thing.