Take a big leap

But look before you do -- a day like today comes every four years

By ANDREW GUY JR.
Houston Chronicle

Leap year.

Leap year day.

Tacked on every four years.

Consider today an extra day to use for something meaningful. An extra day to do -- or begin to do -- something on your list of "things I want to do in my lifetime."

Who doesn't wish for more time, one more day to complete one more task?

Well, here it is.

Carpe diem and all that.

How special is leap year?

So special that tiny Anthony, Texas, sets aside an entire weekend to celebrate it. So special that an old Scottish legend states that only on this day is it proper for a woman to propose marriage to a man. So special that it inspired a man-chasing cartoon character named Sadie Hawkins, who in turn inspired a high school dance to which the girls invite the boys.

So special that it can't be wasted.

Do something.

Not sure what?

Keep reading.

Science sync

First, a bit of science.

Leap year is, essentially, a correction. To keep the calendar synchronized with the seasons (the position of the sun in the sky), an extra day is added every four years.

Without the extra day, the seasons would eventually start turning out of time.

Spring would start occurring in February, then in January, then in December. (Don't dismiss winter just yet. It would take centuries for this to actually occur.)

"It's a calendar fix," said Carolyn Sumners, director of physical sciences and youth education at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. "Our astronomical timekeeping devices do not sync perfectly all the time."

"The Earth does not turn the exact number of times we need to get the years straight, so we have to mess around with the days to get the days right."

The extra day holds special meaning for her. She and her husband, Houston artist Gary Young, married on the day in 1984.

"We were in love. It was a leap year. What can I say?" Sumners laughed. "I'm an astronomer, and he's an artist, so we wanted to do something special.

Plus it's leap year. You're supposed to take chances."
There are advantages to being married on this day.

Anniversaries are harder to forget.

So what do they tell people who ask how long they've been married?

"We say we're celebrating our fifth anniversary," Sumners said. "Then, if they look at our (18-year-old) son Scott and say,`Yeah, right,' we'll tell them we've been married for 20 years but celebrating our fifth real anniversary."

Awwwwwwwwww!

Rapper Ja Rule celebrates his birthday today. So do actor Antonio Sabato Jr. and motivational speaker Tony Robbins.

Karl Baer, the famed embryologist who discovered that mammals develop from eggs, was a leap-day baby, and so was Stanley Swash, one of the first CEOs of the Woolworth's chain.

But wait.

It would be too easy to talk about leap-day babies and how their birthdays are only every four years and how the man born in 1960 isn't 44 but really 11 and his wife pipes in, "But he acts like he's 11" and everyone laughs.

Oh, how funny!

Too easy.

But we're going to do it anyway.

If we don't, we're likely to get an earful from the 3,800 residents of Anthony, who are wrapping up their Fifth Quadrennial World Wide Leap Year Festival.

Anthony -- propped halfway between El Paso and Las Cruces, N.M. -- bills itself as the Leap Year Capital of the World and Home of the World Wide Leap Year Birthday Club.

"It gives everybody in the world an extra day," said festival organizer Mary Ann Brown. "That in itself says it should be recognized."

Brown, who turns 18 or 72 today, has given some throught to the practical implications of Feb. 29.

"People who are on salaries work one more day that month for nothing. But people who are wage workers get an extra day's pay that year," Brown said. "The amount of interest that banks make by having an extra day per year is probably a fabulous figure."

And the amount of fun to be had today is fabulous, too.

Be adventurous
Don't be lame.

Avoid declaring, "I'm finally going to clean out that garage!"

Train for something. Always wanted to ride the MS150? Hop on your bike right now. Memorial Park, Hermann Park and most of the city's bayous have bike trails.

Several health clubs offer training for the event, including classes on cycling and spinning. A list can be found at www.ms150.org.

The downtown YMCA has cycling classes Mondays-Thursdays, 5:15 a.m.-5:30 p.m. The late class also offers spinning.

(For information, go to www.ymcahouston.org or call 713-758-9226.)

The same thing applies if you've always wanted to run a marathon. Get on your shoes and go jogging. Now.

(For info on training programs, check with the HP Houston Marathon at www.hphoustonmarathon.com or with Houston Fit at www.houstonfit.com.)

Don't want to run?

Take a hike.

Houston has some nice ones -- more if you venture outside into the metro area. It can be as simple as taking a stroll along a bayou or as adventurous as hiking in the Texas Hill Country.

Huntsville State Park, about an hour north of Houston, offers great trails for both hiking and running. (Contact: www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/huntsvil/ or 936-295-5644)

Then there's the granddaddy of Texana hiking, Big Bend National Park. The 801,000-acre park in West Texas is 108 miles south of Alpine. (Contact: www.nps.gov/bibe or 432-477-2251)

Not into woods, trees and wide-open spaces?

Surf. About an hour south of Houston lies a big, big body of water. Granted, the waves in Galveston aren't as big as those in Hawaii or Southern California, but they are a lot closer..

The island has several surf shops. Surf Specialties, on the seawall, offers boards and advice. (Contact: www.surfspecialties.com or 409-763-1559)

Prefer to sail the open winds, your hair billowing, your lips quivering?

Take to the air.

One popular place to do this is AstroWorld, which opens Saturday. Last year nearly 8,000 park visitors tried the Barnstormer, which swings riders 153 feet into the air, combining elements of sky diving, hang gliding and free flight. (Contact: www.sixflagshouston.com)

Or try sky diving.

Skydive Spaceland, 30 minutes south of downtown Houston, offers classes and training. Facilities include a 14,000-square-foot hangar, a 2,600-square-foot air-conditioned packing area, training rooms, a video production room, a pro shop, restrooms, showers and a restaurant. (Contact: www.skydivespaceland.com)

The Texas Skydiving Center in Austin is open seven days a week and offers classes, training and certification in sky diving. (Contact: www.austinskydiving.com or 979-773-9100)


Conquer your fears
We're all afraid of something.

Spiders. Rats. Heights. Angelina Jolie's lips.

Time to acknowledge our fears.

And get over them.

Afraid of heights? Go to the observation deck of a tall building. Two of the most impressive are at 75-story JP Morgan Chase Tower at 600 Travis downtown and at the 60-story Williams Tower, 2800 Post Oak Blvd. near the Galleria.

The Chase observation deck is on the 60th floor and provides a nice overview of downtown and the surrounding areas.

The tower was drawn to be 80 stories tall, but that plan was scrapped because of concerns about Hobby Airport flight paths.

Admission to the observation deck, which is open daily except Sundays, is free.

Williams Tower has an observation deck on the 51st floor.

Still feeling vertically challenged?

Not sold on observation decks? Still terrified of heights but want to deal with your fear of them?

Ride a ferris wheel. Maybe you've always wanted to ride one but never got around to it -- or never worked up the nerve.


Tilman Fertitta's Downtown Aquarium has one of the city's most talked-about ferris wheels.

Situated in the heart of the Theater District, the ride is lined in blue neon lights and rises 100 feet. As you approach downtown on Interstate 45 southbound, the image of a bright blue spider spins against the skyline. Critics say the contraption is tacky, a garish spot in an otherwise artsy district.

We say ... who cares?

Go ride it.

Some people don't want to soar. They'd rather float. Whether in the Gulf of Mexico or a community or private swimming pool, swimming is a popular pastime.

For those who can.

Some of us can't.

Dozens of swimming classes are offered all over town.

Leisure Learning Unlimited, for example, has classes for adult beginners in which the emphasis is on "front and back floating, breathing, beginning front crawl, elementary backstroke, back crawl, sidestroke, breast stroke and personal water safety." Intermediate classes focus on more advanced strokes, flip turns and racing dives. (Contact: www.llu.com or 713-529-4414)

The YMCA also offers classes at its branches. (Contact: www.ymcahouston.org)


Alter your appearance
Want a tattoo but don't want the permanent mark? Get a small one you can hide with clothing, or a temporary one.

If you've always wanted to get something other than your ear pierced, do your research. The Association of Professional Piercers offers tips, including what to look for in a piercer, and even provides a Piercee's Bill of Rights on its Web site, www.safepiercing.org..

More importantly, local piercers say, do some soul searching first.

"Think about it," said Bryiah Dailey, owner of Taurian Piercing & Metals. "Please. That's important. People come in here all ready to do it, but when you get them back there on the table, they're like, `Wait, wait, wait.'

"People shouldn't do it on a whim and just because their friends are doing it. It takes a bit of a commitment."

It also takes about eight weeks to heal, Dailey said.

Afraid of the needle?

There are other ways to change your looks.

Try a new hairstyle.

Or don't comb your hair at all.

Look at Carrot Top.

And Don King.

To them, every day is leap year day.


Indulge yourself
Who says this day has to be all about self-actualization?

Watch Cheaters (KNWS, Channel 51, at 7 p.m.).

Devour a box of Krispy Kremes. Eat carbs.

Buy yourself roses. Get a pedicure.

Get your car detailed. It's not cheap -- most jobs start at $100 -- but having your car detailed can have practical advantages.

"People consider it an extravagance, but a car is usually the second-biggest investment people can make," said Clayton Clark, vice president of Houston's Bubbles Car Wash chain. "The better off they maintain their car, the better the resale value and the more they'll get out of it."

At Bubbles the range is from $100, to get the interior detailed and washed, to $300, for the full interior and exterior treatment.

"It's funny, because a lot of people, after they've gotten their cars detailed, say they're going to keep it longer," Clark said. "It may seem expensive, but it's worth it."


Relive your childhood
Always wanted to tap dance?

Here is your chance.

The Houston Metropolitian Dance Company offers first-rate tap-dancing classes for teens and adults. (Contact: www.houstonmetdance.com or 713-522-6375)

Houston City Dance Studio has classes in everything from tap to ballet. (Contact: www.houstoncitydance.com or 713-529-6100)


Help someone else
Volunteer.

Volunteer Houston, a non-profit, lists dozens of opportunities to help others. (Contact: www.volunteerhouston.org or 713-965-0031)

Another well-known nonprofit, Star of Hope, also regularly needs volunteers. (Contact: www.sohmission.org/index.html or 713-748-0700)

Whatever you do today, make it count. Enrich your life.

Remember: This day is a gift.

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In today's Houston Chronicle -

Feb. 26, 2004, 4:35PM

Ego blow pushed Jen Chapin into singing career
By DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK -- With an Ivy League education and experience as a teacher and hunger activist, a career in music wasn't necessarily Jen Chapin's first choice.
Associated Press
Jen Chapin released her debut Linger, a singer-songwriter set influenced by jazz and soul, this month.


Then the funk-inspired party band that she sang with dumped her, and the rejection stung far more than she anticipated.

"I'd always been involved in music as a hobby and I just realized it was more crucial to my life than that," she said. "I didn't want to be that dispensable. It made me dig in and decide to study music a bit more."

Chapin, 32, released her debut CD Linger, a singer-songwriter set influenced by jazz and soul, this month. The disc's title comes from Little Hours, its first song and most memorable melody, about resisting the urge to hurry through life.

It's an appropriate philosophical statement for Chapin, said John Scher, veteran concert promoter and co-owner of Chapin's label, Hybrid Recordings.

"Reluctant pop star is the wrong word," he said. "But she's taken her time and she's measured what she wants to do with her life more than any other musician I've ever seen."

That ultimately gives her songs a depth of experience that younger artists can't match. Chapin has the chance to be the type of songwriter that fans can grow with over time, Scher said.

Along with love songs, Chapin sings about soulless teenage boys, a childhood friend who died at the World Trade Center and the vastness of her adopted New York City. In Passive People, she gently prods a disengaged citizenry to get involved in their country.

Chapin's dad, the late folk singer Harry Chapin, would have loved that song. Chapin heads the board of directors for World Hunger Year, a non-profit organization founded by her father.

Although Chapin used one of her father's old guitars on Linger, he had less to do with her musical upbringing than her older brothers' disco records. Harry Chapin died in a car accident in 1981, before his daughter became a teenager.

The biggest advantage to growing up in a musical family -- uncle Tom Chapin is a successful singer of children's songs -- is an acceptance of being an artist and a certain fearlessness, she said.

"There's a small, but significant, group of people across the country and abroad who are sort of rooting for me, fans of my dad's," she said.

"I'll do a show in a coffee house before 20 people, and 15 of them will be Harry Chapin fans," she said. "I'm really looking forward to that changing, but that's the way it's been so far. I really can't complain; it's part of who I am."

If her dad was still alive, Chapin believes she probably wouldn't be a musician.

"He would have been too much in my face," she said with a chuckle. "That was his personality. He would have been like, `Go, Jen!'"

Chapin is friendly but guarded. It's only after extensive discussion about the prominent role of the bass guitar in her music does she let slip that the bass player, Stephan Crump, is also her husband.

During the years she methodically developed her music, Chapin also created, and taught in Brooklyn, a curriculum about black music and its role in history.

Her music marries those interests with a singer-songwriter sensibility.

"I've always loved that acoustic thing, where you get to create something out of silence, out of tension," she said.

The writing process terrifies her, she said, "because I'm still not completely believing that I'm getting away with it. I haven't done any serious collaborations. I want a song to be totally my own. That's sort of frowned upon in the songwriting world, where there is a high value placed on collaborations and being open to different ideas."

That's one key difference between her and a fellow musical traveler, Norah Jones, who uses her own songs, songs from her band and covers. Chapin and Jones come from the same New York music scene, and the same drummer played on both of their debuts.

While Jones' music may be a reference point for some fans, Chapin cautions against a comparison.

"Her (debut CD) you could put it on, leave it on, have dinner," she said. "I think mine is a little more bumpy, so I don't know if it's going to hit the same sweet spot. I think it's got more claws or something."

One of the most personal, and specific, songs on Chapin's CD is Hurry Up Sky, dedicated to her friend, Kristy Ryan, who worked on the 104th floor of the North tower at the World Trade Center.

Chapin spent much of her time the weeks after the terrorist attack with Ryan's family; she played in a high school band with Ryan's widower.

Now, she said she feels almost "painfully distant" from the song, largely because the spirit of community the tragedy fostered is gone. "It was a sacred time," she said. "It was a time of possibilities."

"I don't think about Kristy every day, like I used to," she said. "When I sing that song, that's my time. That's my prayer. I get to picture her and keep her alive for three and a half minutes."

The song, and Chapin's album, may never have happened if it hadn't been for that old band that decided to break up, then reform without her. It was ultimately a motivator.

"I pity the people who have never had the blow to the ego, who have never been dumped," she said.

This site looks hilarious! Here's an excerpt -
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Feb. 18, 2004, 5:04PM

'Angel' to bow out with a proper send-off
By KATE O'HARE
Copyright 2004 Zap2it.com
LOS ANGELES -- The WB has decided that this fifth season of Angel will be its last.

"It's official enough to know it's real," said David Greenwalt, who created the series with Joss Whedon. "I haven't talked to anybody at the network or the studio, but I can tell you that it makes Mr. Whedon and myself very sad, that we wish it had kept going and we thought it was only getting better."

It's the network's regard for the show that prompted it to give the producers an early enough heads-up for a proper send-off at the end of the season.

"Like some of the great series that are leaving the air this year, including Frasier and Friends, the cast, crew, writers and producers of Angel deserve to be able to wrap up the series in a way befitting a classic television series, and that is why we went to Joss to let him know that this would be the last year of the series on the WB," the network said in a statement. "We have discussed continuing the Angel legacy with special movie events next year, which is still on the table."

Tonight, Angel airs one of its most innovative episodes, called "Smile Time." Written and directed by Ben Edlund (The Tick), and based on an idea by Whedon, it sees the show's title character, a crusading vampire with a soul, forced to fight evil after being transformed into a walking puppet.

"It's so brilliant," Greenwalt said. "I just love it. It's one of the finest pieces of filmmaking I've ever seen. It just cracked me up. It's so ridiculous and silly, and yet there's all this heartfelt stuff in it. It's just quintessential Whedon.

"But wait until you see the episode that follows it in terms of abject heartbreak. It's just searing."

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A statement from The WB:
For the last seven years Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have been cornerstones of our network. The sum total of the work done on those shows has produced some of the proudest moments in our history. Like some of the great series that are leaving the air this year, including Frasier and Friends, the cast, crew, writers and producers of Angel deserve to be able to wrap up the series in a way befitting a classic television series and that is why we went to Joss to let him know that this would be the last year of the series on The WB. We have discussed continuing the Angel legacy with special movie events next year, which is still on the table. In a perfect world, all of these details would be completed before this information went to the press so that we could be definitive about the show's ongoing future. But in any case, we did not want to contemplate this being the last year of Angel without giving the show the option of crafting their own destiny for this character and for this series. David Boreanaz continues to be one of the finest, classiest and friendliest actors we have had the pleasure to work with and we hope that the relationship furthers from here. The same can be said for all the actors and producers on the show.
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The "F' word...

There are only eleven times in history where the "F" word has been considered acceptable for use. They are as follows:

11. "What the @#$% do you mean we are sinking?"
-- Capt. E.J. Smith of HMS Titanic,
1912

10. "What the @#$% was that?"
- Mayor Of Hiroshima, 1945

9. "Where did all those @#$%ing Indians come
from?"
- Custer, 1877

8. "Any @#$%ing idiot could understand that."
- Einstein, 1938

7. "It does so @#$%ing look like her!"
- Picasso, 1926

6. "How the @#$% did you work that out?"
- Pythagoras, 126 BC

5. "You want WHAT on the @#$%ing ceiling?"
- Michelangelo, 1566

4. "Where the @#$% are we?"
- Amelia Earhart, 1937

3. "Scattered @#$%ing showers....My ass!"
- Noah, 4314 BC

2. "Aw c'mon. Who the @#$% is going to find out?"
- Bill Clinton, 1999

and a drum roll....................


1. "Geez, I didn't think they'd get this @%#*^ing mad."
- Sadaam Hussein, 2003

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