When I was 55 I began to lose my mind. It wasn’t anything to worry about, and I’m still functioning well enough years later, but some small items became slippery.

For example, I shampoo my hair every other day. That’s when it started being difficult for me to remember when I did it last: yesterday or the day before? I’m sure the same would have happened if it were medications I had to take every other day: I’d have to get one of those bulky SMTWTFS containers.

It would be so much more convenient if the weeks had an even number of days. That way every other day would always be the same days. In fact, if we went to a 6-day week, every third day would be the same days, too.

What about a 6-day week? 365 divided by 6 is almost 61 weeks (exactly 61 weeks in a leap year). Each month would have five 6-day weeks except for the elastic one.

With a 6-day week, we’d have to lose a day. The obvious choice is Monday. Nobody likes Monday. We can honor the moon another way.

So, keeping everything else unchanged, there would still be 12 months of about 30 days each. The day would naturally remain 24 hours and the year as naturally 365+ days. But instead of about 52 weeks, we’d have about 61. Our week would be 6 days. Our weekend 2.

Then everyone would have a 4-day work week. We’d all work 2/3 time, instead of 5/7. Again, easier math.

This makes sense to me. But some people are attached to the 7-day lunar cycle. Others may have objections of Biblical proportions. I just offer it for consideration, the next time we’re shifting our calendar.