The coming issue of the City Paper will have an issue date of Feb. 29. There hasn’t been a Friday, Feb. 29, since 1980, and there won’t be another one until 2036. Enjoy this instant collector’s edition!

I’m going on a beach getaway this weekend. Not to the Bahamas or Mexico or anywhere warm. Oh no. This trip tops all those. We’re going to off-season Rehoboth. I haven’t checked the weather, but I’m pretty sure mother nature will offer some of the following: sleet, hail, snow, or maybe just sideways rain blowing little grains of sand into our faces. It will be a lovely, much-needed chance to stay inside for two straight days. And, beat my boyfriend at Scrabble. My brainy mom, who hates to see me win, told me to bring a spatial game as well, since the boyfriend is a scientist and not a writer. (Kisses, Mom. I know it just makes me stronger.)

Of course he owns said spatial game. It’s called Mastermind. It’s sort of like Battle Ship, but harder, with little colored pegs in an invisible order. In a practice round, I clung briefly to a hopefully thin disadvantage, then went down, down, down in defeat. I have not been practicing online at work.

Anyway, since Scrabble is more a test of mathy skills (shuffling anagrams) than a composition assignment, and since I am an evil genius at Scrabble, there may be hope for me yet. Then again, I may have just talked myself up a bit too much.

In this week’s District Line story “Think Locally, Hire Regionally,” I reported how D.C. workers have so far struck out in the construction of the new baseball stadium. But local employment numbers are not quite as bad as a task force set up to monitor them at first believed.

Due to a math snafu on the part of the stadium project labor agreement task force, I wrote that city workers have performed 23 percent of journeyman hours at the stadium. The labor agreement set the goal at 50 percent. In fact, District workers have performed 32 percent of those hours.

The shaky math was discovered when an aide to At-Large Councilmember Kwame Brown had a go at the numbers. It seems the task force had been entering the wrong category of numbers into its equation since construction began.

Courtland Cox, D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission director for local, small, and disadvantaged business development, is happy about the jump but says it’s still not good enough for District workers. He expects the number to rise as construction continues.