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A recent Texas appeals court decision calls to mind an oft-quoted remark by Albert Einstein: “Many of the things you can count, don’t count.” Commentators have speculated that he meant in science you can calculate distance, speed, time, energy, etc., but you can't count or measure love, freedom, happiness – the truly meaningful things in life. In setting aside a civil penalty judgment and an award of attorney’s fees, the appellate panel ruled that the State could not simply add up the calendar days in a more-than-ten-year span to prove that an offender continuously violated the law during that time period. Many of those days possibly don’t count.