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Happy April! Thursday was the first of the new month, a day beloved by practical jokers and tricksters the world over, as April Fools Day is everyone's annual opportunity to pull their favorite pranks on a (semi) unsuspecting public, which is considerably more tolerant than usual. I admit that I was a little too busy catching up at work to prey on the gullibility of my colleagues, and no one played any tricks on me either, so we certainly did not take advantage of all the day has to offer in the way of entertainment value. However, the first was also Maundy Thursday, and of course, one wants to be careful about doing things that are too outrageous during Holy Week, heaven knows. The company where Bill works is closed on Good Friday, so I take the day off as well, and since this wasn't a week that we were doing time cards at the hospital, it made it a day that I could take off with unfettered serenity. It turned out to be a beautiful day, which has been rare enough to be a special treat around here, so either our old nemesis Comrade Mischka has turned over a new leaf (NYET!) or someone's practical joke was sabotaging the Kremlin's infernal weather machine. I'm sure we'll find out soon enough, because I already took the heaters out of the birdbaths, and I'm bracing for late freak blizzards in April, so if they don't happen, I'm thinking it would be a long Siberian winter for whoever put the whoopee cushion on the Comrade's chair. Also in the realm of notable dates and times, probably no one remembers that this would have been the weekend of the Daylight Saving Time switch-over under the old schedule, and why would they? Well, only someone with outmoded technology that was configured to automatically adjust for DST twice a year, but now does it three weeks too late or too early, since the schedule has been changed but the old software hasn't been. This happened to me all the time with my old computer at work, which was running Windows 2000NT, and you just had to...
