Monday

[susandennis]

April Fools is not my favorite day/past time, it's annoying but it's harmless and it's only a day. I'm trying to get more zen about a lot of this shit. Boston Strong, Oso Strong, 12th Man... Every news story is instantly morphed into a cause or a calling.  People jump on bandwagons so fast that I'm really sorry I didn't start investing in bandwagons long ago. But, if it helps people get through the day to play a prank, sympathize loudly with the group, over-enthuse about whatever, then no biggie. I can turn off the TV or change the channel, I can go to a different web page or scroll by the conversation. There's enough room for me and everyone else's opinion and my getting all bitching about it isn't really annoying much of anyone but me.  So...  I am trying to just let people be people and dodge my way around their drama.

Today starts baseball season. The Mariners have sucked for many years. I mean really really sucked. In past years, sports writers and pundits have started out the season expressing great optimism. And usually by May, all our hopes are killed and we just sigh. But, this year, they are mostly all saying that we don't have a prayer of any kind of a decent year. Nice, eh? Maybe they figure by lowering our expectations, we won't be disappointed and, should a miracle happen, we'll be delighted. Who knows. What I do know is that from now through September, we'll have baseball nearly every day and I'm totally ok with that.

I think today I'll be doing some website work. susandennis.com is just a mess of broken links, broken images and bad styling. There isn't much there any more but I think I can and should at least tidy up what is.

And that's about it for plans. At least for today.

Comments

[mckavian.livejournal.com]

I stopped doing things for April Fools when I looked back and saw the things I was doing was not funny, I was being mean.

So, I have skipped over it for the last few years.

[susandennis]

What a nifty self discovery! Good job.

[mckavian.livejournal.com]

Nifty? Try mortifying.

No, I hurt several people that I really shouldn't have. So, I stopped.

[susandennis]

No No... I mean nifty that you realized it and stopped before you hurt more. Really. Lots of people never stop to even consider what they are doing much less change it.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping the Mariners go to the Super Bowl!

My Grandma D, my favorite person in the world, died on April Fool's Day when I was 10. The day stopped being funny to me then.

[susandennis]

YES on the Mariners and SuperBowl. The world series is what every other baseball team does... Let's be diff!!

Happily April 2 will be here soon.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

I just hate all the obvious jokes and pranks people try to play. It's dumb. :)

[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

I have never liked pranks simply because they humiliate people and make them look foolish. And then if the person is upset, they are accused of not having a sense of humor.

No thanks.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

This, yep. I fell for a joke this morning, made a post to a comm to inform others about a "mistake" in a site, and ended up looking like a fool.

This is a fun holiday how?

[lilliane.livejournal.com]

I might be missing something here, but I just wanted to point out that tomorrow is actually April 1st, and not today, so you still have to endure tomorrow.

April Fool's Day is to some people as Friday the 13th is to others. I am planning on staying in this year, ordering Chinese food, and watching a (hopefully)
good movie.

[susandennis]

I did not say that April Fools was today. I did not assign any day to it.