I’ve been told that my face is next to the word “gullible” in the dictionary. I wouldn’t be surprised, but I’m afraid to look to confirm or deny the statement…

• Right off the bat this morning, I fell for one of Slashdot‘s April Fool’s pranks. Bonus points to the person who can spot which one. (And no telling, Lilith!) I even knew that they were running prank stories, and I still fell for it. Gah.
  
• Marconi and Tiny hijacked Jaime Cooley’s email and sent out an “I quit” message to the all-staff group. I fell for it. Then again, I really do think Jaime deserves better than to have to put up with those two, but…
  
• Beyond the aforementioned spammer event, other work-related absurdity included a computer that refused to install a simple piece of software. I checked the computer for broken system files, I ran spyware removal (found lots of nastiness), I tinkered and fiddled to no avail. As a last-ditch effort I forcibly extracted the files from the installer into a directory. Lo and behold, it worked perfectly. That’s two hours of my life I want back, dammit.
  
• My day took a marked turn for the better shortly after 2:00 in the afternoon, when Lilith showed up for our lunch date. She chose the venue, a little bento-ish place just off Milwaukie and Powell. We ate teriyaki chicken and took turns ranting and raving and cracking wise. I wasn’t “all better” when we left, but I was well on my way to it.
  
• Luckily, nothing much happened for the rest of my workday, after which I went home and engaged Alexander in a half-dozen rounds of Slavemaster CTF Unreal Tournament. Not only is UT a great form of digital mayhem and destruction, but the Slavemaster mod means that we enslave those we destroy until they bring us enough stuff to earn their freedom. I won’t play UT any other way, folks. Hell yes.
  
• Wendi fixed spaghetti, and tonight we actually have parmesan cheese for it. Woo hoo! Now if only we can find my shaver…

And that’s the rest of my day, in a nutshell. Which is, as always, an appropriate receptacle. I can’t wait for Thursday when I leave for SakuraCon. Yeah.