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Soooo.... LJ. Doing this thing where spamming long-gone friends can get you paid time

http://www.livejournal.com/remember/

Can confirm that if you input a username, they'll send it whether or not that person is inactive. Now I'm just trying to figure out if they gave me that paid time. If they did, I'll edit this and anybody who would like free paid time is welcome to get spammed by me via LJ.

Today was 55 F.

If it's 55 in my house, I go down and figure out why the furnace hasn't kicked on. But 55 outside is SUMMER, BABY!

This sort of day in spring is priceless. You have some people hooded up in parkas, and others walking around in shorts and t-shirts (and, in one case, shorts without a t-shirt. If it hit 55 in August he'd be wearing a sweater, but because it's March, anything goes!)

After our doctor's appointment, we went to a playground and then to whole foods to get some chocolate syrup. Everybody else in the city had the same bright idea I had (about the playground, not about the u-bet), so the place was packed, standing room only for the adults. And do you know I had to confiscate the girls' kindles to make them play? I told them, it's a playground, not a reading ground, but I still had to chase them around personally. (Mostly I did this by threatening to take away their kindles if I got close enough. Whatever, so long as they ran around in the sunshine for 20 minutes.) I just don't know where we went wrong. Why, while I was making them play, I missed out on 20 minutes of perfectly good reading time!

In other news, Ana has announced a desire to become Jewish. She never expressed such a desire until I offhandedly mentioned that the only time it's appropriate to recline during dinner is if you happen to be at a Seder, and now every once in a while she brings it up. That and random Yiddish I don't know where she learned. I don't think she actually wants to become Jewish so much as she wants to slouch and not dye eggs this Easter. (Well, she likes the dyeing, she just doesn't like the eating.) I told her that I actually know at least three people who converted or are converting. I have a suspicion most people don't know any, so I guess I'm special :)

Happy Passover, guys. (And Easter! And anything else coming down the pipe! Happy Easter, happy spring, happy, happy everything!)

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