I thought that we were done with this for at least four or five months.  I see light snow and hail on my way home from work.  I'm done with this.  43 degrees and windy.  And just a few days until May.  What did I do to deserve this.

Oh yea.  Well I still disapprove.

First off, Happy Birthday Mom!  You guys know her as Vilija but I'm one of the lucky few who can call her mom.  Today is also Malaria awareness day.  Think about malaria on your birthday.  How fun!

I found this video yesterday and it reminded me of you.  It'll be stuck in your head all day.

I liked squirrels until I moved to Minnesota.  The squirrels there ate my plastic furniture which was expensive (to the extent that plastic Ikea furniture can be expensive), irritating, and noisy.  I had a weighted sun umbrella holder that we filled with water for weight.  They chewed through it so the water drained and it was useless.  As if there is no ground water in Minnesota.

When I moved out to Albany, I inherited squirrels that live in my attic.  Because it is an apartment, I don't have much power over what isn't mine, specifically the attic.  They set traps and it does help but those little jerks have a gym and social club right over my bed.  They even chewed through our FIBER OPTIC CABLE (internet).  Why would anything do that?  It wasn't in the way, it doesn't taste like anything.

I have learned to hate squirrels even if they are cute.  I won't intentionally hit one on the road and I will let them be as long as they let me be.  But if I had the power over the jerks that have parties above my bed, there'd be bags of squirrels in the dumpster.

On a much cuter and lighter note, here are some ways to play with squirrels.  Squirrel fishing.

In the year 2010, everybody has electrical stuff all over the house.  The operation of most, like the clock on the microwave, are made very simple.  We don't really see these things as computers or even technology.  The wheel is considered technology, but for the scope of this post, let's consider technology to be the things that use electricity and work with an on/off switch.

These things require some knowledge or experience to use but once you know how to set the clock on your microwave, you could probably set a clock on any microwave.  Next, you can set all of the clocks in the house to a similar time.  This is the first step.

I found something for my mom.  I found the J! Archive.  That's right.  An archive of every Jeopardy question ever.  26 seasons.  All of them right here. 

The release of Mario Galaxy 2 is quickly approaching.  May 23 will be the next big Mario game.  I'm going to reserve my copy this weekend.  The "Toads" have always been known by their colors but I guess that they really have names.  Go figure.

I just saw a commercial for Dawn dish washing soap.  The commercial is cute with some very simple acoustic music to go along with it. One point for cute.  It shows hands washing the baby animals that are covered in a human crime to nature, spilled oil.  One point for guilt, one point for green.  The objective of the commercial is to advertise a Dawn promotion where they will "donate" a dollar for every bottle of this soap that you buy if you register your bottle of soap online.  Yes, really.

This is brilliant marketing.  Guilt, cute, "green".  You think "even if this soap is a dollar more than the cheap stuff, it's going to a good place".

There are a few things about this that should make anybody say "hold on a second".

It was cold and windy yesterday and it took some extra push to get me out the door.  I was riding home on a busy street from a local park with some trails.  A Little Ceasars pizza place opened just last year and it's hard pizza business in New York.  There was a person dancing around on the side of the road, in front of this Little Ceasars, holding a sign and dressed in a big foam costume of Ceasar himself.  I love the five dollar pizza so I when I got closer, I held my hand out for a high-five.  Ceasar saw me and when we "fived", I heard the girl in the costume yell "woo hoo" (I had no idea it was a girl until then).  The rest of the ride home was just as cold and windy but warm pizza danced in my head.  It made the whole ride worth it.

It is pretty chilly out this morning.  Not much like last weekend although we did have a nice few days this week.  We're in the low 40's right now with plenty of wind.  I don't know if I will get outside today (feels like 36) but if the wind stops and we get up in the mid 50's, I'll give it a shot.

I found this interactive music video just yesterday before work and I didn't have much of a chance to play with it.  It is pretty cool.  Click on things as they pass by.  Don't try to make sense of what is going on.

It is a very nice day out, just like yesterday.  I spent a lot of time out yesterday.  I went to get a haircut today but everybody is closed.  I need a haircut.

I just got a small flip video camera with frequent flyer miles.  I didn't take it with me yesterday but I had a chance to play with it today.  I walked around the complex just about an hour ago and saw a few branches with three baby turtles sunning themselves on them.  As I got close, they instinctively jumped into the water.  I sat and waited for them to return and found a small catfish beneath the larger branch.  As I was filming him, the bravest turtle made a second appearance and climbed up the branch.

I got a lot of good feedback from yesterday's post on internet safety.  Thanks for reading it and if you haven't, check it out.

I wanted to do an April Fools' website like I have done the past two years.  This year I almost emulated this Celestial Soul Portraits site.  Can you believe that?  $150 for a small and $250 for a large?

Truthfully, I didn't put enough planning to have it done in time and it was low on the priority list.