Thursday morning: They said the sun would be coming

1. Just a gentle reminder to folks that today is April Fool's Day.

I know I hate getting caught by those things, ever since the day my middle school kids set up the classroom in the parking lot. There will not be anything April Fool's-related here today, but I just saw an ad for something that was clearly a spoof. Well, clearly after a minute.

2. Well, I survived my birthday, thanks to a lot of help from my friends. Stuff happened, as stuff does, and I just hung close to the house, but I cannot fully thank those who inundated me with kind words and other help. I really mean it when  I say that my friends make me who I am. I am blessed.

3. I get a lot of resume-writing and job-search articles these days, and the cats could not figure out why I was chuckling when I started reading Item No. 1 of "10 Sure-Fire Ways to Make Sure Your Resume Screams "I'm An Amateur."

                             1. Use Comic Sans or some other over-used, impractical font. Hiring managers especially love flowery script that’s hard to read!

4. This week features new posts both at Short Pours and "Working" Press. Please check them out.

5. In case you liked the peeps-sushi post yesterday (and actually, you either loved it or was mortified), our friends at Serious Eats tell us how to dye Easter Eggs the natural way,

6. Here's a great quote from Vin Scully from "For Love of the Game"

And you know Steve you get the feeling that Billy Chapel isn't pitching against left handers, he isn't pitching against pinch hitters, he isn't pitching against the Yankees. He's pitching against time. He's pitching against the future, against age, and even when you think about his career, against ending. And tonight I think he might be able to use that aching old arm one more time to push the sun back up in the sky and give us one more day of summer.


7. Dark Sword presents Guinea Pig Samurai.



If only the shield was purple with a gold falcon on it.

I am not going to post *everything* I see on Serious Eats . . .

But this one's for evilnicola and the rest of my family.

alethea_eastrid pointed out this link for an Easter Calzone! I had previously mentioned macaroni-and-salami pie to her.