Day ninety-one

After yesterday's more personal post, I want to do something light today. This is especially true as I'm writing this after 11:00 pm, rather than during work hours. Yes, I've begun writing this blog while I'm at work, during breaks and lunch. I'm more inclined to do it at work since I can now access our guest wifi network.

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After being swamped with work the past few days, we're finally getting back to a point where we're getting ahead on our work. At least, a little. As we move further through the spring and into the summer, work should slow down considerably.

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For the second time in a month, I have a wedding to attend this Saturday. I still need to buy a gift and I want to get my suit dry cleaned. I have time to get stuff done, since I get paid this Thursday and my mornings are open. I need to look at their registry.

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As today is April Fool's Day, I thought I'd mention one of the oddest pranks I've ever heard anyone pull off. Keith Moon, late drummer for The Who, used to pull off a prank that required a degree of patience and subtlety that ran contrary to his wild persona.

A friend would go into a department store and ask to see their trousers made with the strongest material. The friend would sometimes be accompanied by an actress playing his wife to help sell the deception. Moon would come in as an anonymous customer, doing shopping of his own. He would be drawn into helping the other man test the strength of the trousers; each one would grab a leg and pull on the trousers until they tore in two. As they complained to the flummoxed salesperson about the weak material, another man would enter the scene (reputedly a one-legged actor) and say that he would pay extra money for one-legged trousers.

I think I like this one because it's not particularly mean-spirited as such pranks can be; it's just wonderfully bizarre.