{gives calendar a sound thumping}

[robling_t]

Dear Winter Weather, please fuck off and die, kthxbye. I'm getting tired of turning the light-starved seedlings that should have moved out of the workroom more than a week ago.

• New Thing Learned for 9 April: There are adult humans crazy enough to -- well, to stuff themselves onto a Big Wheel in the first place, never mind to point it down a twisting slope with hundreds of fellow loonies. There is such a thing as taking nostalgia too far, kids. [Source: various news outlets.]
  
  
• New Thing Learned for 10 April: Harry Morgan is alive and well, though not working much these days. [Source: Countdown with Keith Olbermann.]
  
  
• New Thing Learned for 11 April: 2.5 mm Addi Turbos will bend under extreme stress. Maybe I should have filled them with ice before I tried to pick up that provisional cast-on... [Source: just a damned good thing it wasn't bamboo, I guess.]
  

Would anyone be interested in having lunch at Spacca Napoli on the afternoon of the 21st? Let me know in the comments and if it looks like we can get a party together I'll pull a time out of my butt...