April 1st Ransackery

(1) I called my brother early in the morning this April 1st Saturday (adding to the realism because I’m not normally up early in the morning – especially on Saturday – and not to mention that in an early morning state he would be more susceptible to my April 1st ruse). I told him that I could not view any of the sites on our web-hosting server. Not only that, but none of the files were there. Not only that, but our hosting company was telling me that there was a problem with our backups and they did not have any restore data. I then went into a panicked dialogue about having some of the data downloaded, but not everything and what did he have and was he near a computer and I didn’t know what to do!!! 😉 As he was making his way to his computer, I imagine he looked a little something like this…

At about the same time he discovers the sites are still alive and well, I’m yelling “APRIL FOOLS!” into the phone. hehe… 🙂

(2) The old rubberband the sink sprayer trick!

My girlfriend’s daughter can be rather impish. Having to wipe down the floor with a towel was well worth watching her turn on the sink and get totally soaked by the sprayer. 😉

(3) I filled a plastic glass with water, tied a shoestring around the bottom, placed it in a kitchen cabinet, and taped the other end of the shoestring on the inside of the cabinet door. Follow me here… Girlfriend’s daughter (you remember, the impish one) goes to get breakfast, opens the door, and…

More toweling off the floor… but still worth it. 😉

Happy April Fool’s Day!