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Ok, so I cheated a little bit :)  Calin let me open the wii and hook it up early, but I’m not going to play until April 1st, so it’s just a few hours away!  We’ll see if I stay up that late.

Hopefully we won’t be disappointed- all of the suspense has both of us pretty excited about playing, so I hope the novelty doesn’t wear off quickly.

Eliot Spitzer resigns as governor of New York; where will we find comfort during this difficult time?

-Stephen Colbert

Try the Pall Mall from my previous post with Tanqueray Rangpur; excellent- it’s like minty lime.

From an e-mail forward:

Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.

Based on the above, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) than it will be this year (2008) but that is pretty rare.

This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives!

And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early previously (95 years old or above!). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier!

Here are the facts:

1. 1. The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you’re 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).
   2. The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285, 277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!