It’s barely 9:30 am, and I just sifted through at least a dozen emails containing various bad jokes and tech-geeky easter egg hunts. I guess I am officially a curmudgeon as I have decided that I despise April Fools Day. Google seems to own this day with its decade-long history of witty hoaxes and wacky hijinks. I can’t even imagine how many people are spending their mornings playing with the Animal Translation Tool or looking for this year’s version of Google Gulp. Please give me a moment… I can’t stop laughing. I can’t wait to finish this blog post so I can go back to my email and waste my time weeding out the hoaxes from the realities. What’s that? 165 people died in an April Fools Day tsunami? Hilarious! Oh, wait…. that actually happened. I know, I know… it’s all in good fun and a great way to teach children the difference between a hurtful joke and a good-natured prank. Of course, that assumes that most adults know the difference. Perhaps I’ll have a few knee-slapping guffaws when my son comes home from school in tears because another 5-year-old with a well-developed, sophisticated sense of humor threw a pile of dirt in his eyes and ran away yelling “April Fools!!!!!!”. All in good fun, of course. Maybe I need to take a deep breath and get into the spirit of the day. I know a good one. Since Easter is just a few days away, we could point out that its foundations are likely the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the human race. Side-splitting! Well, I guess it’s time to get back to my email where I can sift through more priceless April Fools Day gems.