It’s April Fools Day

This should be a wonderful day. It’s my darling friend Laura’s birthday and it is New Card day for Mah Jongg. That alone should make it a great day. OK, It’s Laura’s Birthday and that is great.

The new Mah Jongg Card came out and both the standard size Card and the Large print card each have a mistake on them and amazingly they are not the same mistake. It is not the end of the world, despite the wailing from so many. I cut up an old card and fixed mine because I had to create a Giant teaching card. Apparently the National Mah Jongg League is going to send out replacements. I am still waiting on my large group of cards to arrive. They will all be wrong, but I can teach around it.

I am not holding my breath for replacement cards considering how long it takes them to get out the regular cards. I hope they hire a professional editor for next year. This mistake of printing a line in all one color twice is an over site, not as bad as the year they purposely printed “Any odd or even number.” Come on, “any odd or even number” means Any Number. We don’t play mah Jongg with magical numbers.

The last thing is today is April Fools Day, which as far as I am concerned has been made redundant due to the amount of foolish things coming out of Washington daily for the last ten weeks. I can’t think of anything more foolish than what we have already heard, but I am surprised everyday when they come up with another even more stupid thing to do.

Maybe we really need April Smart Day. Then again that would go over the head of so many people.