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lol, I think I'll go search up some pranks on youtube XD I wonder if there's a book about how to pull off some awesome pranks.....it should be called "Pranks for Every Occasion" XD and then I'd just flip over to the "Meeting" section and the "Pranks on the boss that will not get you in serious trouble" section XD

Oh I forgot tomorrow's April Fool's >.> I have to work I hope I don't get anything from the customers or any prank calls for that matter. Oh well lol

I just finished Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs.
The book just came out on Tuesday and I've completely devoured it already. I really love her writing.

Briggs....now where have I heard that name before......?

I bought 3 new books today <3

Bulbasaur>> congrats :D which ones? :3

LaVida - Mercy Thompson series? Maybe that's how you've heard of Patricia Briggs.

Mercy Thompson Series? hmmm.... sounds familiar.... I think maybe I read one or two of her books XD what's that Mercy Thompson series about?

@Knerd: I really like her writing style. And of course, the book is ALWAYS better than the movie ;)

nah, it is USUALLY better than the movie because sometimes one of the movies is actually better than the book...once in a hundred thousand movies made or something like that :P

@LaVida -- I'm sure by now they have a pranks for dummies book out there ... What did you finally come up with?

in the end, the meeting got canceled (no, the meeting was not a prank) because the head couldn't get a permit on that date since it was the long weekend :P

Oh yeah, I forget it's Good Friday today. I'm not religious but I like to celebrate on orthodox dates because that's my heritage. But their Easter is usually different than western Easter. And the year it's the same, it always throws me off. I'm used to waiting a week. D=

woah, a week @[email protected] that's a long time @[email protected]

Yeah, silly Julian calendar peoples.

hmmm, what's the difference between the calendars?

I'm not sure on the technical differences. I think the Gregorian was a small reform of the Julian Calendar, less leap years, etc. Whenever a specific country switched over to use the new calendar they "lost" two weeks. Most people did that in the mid 1700's. Russia didn't till the revolution, Greece did in the 1920's.

woah o.o that's a lot of numbers and countries o.o I wonder why they changed it @[email protected]

Appropriately, it looks like the core of it (besides just being a reform of the old calendar) had to do with Easter. From Wiki:

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The motivation of the Catholic Church in adjusting the calendar was to celebrate Easter at the time it thought the First Council of Nicaea had agreed upon in 325. Although a canon of the council implies that all churches used the same Easter, they did not. The Church of Alexandria celebrated Easter on the Sunday after the 14th day of the moon (computed using the Metonic cycle) that falls on or after the vernal equinox, which they placed on 21 March. However, the Church of Rome still regarded 25 March as the equinox (until 342) and used a different cycle to compute the day of the moon.[13] In the Alexandrian system, since the 14th day of the Easter moon could fall at earliest on 21 March its first day could fall no earlier than 8 March and no later than 5 April. This meant that Easter varied between 22 March and 25 April. In Rome, Easter was not allowed to fall later than 21 April, that being the day of the Parilia or birthday of Rome and a pagan festival. The first day of the Easter moon could fall no earlier than 5 March and no later than 2 April. Easter was the Sunday after the 15th day of this moon, whose 14th day was allowed to precede the equinox. Where the two systems produced different dates there was generally a compromise so that both churches were able to celebrate on the same day. By the tenth century all churches (except some on the eastern border of the Byzantine Empire) had adopted the Alexandrian Easter, which still placed the vernal equinox on 21 March, although Bede had already noted its drift in 725—it had drifted even further by the sixteenth century.

Worse, the reckoned Moon that was used to compute Easter was fixed to the Julian year by a 19 year cycle. However, that approximation built up an error of one day every 310 years, so by the sixteenth century the lunar calendar was out of phase with the real Moon by four days.

oooh..... that's why.... wow, once again it has been directed toward Christianity/pagan religions. in this other thread we were just talking about how Christianity was affecting and dominating so many things.

It really is amazing how that came about. I suppose that's what happens when a Roman Emperor popularizies your religion. All about government and control. D=

And actually, my first name is the feminine, Greek form of Constantine, Kostadina.

LaVida - Mercy is a shape shifter specifically a coyote. She's a mechanic....and she happens across werewolves, vampires, fae....yanno....she has a case of bad luck following her everywhere.

Guivre>> omg! I <3 your name <3 it's so unique :3 I thought my name was unique until this GUY called "Sonny" comes out of nowhere and into my class >.> and then "Sonny" is pronounced the same as "Sunny" so now I keep on turning around when someone calls out his name, it's sooooo darned annoying! D:< It would had been better if his name was pronounced as "SONY", like that TV brand name :(

I've probably read over 50 books in my lifetime. I read a lot of books. But the library hasn't had many new books lately. Man you should have seen when I was reading the harry potter books. xD

@LaVida -- Don't worry the "U" makes it a totally unrelated name. =D

I went back to reading a book about the English language. It's by Robert Claibourne, called Our Marvelous Native Tongue, and it's written to entertain, so it's not all that dry.

But yeah, it's hard for dog stories to hold my attention. I should remember that half of them are going to be hunting stories. It's not that I'm super against hunting (I mean, I'm not a fan, but I'm realistic) but the stories are pretty similar.

Or maybe it's just that dog stories, if not fiction, are like seeing baby pictures. I'm sure your baby is adorable but one photo is enough ...