This evening I went to one of my favorite spots, Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge up in Washington. On my first trip around the auto tour, the yellow warning light lit up on my Civic’s dashboard, telling me I’d better get gas or else.

I figured it was a false alarm but didn’t want to risk it, so I took off for the nearest gas station. I pulled up to the pump, turned off the car, popped the gas tank door, and waited for them to come and fill up the car.

And waited.
And waited.
And waited.

And then it dawned on me, you’re in Washington, you have to pump your own gas here. Fortunately I hadn’t waited more than a minute or two, so hopefully I didn’t look like too much of a maroon.

I normally hate April Fool’s Jokes because they are invariably so lame. A couple today made me smile, a good thing given the way the past few weeks have gone.

Google Romance is kind of funny, not so much the concept (since you know they’re working on it anyway) but because they’re willing to take so many potshots at themselves.

But nobody else came close to my favorite so far today, courtesy of the good folks at Flickr: all of their Explore pages show nothing but pictures of cats, such as this one showing interesting pictures from the last 7 days.

All of the various Explore pages will go back to normal after today, but you can see a couple of screenshots I captured below.