Happy April Fool's Day

This morning I received the following email from my wonderful father-in-law addressed to my lovely mother-in-law:

Jan,

I’ve been interviewing for the past few weeks with a new start-up company that I have not discussed with you. I have found another job opportunity in Phoenix with the following company http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html (a subsidiary of Google). I received a call with an offer, and I thought I should tell you that I accepted on the phone. I wanted to give you a little advance notice. I plan on giving my two weeks notice before I leave work today. This opportunity was just too exciting to pass up!

Love U,

Ron Whelan

And since I'm one of the most gullible people ever, I totally fell for it. I lept out of bed (yes people, I lept) and grabbed the phone all freaked-out to call Spencer to see if he had read the email yet. After a couple panicked minutes (I couldn't imagine that Jan would take this news well) of re-reading the email over and over again, I realized I had been fooled. He totally and completely got me. Well done Ron!

So I went on the site and filled out the "application" to see if I would be eligible to live and work on Mars. Here were the results of my test:

Well, you're distressingly normal and could conceivably adjust to life as a deep space pioneer, though we recommend instead that you leave the Mars missions to the serious whack jobs who scored over 130 and instead finish year 3 of law school, tuck your toddler into bed, design Web 2.0 applications, run for Congress or do whatever other normal, healthy, middle-of-the-road thing you're currently doing with your normal, healthy, middle-of-the-road life. If you're determined to give Virgle a try, though, you can submit your video here.

I guess Mars life isn't for me... although I don't think I needed the application to tell me that. The first instance of me having to try to survive would probably result in my death. I think I will stick to my safe, middle-of-the-road life. HA!