I popped on facebook this morning to send a friend in Canada a congratulatory facebook gift. He and his partner — both American expatriates — got married this weekend.

Color me bemused when the first page of available gifts pictured above showed a gift of $100 (last one on the second row). It’ll only cost you $1, unless you purchased one of those 10-gift packs for like $6 or something, then it’ll be even less. Either way, I find some great irony in that given the current state of the American economy.

Another friend of mine sent me a facebook gift last Tuesday: a free cone commemorating this year’s Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s, an event I once again missed out on mostly because my time these days is too valuable to stand in line for an hour just for a free ice cream cone. That would be like working for less than minimum wage. I did make it to my nearest scoop shop on Saturday though, to try out a new flavor introduced on Free Cone Day — Imagine Whirled Peace.

I considered the cone — and the mostly liquid lunch that proceeded it — a reward to myself fr participating in the Greater Washington Servathon as part of Team DCist. Our assignment was at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Columbia Heights. After the lot of us were divided up into teams of 5 or 6, my group headed upstairs to a classroom to paint the lockers within it a particularly bright tint of green.

The picture doesn’t do the paint justice. I mean it was really bright.