May 2, 2008

• Maybe I should have stayed in bed.

  Naaaah, that wouldn’t have worked.  Then the kid would have gone to sleep on the couch and I wouldn’t be able to sit down there and play when I’m done here. 

  The problem was that I was trying to make coffee before I’d had my morning coffee.  I wrecked the coffeemaker, put in the grounds and turned on the switch without putting water in.  It is burnt out, defunct, toast, and trash.  Now I’ll never get the kid to make coffee for me again, because I’m back to doing it the old fashioned work intensive time consuming way with the teakettle and filter cone.  So, after this, to get my morning coffee without taking on hazardous tasks early in the morning, I’ll need to make it at night and nuke it when I get up.

  Design by Feline

  Did you know that cats are lousy interior decorators?  What with my being incapacitated for approximately half a year, and Doug being overtaxed with taking care of me and keeping up with way too many new games, nobody has been picking up after the cats when they knock stuff down. 

  It wasn’t such a big mess when all we had were the adults who were already used to blowgun discipline.  They don’t often go where we don’t want them to go, like the top bookshelf, or up the Navajo rug, or swinging on plant hangers, and when one of them starts in a forbidden direction, all we need to do is pick up the blowgun and she’ll sit down and start displacement grooming.  **Who, me?  You must be imagining things.**

  The new kittens, the Piebeans, have yet to feel the sting of the stun dart often enough to have gotten the message.  For most of this winter, I haven’t had enough wind for the blowgun, anyway.  This situation will require a two-pronged attack:  find homes for the Piebeans, and pick up the mess piece by piece.

  TGIF?
  
  If you work a regular 5 day week, you’re probably happy today because you’ve got some time off coming.  Even when I was gainfully employed, it was usually in positions and places where nobody even considered taking time off on a weekend because that was the busiest time.  I’m happy today because I’m facing some rather unpleasant work in the next few days. 

  Enough ice and snow have melted that we can now try to get the car out of the driveway.  It has a flat tire and there are still some big rounds of firewood blocking it in.  When Doug wakes up this evening, we’ll go see if it will start.  If so, we can use the DC inflater to see if the tire will hold air.  If the car won’t start, or if the tire won’t hold pressure, we will call AAA.

  Thanks to Greyfox, if the task turns really unpleasant on us, we have road service to help us get out of our driveway.  As Bob Marley said, “…soft, so soft.”

  Have a pleasant weekend.  I’ll be around here, but maybe you won’t.

  

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