I heard an interesting theory recently. I was telling my sister-in-law about Kanika's immediate response to the laser pointer and she passed on that a number of years ago, she was told by someone that most cats primarily fall into one of two categories of hunting styles: mousers and birders. Supposedly, this determines how they hunt and what they ( Read more... )

Ok, it's not quite that bad. But I'm surprisingly inexperienced in the ways of paint thinner as I've only worked with paint and poly that was water washable before. The can of paint thinner says something about following directions, but only has lots of warnings and no actual directions. I will now describe what I did and anyone with an opinion ( Read more... )

This afternoon I intended to be productive at home, but after a little DDR, some lunch and the first few episodes of the third seasn of "Soap," I just felt tired, so I took a two hour nap. Q rehearsal was more discussion and planning and not rehearsing, but we figured out some venues we want to pursue and a rehearsal plan. We're probably going to ( Read more... )

Steve brought over their 20 gallon hexagonal fish tank tonight. We got it set up with all the various accoutrements running in the sewing room and got the two fish back in it. I'll have it until summer, probably some time in June or July. I'm very curious to see when Kanika starts paying attention and how she'll react. She doesn't seem to have ( Read more... )

I generally had a good Rodgercon. Played lots of games, watched a couple of movies, ate too much yummy food. Hurray ( Read more... )

The red states are the ones I've been in.


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Working on the place is in danger of becoming drudgery. I'm still into the changes I'm making, it's just been consuming so much of my time. I'm glad Rodgercon is this weekend, I have a perfectly good excuse to go away and do nothing productive at all. I'm very excited about the chocolate cake I baked today, the recipe is supposed to come out ( Read more... )

I picked up my new bed, which came in almost a week sooner than they said. Way cool. And I'm sure it took me twice as long to put it together by myself as it would with someone else, and I very minorly scratched the wood in a couple of spots when I was putting the box spring on. Oh well. I'm not the type to freak out about something like that ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I did several errands and bought more random things I need for the place, including bowls I really like that go with my new drinking glasses. Except for a couple specific things, I think I'm mostly together on that front. And I got a call that my bed is in, so I'll probably go get it tomorrow. The mattress set won't be on the ( Read more... )

At Leeann Chin today, I had two decent sized deliveries and one mongo-huge one, so I worked 2 and 1/2 hours and walked with $139. Days like this don't happen often, but it's pretty cool when they do ( Read more... )