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Random Stuff

Jun 27, 2009
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Went upstairs a while ago to find Warren napping on the floor. I don't think I've ever seen either one of the cats do this unless they happen to be under the bed. Clearly the heat has addled his brain.

And, yes, it's hot. The Weather Service says that it's only 102 outside, but my thermometers beg to differ.

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These photos are about 30 minutes old and the one on the left peaked at 109 a few minutes ago.That's just way too hot to be acceptable.

Last night I had a frozen pizza for dinner as Ken has gone hunting for the weekend. I learned a valuable lesson. When you remove pizza from a 450 degree oven is wise to assume the sauce is also at a temperature of 450 (even after you've let the pizza stand for about 10 minutes). Guess I should have paid more attention in physics class.

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Because of the heat I did my annual reading of The Long Winter last night. Doing it right involves turning down the AC to at least 70 and sitting in a dark room. This usually doesn't happen until late July or early August. I wonder if this means I'll need to read it again later this summer.

And now, just for fun I'll leave you with a short passage from the book. Now that I'm older it makes me chuckle every time I read it.

"If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl, before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of."
"That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good things to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

Silly Cats!

Mar 7, 2009
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This basket has been sitting on the step for about a year. Just this week Warren decided that it's a good place to sit.

Warren

So, of course, Kitty had to check it out.

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help me....

Jun 30, 2008
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My cat was playing with my computer keyboard a while ago and somehow managed to rotate my screen image 90 degrees to the left. Does anyone know how to rotate it back? I've tried restarting the computer and that didn't work. I've also tried hitting various combinations of keys on the bottom row and haven't been able to hit on the right one. I'm stumped. And I'm starting to get a crick in my neck! 8:-)

Never mind. Ken just got home and we figured it out. He clicked on the right button of the mouse while the cursor was over the wallpaper (he did it accidentally, BTW) and a window came up that included the option "Graphics Option". When we highlighted that we got an option for rotation which then gave us options for any orientation we want! Cool, huh? I gotta remember this trick for the next time I want to piss somebody off.

It's a grueling job...

Oct 15, 2007
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...but clearly someone has to do it.

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Warren and Kitty make it their number one priority everyday to see to it that in the event of gravity failure the pillows do not go flying around the room. What would I do without them around making sure home is a safe and secure environment?

I don' wanna!

Sep 9, 2007
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I'm NOT going to take a nap. I don't care how tired I am!!

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Today is Grandparents Day and Jonah came to see us. He's smiling now and I had some success with our first lesson in going PBLBLBTT!! (BTW, he still has that good new baby smell!)