The most patient cat in the world

Here we have Jamie giving love and attention to Angel, the top-ranking cat in our house. Jamie has done this for as long as she has been able. The two young cats, Angel and Roppet, endure this with astoshing patience, and have only scratched her accidentally a handful of times, and very superficially at that. The Grand Dame Older Kat, Jezebelle, who is 105 years old by the traditional formula, goes to great pains to hide from Jamie, but she hides the same way from the rest of us too.

Jamie, incidentally, is revelling in the power of disrobement. Jamie Sez: "I've got the kitty! We're both naked!"

And why do we spend all that money?

You buy a spiffy new electronic piano for your kids and what do they want to do? Play in the box, of course. Here we have the box zombie lurching through the house.

Quick update

Golly, it's been a while.

Decluttering: Two truckloads to the dump in the last 2 weeks. Woot! Plus the sailboat is up for sale on Craig's List.

Mac Whacking: Proof of operation on older iBook. External monitor works fine, laptop monitor screen works, but its backlight is dodgy. Interestingly, I found a place on the body of the laptop (to the left of the touchpad and below the Ctrl Key) that I can squeeze to make the backlight go on and off. The fellows at iFixit.com say it might be a bad inverter cable... um, right. But I ordered the basic tools and I'll dig into the case to see if there's a simple loose connection.

Music: Trillium (that's my trio) has a gig for Monday before Thanksgiving at the rest home. We've got quite a following there. We're aiming to get into Spokane's Fall Folk Festival 2008. Oh, and I've applied to call contras at NW Folklife in Seattle next May, with my buddies Hands 4 from Portland area.