Kikkoman

Amber (the cat) and I have reached an understanding. Shawna is usually the first one out in the morning and so I am the one that always has to kick the cat outside for the day. Half the time she wants to go out and is waiting by the door. 40% of the time I have to pick her up and take her out to the door, and once there she is happy to go out. 10% of the time tho, I have to chase her down and really boot her out.

Today, she was sitting on my desk when I was ready to go. And rather than pick her up and carry her to the door, I was able to communicate to her that it was time to go. I looked at her, she looked at me, I snapped my fingers loudly and pointed over to the front door, and she got it! She got up, trotted over to the door, and I let her out.

I imagine that there will still be some “bad hair” days where she doesn’t want to go outside, and where I will have to chase her down. But still, what a good cat.

They “fixed” my iPod! Previously the only thing that prevented the my iPod-mini from getting a 10 out of 10 rating, was that it wasn’t possible to listen to the iPod while it was being charged off the laptop.

Previously, when plugging it into the laptop, the iPod would “reboot” into “sync mode”, finish syncing, and then stay in that state and charge. Now when it finishes syncing, it goes back into play mode.

Not a big thing, but irritating when you are listening to an hour long podcast and you don’t want to lose your place or resetup in iTunes.

My point is that the iPod-mini, as a gadget, defines perfection. Which is new to me. And when I say perfect, it is within the narrow scope of, “a gadget that is designed to be a portable music player”. Yes, it is a narrow scope, but how many things are actually “perfect” in their role?

Today I was the last guy on the plane. The absolute last guy on the plane. A first for me.

Btw, our kitty, Amber is wounded. It looks like she got bit by one of the other neighborhood cats (probably Lionel), and one of the bite marks got infected. We took her to the vet yesterday (Dilum’s wife Kristy), and she took care of her.

Amber had actually licked alot of the hair away from the wound site, and it had swollen up to about half the size of a ping pong ball. But because she is long haired and is constantly licking herself anyways, we didn’t notice.

She seems to have her energy back now (antibiotics twice a day), but is not a happy camper given that she has a plastic drainage tube stuck in her and has to wear the kitty cone for the next few days.

Update: 2-22-05 Kitty is fine, and doing well. Thanks to Robert for taking care of her while we were gone.

I should not be given two big shots of espresso at 3 pm ….