The Guest Cat's Back

'Tis that time of year when Guest Cat returns to our house.

Melody and Jared stopped by yesterday evening to drop Tai-Chi off. As has been our wont recently, we placed him in the Family Room along with crate, litter, and food. We socialized with Melody and Jared a bit afterward and had dinner out at Smart Alec's -- where everyone was very favorably impressed by the food.

Then, they were off, and it was just the Guest Cat and us. And our three cats of course.

Within a few hours of Melody and Jared leaving, Tai-Chi was insisting on being let out of the Family Room. So, he's had free run of the house since. There have been a number of grumbly cats (poor Cobweb was getting hissed at by literally all of the other cats last night), but it's slowly dying down.

The worst problem, as ever, is that little Lucy likes to corner Tai Chi. I've had to save him a few times from that. It's a dominance thing, I'm sure, and the smallest cat in the house is pretty sure she's the ruler.

Tai Chi isn't being very friendly yet, I presume because he's in a strange house full of other cats. But history suggests he'll get friendlier as the week goes on ...

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In other news, I've been writing pretty extensively lately. I have a few more Dungeons & Designers articles queued up for RPGnet for Monday and I also just finished writing up something pretty unique: a 3,500 word or so article on icon design in eurogames. It's a nicely comprehensive piece (though I also got some great ideas from Eric V. on improving it) and I'm beginning to wonder ... could there be a game design book there? (With this just being the barest start.)

Hmmm.

But not for now. I've still got an Armorica iPhone game to finish up and probably a new RPG book for Mongoose (just something for one of their lines, nothing like Designers & Dragons).