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Stuff, Cats, and the Weekend
Jun. 1st, 2013 09:51 amNew Stuff. Bought a new TV & DVD player for our living room. The DVD player is because we get tired of the old DVD player not playing stuff due to scratches (thanks Netflix), dirt (thanks Netflix), or bad DVD recording (thanks Amazon) and the newer DVD players seem much better at correcting for errors. The TV is because we're tired of not being able to read stuff or make out details on our 20" CRT TV when producers clearly expect you to be watching on something bigger & crisper. (So we're jumping to 26" which is still tiny according to most homes I've seen, but hopefully better, and about the biggest that'll fit in my very old entertainment center, which my dad bought me when I moved to an apartment in Berkeley.) I'm shocked at how cheap both of these items have gotten. At $200 that TV is 40% or 50% of the cost of the old living room set, and at a ridiculous $44 the DVD player is 10% of the cost of (probably much better) one that I bought *cough* 14 years ago.
Cats. A week in, Tai Chi is pretty much totally settled. Sadly, Callisto still has the hiss and/or chase reaction much of the time. Not always, as I sometimes find them sitting a few feet apart. I think that Callisto freaks mainly when she gets surprised. ("Cats! I'm shocked to find cats in this house!") I do believe she's not hissing at poor Lucy anymore, however, which she did for a couple days. Lucy, by the by, has been a saint during the entirity of Tai Chi's visit. My poor kitten has become the mature, calm cat of the household!
Meanwhile, Tai Chi is encouraging our cats to be bad, which I've also seen before. Nothing major, but he's very insistent that he can get up on the window sill behind the kitchen counter, and that's been making Callisto decide it's OK. (Meanwhile, since Callisto has arrived she's been encouraging Lucy to get up on the kitchen counter, so it's a feline chain reaction.)
And speaking of bad, Tai Chi insists on eating our cat's food and Callisto insists on eating Tai Chi's food. It's inevitable, of course, but it's amazing how adamant each is about preferring the others. Fortunately, everyone eats their own food at night, since I've been locking Tai Chi up at bedtime to give him and Callisto a stress break.
And it's the weekend! No gaming today, so I'm planning to go out for a ride and enjoy the super hot day up in the hills, if I can make it (heat allowing!). I'm going to bring my laptop (~+6 pounds?) to do some work, which I haven't done since I was working on the previous volume of Designers & Dragons. (It's easier to do when I have final drafts that need editing, and I've been far from that ... but I figured out some internetless work I could do.)
Oh, and the student migration has mostly ended! The suitcase part of the migration was weeks ago, but yesterday was the major moving day, sine a surprising number of students think they're required to end their leases on the last day of the month. Sadly this also means that the streets are now FILLED with crap, since Berkeley stopped putting out dumpsters for the students a few years ago. So it goes ... (And now the City just has to pick it up on an ad hoc basis, which is surely more expensive, and leaves the city looking like crap for weeks.)
Cats. A week in, Tai Chi is pretty much totally settled. Sadly, Callisto still has the hiss and/or chase reaction much of the time. Not always, as I sometimes find them sitting a few feet apart. I think that Callisto freaks mainly when she gets surprised. ("Cats! I'm shocked to find cats in this house!") I do believe she's not hissing at poor Lucy anymore, however, which she did for a couple days. Lucy, by the by, has been a saint during the entirity of Tai Chi's visit. My poor kitten has become the mature, calm cat of the household!
Meanwhile, Tai Chi is encouraging our cats to be bad, which I've also seen before. Nothing major, but he's very insistent that he can get up on the window sill behind the kitchen counter, and that's been making Callisto decide it's OK. (Meanwhile, since Callisto has arrived she's been encouraging Lucy to get up on the kitchen counter, so it's a feline chain reaction.)
And speaking of bad, Tai Chi insists on eating our cat's food and Callisto insists on eating Tai Chi's food. It's inevitable, of course, but it's amazing how adamant each is about preferring the others. Fortunately, everyone eats their own food at night, since I've been locking Tai Chi up at bedtime to give him and Callisto a stress break.
And it's the weekend! No gaming today, so I'm planning to go out for a ride and enjoy the super hot day up in the hills, if I can make it (heat allowing!). I'm going to bring my laptop (~+6 pounds?) to do some work, which I haven't done since I was working on the previous volume of Designers & Dragons. (It's easier to do when I have final drafts that need editing, and I've been far from that ... but I figured out some internetless work I could do.)
Oh, and the student migration has mostly ended! The suitcase part of the migration was weeks ago, but yesterday was the major moving day, sine a surprising number of students think they're required to end their leases on the last day of the month. Sadly this also means that the streets are now FILLED with crap, since Berkeley stopped putting out dumpsters for the students a few years ago. So it goes ... (And now the City just has to pick it up on an ad hoc basis, which is surely more expensive, and leaves the city looking like crap for weeks.)