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shannon_aMelody and Jared came to pick up their Guest Cat last night. We chatted for an hour or so, then they headed back off to the south bay, through the rain*.
Though I said I felt my relationship with Tai Chi was a little more adversarial at the start, that evened out after the first couple of days, when he better learned his limits of socializing and when the other cats stopped freaking out QUITE as much.
For the last four or five days, Tai Chi was an increasingly sweet and friendly part of our house, going here and there as he saw fit and really fitting in as best as possible given the short time. The elder cats never accepted him, particularly not Munchkin, but Cobweb found hissing more trouble than it was worth, most of the time on these last days. Even better, by the last four or five days, Lucy was playing with Tai Chi rather than stalking him. Her happy bounding and chasing was clearly of the I've-got-a-new-friend variety. And for the last day or two, Tai Chi had actually decided to play too, some of the time. I even saw him play the I-can-touch-you game Monday evening when Lucy had laid down with her back to him.
One thing that Kimberly & I decided during this visit: four cats definitely puts you into crazy-cat-person land. They just were such a presence in a room when they were all there that you couldn't ignore the fact that you had a menagerie of little beasts in your house. Melody correctly points out that my Dad had four cats at a couple of times. And of course I'd originally wanted to adopt a pair of kittens.
Kimberly and I both miss Tai Chi now that he's gone too, something that only was vaguely the case before.
Even if Melody does keep traveling to Hawaii twice a year as she is now, I'm now pretty convinced that we can catsit Tai Chi with only minimal impact on us** and only a little wear and tear on our own kitties.
In other news, we received a letter from PG&E notifying us that our meter would be "up"graded soon***. The lying bastards backdated their letter to December 22 and sent it without postmark to try and pretend that they hadn't totally dropped the ball, but IMO it just makes them look even worse since it's such a transparent falsehood. We all know that this pristine new envelope which arrived in our mailbox wasn't mysteriously lost by the USPS for three weeks.
The CYA letter does talk about how we should contact them if we have vital life support equipment, but doesn't offer more accuracy for when we'll see our "up"grade than over the next few weeks, which means that they continue to make no provision for not killing the computers of their customers.
And they can probably get away with it too.
* The weathermen have been predicting a lot of rain lately, and we've been getting very little of it. Today, the weathermen predicts rain (even now!) and it's the most beautiful sun and warmth I've seen in a month. You just wait though: I wanted to bike adventure on Sunday, before really getting into prep-crunch for Hawaii, and it'll be raining then.
** Very nice to have my office floor clear of cat box, cat carrier, food bowl, water bowl, and all the rest, though. It looks very open and spacious, which isn't a surprise considering the fact that I had piles of junk on the floor before Tai Chi showed up, and thus I have no idea when I last saw the floor.
*** For those who missed my previous rant: they came by and tried to pull my power without notice last week.
Though I said I felt my relationship with Tai Chi was a little more adversarial at the start, that evened out after the first couple of days, when he better learned his limits of socializing and when the other cats stopped freaking out QUITE as much.
For the last four or five days, Tai Chi was an increasingly sweet and friendly part of our house, going here and there as he saw fit and really fitting in as best as possible given the short time. The elder cats never accepted him, particularly not Munchkin, but Cobweb found hissing more trouble than it was worth, most of the time on these last days. Even better, by the last four or five days, Lucy was playing with Tai Chi rather than stalking him. Her happy bounding and chasing was clearly of the I've-got-a-new-friend variety. And for the last day or two, Tai Chi had actually decided to play too, some of the time. I even saw him play the I-can-touch-you game Monday evening when Lucy had laid down with her back to him.
One thing that Kimberly & I decided during this visit: four cats definitely puts you into crazy-cat-person land. They just were such a presence in a room when they were all there that you couldn't ignore the fact that you had a menagerie of little beasts in your house. Melody correctly points out that my Dad had four cats at a couple of times. And of course I'd originally wanted to adopt a pair of kittens.
Kimberly and I both miss Tai Chi now that he's gone too, something that only was vaguely the case before.
Even if Melody does keep traveling to Hawaii twice a year as she is now, I'm now pretty convinced that we can catsit Tai Chi with only minimal impact on us** and only a little wear and tear on our own kitties.
In other news, we received a letter from PG&E notifying us that our meter would be "up"graded soon***. The lying bastards backdated their letter to December 22 and sent it without postmark to try and pretend that they hadn't totally dropped the ball, but IMO it just makes them look even worse since it's such a transparent falsehood. We all know that this pristine new envelope which arrived in our mailbox wasn't mysteriously lost by the USPS for three weeks.
The CYA letter does talk about how we should contact them if we have vital life support equipment, but doesn't offer more accuracy for when we'll see our "up"grade than over the next few weeks, which means that they continue to make no provision for not killing the computers of their customers.
And they can probably get away with it too.
* The weathermen have been predicting a lot of rain lately, and we've been getting very little of it. Today, the weathermen predicts rain (even now!) and it's the most beautiful sun and warmth I've seen in a month. You just wait though: I wanted to bike adventure on Sunday, before really getting into prep-crunch for Hawaii, and it'll be raining then.
** Very nice to have my office floor clear of cat box, cat carrier, food bowl, water bowl, and all the rest, though. It looks very open and spacious, which isn't a surprise considering the fact that I had piles of junk on the floor before Tai Chi showed up, and thus I have no idea when I last saw the floor.
*** For those who missed my previous rant: they came by and tried to pull my power without notice last week.