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Cat Update

Last night just before bed Jen and I went outside to see if the abandoned cat was around.  As soon as we opened the door we saw it standing at the end of our front walkway.  When we stepped outside it ran away.  

A few minutes ago I walked over to the box where we left some food and water.  It doesn’t look like it was touched, by the cat or any of the thousand other small critters who live in the woods.

If we can catch it we will bring it to the MSPCA down the street.  If it’s okay the question will be do we try again to integrate a second cat into the house?

Annoyed

Not sure that I like the new Hipstamatic.  It seems pretty buggy and I won’t load some of my older purchases.  

Also not sure I like the fact that this Japanese restaurant has the dirtiest fish tank ever.

Also definitely sure I do t like that our take out order want received. 

    
 

Some Asshole Left This

When I came home tonight I saw a cat near the trees in between our house and the house next door. There was also a box with a cover. Like the kind of box printer paper comes in. Jen came home a couple of minutes later and she noticed the same thing. We walked over to see if we could find the cat because the box was giving us both a really bad feeling. We walked slow, calling for the cat. It never came out of the trees. We lost sight of it pretty quickly. What we did see was that the box cover had holes cut into the top and there was a towel lining the bottom. I think our bad feeling was confirmed.

Someone abandoned the cat. They put it in the box and dropped it on our street. Some mutt. Some scumbag piece of dirt. Some pile of filth abandoned this cat on our street when we are literally walking distance from a huge animal shelter.

Now what do we do? Call the MSPCA? They always say don’t leave food out for strays, but I think it’s warranted in this case. We left a little food and a little water. When we came back in after delivering, the cat was sitting by our front steps. When we approached she slinked away. Poor little kitty.

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So Close

I left the driveway at 7:20 this morning and pulled into a parking spot in Westwood at 9:34.  Two hours and fourteen minutes.  Only one minute shy of the Methuen->Westwood record.  So close!

Again, any of you singing the praises of September can kiss my enormously fat ass.

Happy Birthday, Mom

We celebrated my mother’s 75th birthday today.  Everyone wish her a happy birthday!

My Aunt brought a couple of old pictures with her.  There is a red head in this one who is the spitting image of my nephew… 

 
Look at that handsome devil!  He and my nephew could be twins!  Who is that fine looking dude?  It’s me!  Can you believe it?  My sister’s son and I are twins, just 40 years removed.  Not sure how the logistics work there though.

Now check out this happy family snapshot…

  
The fine looking dude in the coat in the center of the pic is once again your humble narrator.  I’m standing on my dad’s lap.  My mother is to our right.  My sister is photo bombing on the lower right corner.  Behind me is my aunt Nancy.  I assume the guy whose face is blocked is Uncle Tom.  The other happy couple is the really important part of this picture.  They are Nana and Papa.  My mother’s parents.

I was at Middlesex in my late 20’s when my grandmother passed away.  I was fortunate enough to have such a stellar person in my life for a very long time.  My grandfather however passed away in 1972.  I was only a year old.  Obviously I have no memories of him, but I knew that I had met him at least.  I always had that.

Now thanks to this picture I have proof.  Aunt Nancy brought this today to show how much my nephew resembles me.  I don’t think she realized that it would mean so much to me for another reason.  I’m very thankful she brought it.  It’s got to be one of, if not the, only picture of me and my Papa.

New Old Song

Written in pieces in 1994 and put together and finished off sometime in 1995 during my “arrangements too complicated for people to actually play” phase.

Recorded in January 2015 during my “Ancient History Revisited Volume 2” phase.

Mixed in September 2015 during my “I have songs ready to mix?” phase.

I’m not terribly pleased with this recording. I might remix it. I might scrap big chunks of it (I’m looking at you guitar solo and vocal harmonies). Probably not. It’s done and done.

Who Knew?

I’m trying (and so far failing) to turn this weekend into a recording music weekend.  I knew I had a bunch of unfinished noodles in GarageBand.  The plan was to try and finish one or two of them.

Little did I know but I have three songs finished and ready to mix.  One is an old song from last January.  The other two are brand new from a failed attempt at an album-in-a-day from the day the bathroom remodeling started.

Who new?