Lily Pad the cat joined me for one of my conference calls today. She sat on my desk for a couple of minutes. When she walked away her tail was caught on camera. Other than that, no one noticed her.
Robin Sparkles the cat also joined me for work today, but not during any meetings. I was able to snag a couple of photos of her last visit.
There are only 26 minutes left in the work day, so if Lily wants to pose for a work day photo she’d better hurry up and come back.
I just saw some backyard wild kingdom violence. Well… it was mostly over by the time I looked outside, but I saw a little of the aftermath.
I have the window open in my home office room. I heard a bang outside followed by lots of angry bird noise. I looked outside and…
…right in front of my window was a hawk standing on the ground eating a fresh kill. I think the fresh kill was a sparrow. It was tough to say. I thought maybe a chipmunk at first but it was definitely a small bird. I reached for my phone to take a picture but the hawk and it’s lunch flew away into the woods.
I guess we’ll have to settle for a cat photo as my photo a day shot.
This was taken before the murder. Robin had left by the time the horror went down.
I mentioned the other day that I took a couple of plants from the cellar and moved them into my home office/step son’s bedroom and put them on the table with the clippings from Bellana’s plant in the hopes that I could bring them back from the brink of imminent death.
Last night when I got home from work I checked on them… and one of them had been almost entirely eaten… I think we can safely put the blame for this one at least one of two cats, if not both cats.
Sorry, cellar plant.
That moment when you’re running a little late getting through your morning routine and you remember you don’t have enough gas in the car to get you to the office.
Ugh.
Fortunately the traffic was awful but normal levels of awful (unlike yesterday which was awful times two) and I got to my desk with a few minutes to spare.
I have a story from the road too. Want to hear it?
You know that old saying, there’s never a cop around when you need one?
I was stuck in a 1.5 mile long line of gridlocked traffic trying to exit route 93 South and merge onto route 128/95 South. Some jerk off in a pickup with Pennsylvania plates decided to drive up to the exit ramp in the breakdown lane. Prick. Schmuck. There’s never a state trooper around when you need one, I thought. At that very instant, an unmarked state trooper pulled into the breakdown lane behind him, put on his flashers, and pulled said prick/schmuck over.
Finally! I’ve been driving for 37 years and that is the first time I can ever remember seeing karma kick some jack ass in the teeth like that. It was glorious.
I had two cats hanging out with me while I was wrapping up my morning routine today. I may have nearly sat on one of them at one point, but she seems to have forgiven me.
Oh my goodness, was today’s commute epically awful.
It took me 49 minutes to get out of my tiny little city. It usually takes about five.
It took me one hour and 55 minutes to get to the Foxborough office. It usually takes about an hour and 10-15 minutes.
Today was just awful. AWFUL, I tells ya! It’s almost like the universe has been upended. I mean, first the Florida Panthers win the Stanley Cup and now this? What’s next? I’m afraid to even think about it!
I’m in Foxborough for the morning so at least I am off the road. At last.
I’m going to see if I can bring a couple of plants from the cellar back to life. Probably not, but we’ll give it a shot. I actually have a couple more that I need to bring upstairs to be part of the experiment.
I’m having a dinner and a movie stay at home date night with the love of my life.
Order of the Phoenix, which we saw in the theater together a bunch of times while we were dating.
The weather was garbage when we got up this morning, but by lunch it had cleared up nicely. I had a mini-cookout. I made us burgers and fries for lunch. I hope Jen enjoyed it. We were watching Disney Cruise videos while we ate… and now we want to go swimming in the Caribbean.
I have been in the Atlantic Ocean. I have been in the Pacific Ocean. I touched a Great Lake once… actually… twice, I think. I’ve been in lakes and ponds and rivers. I have never been in a Sea though. Taking a dip in the Caribbean could fix that oversight.
Okay, Robert. Back to your chores. That bathroom isn’t going to clean itself.
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