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Mousers

Here at chez hipparchia computer mouses are a favored prey:



but the predator/prey ratio is closer to this:



So I stopped at the store on the way home and bought the cheapest [$9.99] mouse in the store... the lighted [way cool blue] scroll wheel will be a help finding the mouse in a dark room [should I ever need that feature] but the eerie blue glow it's casting on the monitor screen is annoying.

Fortunately,

most of mine prefer touchy-feely. And like the yard sign that says

This property guarded by pit bulls three days a week -- You guess which three

I'll leave you to wonder which of teh 12 kittehz fall into which cat-e-gory.

Dominoes 7 [and last]

And now for my capstone post in the series!





dominoes 2009

Wonderful time-wasters, these domino videos,



but now it's time to move on.



And because I wandered off into domino land solely because of FlippyCat and because I think this is the most adorable cat video evar, here it is again.

Dominoes 5

back atcha, flippy!

Dominoes 4

now flippy takes on loki

Dominoes 3

ok, so the dominoes were meta, but hey, it's flippycat!

Dominoes 2

jason




flippy

Dominoes 1

sparta [and loki, too!]




flippy

more fabulous than you

Tag! I'm it!

YOUR INSTRUCTIONS
(should you choose to accept this mission)
* Link to the person cat [Hi, Henry!] who tagged you.
* Post the rules on your blog.
* Write six random things about yourself.
* Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
* Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
* Let the tagger know when your entry is up.



Six random things about me... me me me! It's all about me! My favorite subject.

Hmmm... my work has taken me to some interesting places... I think I'll make the 6 random things work-related.

1. I once lost a show-down with a possum. I was collecting sewage samples at the time.


2. I used to have a security clearance of some kind, not the top one, but that's all I can remember about it. Do you get to keep these things for a lifetime?


3. I know where all some parts of the bodies are buried. I used to be a hazmat emergency responder, and once when we thought we were going to be digging up methyl ethyl bad shit, we found, um, medical waste instead.


4. I like cheese. This isn't work-related [so I lied], it's an obscure TV show reference.


5. I once lost a show-down with an alligator, a big one [the alligator, not the confrontation]. I was supposed to be harvesting tomatoes [collecting samples] at an experimental farm, in a plot that had been fertilized with... sewage sludge! [some days life can be really crappy] Instead, I spent the afternoon on the roof of the nearest shed, until somebody finally came along in a really big pickup truck.


6. The dog and I once raised a litter of orphaned kittens. They were so tiny they couldn't go more than a couple of hours or so without sustenance at first, and they needed to be kept warm, so I snuck them into work in a plastic storage container everyday [they didn't stay a secret for very long]. And did you know that very young kittens need help with their peeing and pooping? I didn't, but I read it on the intertoobz, so I followed instructions [also, I let the dog take care of this part as much as possible].
   

before food --

even with food in the offing, the black one stays out of camera range --

after food --

I've been really bad about keeping up with my bloggingbuds lately, so if you saw the above kittens, consider yourself tagged.

Pledge of allegiance

awwwwwwww!

When I put together what I knew of the beginnings of PUMA, I looked for the original comment that set it all off, but no luck. Not to worry, myiq2xu [was there ever a better nic than that one?] has it.

Yes, kittens really do come from flower pots

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