FedEx; Cat Tricks; Wed - Fri; "Kyle XY" Preview

I've been intending to post this for weeks, but I keep forgetting about it. Alas I can not take credit for the observation, nor do I know to whom to give credit.

Have you ever noticed - I mean really noticed - the logo for FedEx? They have done something that is very, very clever.

Notice anything? Give the logo a click and note the part in red. What better way to indicate you're a delivery agency than by placing an arrow in your logo.

The cats and I play a variety of games during the day.

First is the wake up game.

I used to leave magazines on the floor when I went to bed, but Hermes found out if he shredded them, it made just enough noise to wake me up. So I moved the mags to the top of the bookcase in the living room. But he figured if he shredded them in there, it might also work. Actually, it didn't, but that didn't stop him. So I've had to hid the magazines in a drawer.

Next I made the mistake of leaving books out in the bedroom. Opppps! Same thing! I'm not sure how he manages to open and shred at the same time. So the books went to the top of the bookcase in the living room. Nope! Same thing! But there are some shelves above the bed that he can not jump to, so I've started using it.

I'm just hoping he never figures out that he can pull books out of the bookcase, and then shred them. Although, I have noticed a few with slash marks on the cover.

The second part of the wake up game is to knock over the trash basket and rip at the plastic liner. I have to remind myself to put the basket in the bathroom and make sure the door is closed.

Next is the let's-help-make-the-bed-game. Which consists of jumping on the sheets as many times as possible. Extra points if you can get between the bottom and top sheets. Points are awarded as follows: each leap onto the bed is worth five points for the kitties. Each cat catch by me before they make it is five points for me. At the end of 20 minutes, the score is usually: cats, 3000 points; me, 35 points.

The newest game involves Tiger, Tiger. It's figuring out how he can slip around me when I open the carport door. There's a big world out there, and he certainly wants to see it. Once he's out, he is soooooo casual about it. Like WOW! Look at all this!

In Wednesday's journal, I forgot to mention that I did not feel well, so I slept most of the day. I did not even go to lunch. Late in the evening I did rake some in the back. If I don't do a little each day, the yard will never get clean.

Thursday I did some inside cleaning - the AC metal vents. This is always a pain to clean. There are four rows, and there are around 40 vents in each row, and the only way to clean them is one by one.

You may have noticed that I don't mention much about inside cleaning. That's because there's not a lot I can do until I can get rid of some of the furniture, plates, clothing samples, lamps, rugs, treadmill, etc. And I can't do that until I'm sure the bankruptcy proceedings have run their course.

Also Thursday, I did some more raking outside. The front really looks good. But the back is still covered in a lot of kerfuffle. (OK! I thought that kerfuffle meant the small debris that collects in a yard - twigs, grass cuttings, mulch, etc. But that's not what it says at TheFreeDictionary. So where did I get that definition? And I can't find a similar word that would apply.)

Anyway, once all the raking is done, I can mow. And that should make it look much better. I mowed once or twice before raking, and it looked terrible.

Today, I could not stand the idea of lunch at the same buffet place. So I went to O'Charley's. Whose food never seems to rise above medium. The salmon was decent. The vegetables were either hard or mushy. And the roll was semi-tasteless. Even the sweet tea was so-so.

I headed off to WalMart to buy supplies - paper towels, cleanser, sponges, canned cat food, liquid soap, bottled sweet tea, cokes. The one food item was cup cakes.

And in a moment of sheer self indulgence, I bought a Jimi Hendrix tee shirt. Chocolate color, Jimi is in a brown and green camouflage pattern with a bright yellow edge. Now that I look at it, I'm beginning to feel guilty about having bought it on my limited income. It costs $11.44, which was cheaper than lunch, so I don't feel too guilty. But I'll have to watch non-essential purchases.

By the way, I was reading the latest "Details," with the ever so delectable Wentworth Miller on the cover, at lunch. "Details" always has a single page called "Know + Tell." Unusual and very scary statistics.

In this case, it mentioned that WalMart has a secret data center on the Arkansas-Missouri border where the company keeps info about its customers with a storage capacity of 460 terabytes (A terabyte is one-trillion bytes of data.) The article goes on to note that the total amount of info on the Internet is 230 terabytes.

In another part of the same page, a survey by SkillSoft, a consulting firm, indicates that 97% of IT professionals are "traumatized" by their work. Most likely because of the motherfuckers in management who have no idea what the shit is involved in a project.

I've been wondering if there would be an attempt to explain to Kyle what being gay meant. So I'll be curious to see where they go with this. So far, the series has been very upfront about sexual issues.

PAX!