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Friday, August 15, 2003 Today I am feeling: amused 
Books I am reading: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E. L. Konigsburg Life Everywhere - The Maverick Science of Astrobiology D. Darling Games I am playing: Asheron's Call [online RPG] Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings (free trial) [online RPG] Well, the cat decided to go for a swim today. I asked her, as I stepped out of the house, if she would like to go for a walk with me to the mailbox to mail some letters. She ignored me, so I took that as a "no". So, I took off to the mailbox and came back not more than five minutes later, and there were waves in the pool. Huh odd, it's not windy. Then, in the patio, I see a big wet spot, hmmm ... even odder ... and then over in the corner near a bush, I see a wet little kitty furiously licking the icky pool water off herself. I laugh. I couldn't resist. She didn't seem to bothered by it, but gave me a dirty look when I asked "What's wrong, Kaia, did you fall in the pool?" Damn, the first time the cat falls in the pool, and I miss it. And she probably learned her lesson, too: every other cat I've ever had who has fallen or jumped into the pool has never, ever, done it again. I did teach her to avoid the pool when I first started letting her outside, and she's usually very careful, but my guess is she was chasing a bug alongside the edge and maybe the bug flew over the pool and kitty unthinkingly followed it. Or maybe she just mis-stepped, she is a bit of a klutz for a cat. In other news, there was a huge blackout on the east coast yesterday. Better them than us, here on the west coast, but hey, we had ours a couple years ago thanks to Gray Davis and his mismanagement of the "power crisis" which gave his minions perks. But that's another issue. Don't get me started on HIM. But in any case, it kinda makes ya wonder how ONE plant going out could cause power to go out in almost the entire state of New York, as well as several other states hundreds of miles away AND in Canada. Is the system that prone to failure? I'll bet the terrorists are taking notes. You'd think there would be a lot of redundancy built into the system, so if one part or two parts or even three parts fail, the other parts can re-route AND handle the increased traffic, even during peak use. Apparently, too many people were using their air conditioners or something. If I had air conditioning I'd use it too. Huh, who woulda thought? Anyway, I hope they fix it cuz every time there's a major blackout in New York, they claim it will never happen again, but it always does.
[ 11:51:00 AM ]
Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!
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