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Explorer the Cat getting ready to do a little toe pouncing.

Intimidating fellow. Any chance he may be of Danish descent?

Pictures of Explorer the Cat make me live. They are a bright spot in an otherwise depressing and frightening time.

I just got a box from Amazon that had some tea and some powered cream in it. I took the tea and cream out of it and set the box down. Explorer the Cat took control of the box almost as soon as I put it down.

My son-in-law has a tale from his teenage years. The home of a friend of his had a basement that was a big open space with a wall in the middle - not connected to other walls. In other words you could treat the basement as an oval track. The cats did. In one corner was a window, and a bed under the window. The cats would, after running a few laps, would jump up and touch-and-jump off the bed to go outside for a bit. In the middle of the night. My son-in-law stayed there one night, and slept in that bed. So he was suddenly awakened by a cat bouncing off his stomach heading for the window. And then another. By the time the third one came, he was sitting up, so the third and fourth cats crashed into his side. The bed being directly under the window got a cold draft at night, so the lead cats suddenly discovered the hard way that he had closed the window. And he got cats landing on his head.

After spending most of the night huddled up close to me, Explorer the Cat has the zips this morning. Glad to see it, as I'd rather have an active happy cat than one freaking out and hiding from the world.

Despite not being feverishly enthusiastic about any of the candidates (and grateful for simply not being feverish) I voted in the primary This time, the "I Voted" sticker they handed out had a picture of a Manatee (Manatee County, Florida) I would much rather vote for a Manatee than most of the available Elephants and Donkeys

I was with a real bitch yesterday. She was demanding to be petted, licking my hand, wagging her tail, staring at me with her big eyes. If I took a break, she got up and rested her front paws on my legs and gave me a "You know you're not done." look.

If Cats would have bothered to write their own hieroglyphics and spent less than eighteen hours a day napping, I and my relatives would have been out of our jobs

Explorer the Cat on Godzilla in the meatloaf pose.

On a good day, depending on what news I've read that day.

I may be able to manage this level of love for other humans myself

I put some catnip in Explorer the Cat's smaller box. First time she has had it, to the best of my knowledge. She went nuts and is still rolling around in the box.

Explorer the Cat in her larger cardboard box.

Explorer the Cat just being a cat on a messy floor.

Explorer the Cat looking out at the rains (yesterday's photo)

Android, iOS

I miss you guys. All the frequent posters. All the folks I've bumped into. All of you. I only wish I could have told you all how much I love you and appreciate all the things you've said and done with me in my time here. Cheers to Hack, Zorua, Minstrel, Looney, and all the others whose names I've sadly forgotten. I'm sorry for all the bad things I've done, and I miss y'all.

Over the last week of so, I've been spending more time in bed than at my desk. I'm awake and reading, but not where I should be. EtC has taken to waiting for me to settle in, then climbs into the space between my body and my elbow and curls up in a little cat ball.

My brother is a scrub tech. OR staff are being repurposed as there isn't as much call for surgery now as normal. He is working like 4 or 5 cases a week. One of the things that scrubs are being used as at his current hospital is monitoring people going in and out of rooms that have C-19 cases. Scrubs spend a lot of time making sure that sterile fields are kept sterile, so checking that a person PPE is good is more or less what they are trained for.

Explorer the Cat getting ready to blast into the living room.

She was missing you.

I'm in the living room, working on the workstation Godzilla. Explorer the Cat has had enough of running around and because I'm not in the comfy bed has take up her normal daytime sleeping area, on top of my socks and undies.

I ended up getting enough sleep that I don't think it was a hypomanic episode, so it must have been an Adderall reaction. Thanks for those people that reacted, I appreciate that.

Normally Explorer the Cat finds a place to hang out for the day and does just that and finds a new place the next day, making finding her a bit of a challenge some days. For the last week or so I haven't had much of a problem finding here as she in my underwear box every day. I suspect this may be her permanent "I'm not in the bed hanging out with The Human right now" place.

Explorer is no more odd than any other cat, less so than some I've had.

Aye, the good Scots blood runs strong in this one, laddie

Explorer the Cat has found my sock and underwear box. Looks like I'm going to need to get used to having cat hair on my shorts.

Sorry to hear that about your wife, but thankfully the rest was positive.

I hope Biden is up to the challenge. He's not exactly stellar material. Well, maybe actually stellar material, that's where the higher elements came from; ... ok, not helpful. He's not great. I hope he can beat the other geezer with the weasel on his forehead.

Cat drifting...

I think the same is true for most of the people in Florida They will say anything without thinking about it

Forget the squeal of rubber on pavement Claws on wood or, even better, linoleum, is the real sound of speed and an impending crash

My wife used to have a sweet gray semilonghair kitty named Chantinelle, affectionately known as Doofus. One time Doofus sat too close to a candle and managed to get the very outermost tip of her tail hairs lit on fire. My wife all but had a heart attack frantically putting it out again. And then Doofus gave her an annoyed look as if to ask what all the fuss was about, never having noticed what almost happened to her tail tip.

I woke up around 11:45 PM and needed to go to the bathroom. Explorer the Cat was dashing about the house until I finished. When I got back in bed and had picked up the chromebook she laid down by my ribs and curled up in a little ball, causing me to have an Awwww moment.

Some things Chtuwin, somethings Chtulhus.

That became quite common knowledge recently.

I wasn't blehing over the size of the hail, but that it existed at all.

In RPG, Cat posts pictures of You!

You have a cat. Your world now consists of cat beds, cat food, and cat toys. Nothing else. Which are you? (Hopefully not cat food.)

You do not really need to work with the computer. What you need to do is PAY ATTENTION TO THE CAT!

Well, the darting about the house phase is over, now it's just sit on the desk and make human's life hard.

Why in the world would they have? They had you and your family to do it for them.

Current events have kind of been the elephant in the forums of late. I am sorry if the pandemic is a topic people would rather not think of here. But I cannot stop thinking about it. The world is at war in a way it hasn't been my entire lifetime. And this time, the front line consists of some of the most ordinary and ignored people in society. Delivery workers. Grocery store employees. Sanitation personnel. Health care specialists. Usually all but invisible, they are the ones that keep us all alive. My sister in law is a practicing M. D. My brother is severely immunocompromised. They are both at grave risk. And because of the nature of the crisis, they cannot come close to one another and will most likely not be able to for months to come. That's just two people in my near family that have had their lives turned upside down. My spouse has three family members working in health care as well. I myself am not in the front lines. I might yet have the opportunity to, if things go bad enough. I am a paramedic in the reserve of the Danish Army and may be called on to serve if the situation requires it. I devoutly hope things will not go that bad, but if they do, I will be ready. Until then I give of my excess money to where people may need it. To all of my friends here: Be safe and take good care of yourselves. Isolate yourselves, not just for your own sake but for the sake of everybody else as well. Do not trust the disinformation. And if you need to, share your problems with the rest of us. I am certain there are people here who are willing to help you. ~the Old Hack.

Cute. That was her this morning alright.

I've gone back to bed to read the interwebs on my Chromebook. Explorer the Cat has decided that this would be a good time to lay across my chest just in front of the computer. Actually of all the on the body places she could lay, this is about ideal as it does't interfere with using the computer.

Explorer the Cat getting ready to do that house dashing thing she does in the morning.

Ah, she found the butt warmer!

That's what I meant saying "Yeah, I know, those hashtags don't mean what they say". I'm aware of how it was used and even why, I just find it weird. Yeah, unbelievable what can happen in country claiming to be civilized. To be fair, there is more "low level" criminals between those black folks - because there is more poverty between them as well, and "low level" criminality is powered by poverty. Of course, that doesn't give ordinary people, much less police, right to shot black people just because of their color. (High level criminals are rarely shot at, no matter their color. Mostly because earth-to-air missiles are hard to get. Middle level criminals are shot at more often, but color still doesn't matter, as everyone looks same behind the dark window of limousine. And they are likely more often white because of opportunity.) If you mean Germany - controlled territory (Poland, France ...), like, seriously? If the situation would be THAT bad NOONE would dare tweet "Black Lives Matter", because doing that would get you AND your family being shot at - and you would know exactly what was the cause. It would also be clearly written into all official papers and the policemen doing it would not just get off free, they will be praised for following orders. In worst case the situation might be like Jews BEFORE WW II. Black Lives Matter Too would be much more logical tag, because THAT's what's that SUPPOSED to mean.