Coco's turn to cry out

It was Coco's turn to cry out at three in the morning. To be sure, it's a little thing and no big deal, these crying-outs by the cats. It only realigns a bathroom run. But the cats are obviously starting to climb the walls. Nevertheless, we have surface water on the lawn, so that even if the sky did not let go of another drop of rain, the cats still are not going outside until Thursday at the earliest, and it looks like we still have more rain coming.

Pop surprised me

Pop surprised me, coming out of his room just as I was getting ready to make breakfast. Of course, I champion his getting up earlier, in the hopes that it might send him to bed earlier in the night, but another twenty minutes to myself would have been nice. Besides, the man just doesn't need to sleep. Four or five hours and he is good. I hear that some people are like that. Too bad I am not, being more my mother's son in this regard.

Chef Boyardee's

Eaten only once a month, Chef Boyardee's raviolis are pretty good. Though, I probably need to force the pace and make it once every couple of weeks, and it still may be tolerable.

my DVDs

It feels so cozy watching "Broadstreet Empire" on the laptop. I may try watching my DVDs on it, after all. There is some sensibility in doing that rather than putting on the TV and running it all day, since the laptop is on all day anyway. I like the idea of getting "Black Scorpion" into my life. The only question is whether that disk-holder means it will play DVDs, or is it just for downloading items? If it works out, who knows, I might even buy "The Shield" DVDs.

the crunch of electronics

At least I didn't hear the crunch of electronics.

A little porn in the evening. I wanted to see if 'normal' mode would take care of the color bands on top of the picture, but, no, maybe the tapes have degraded, but I recall them playing fine on my old TV. That's why I thought 'normal' might work, that it might have been the 'stretching' effect of the new TV. But, no, it's something else.

Anyway, negotiaitng my way throught my dark room, I tripped on the mattress, and I am just glad that I had put away all the remote-controls.

Reading Life

I have resumed "IQ84". When I realized that I was not going to be able to take in "The Masks of Hamlet" as part of my loose reading, I picked the novel back up. I'm not dropping "Masks" again, though. I am putting it in the regular stream of book-blogging, making it the flip-side of my Hamlet-blogging, appropriately enough