Cats

I think Sammy is mad at me today. He was here this morning, but when I brought the food out, he didn't even eat, but simply left, as if to register his contempt and disdain. I had a good, straight four-hour sleep going into the dawn, and while this is great for me, it means the cats have to go a little hungry. Well, it is grocery day, and I do not have the time to worry about my big old man-cat, such a sensitive baby.

Stephen King

“To write is human, to edit is divine.”

-- Stephen King, "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft"

Pet Bowl

I was finally able to take care of the water dish that we have had since Princess and Bo - since Bo was still a puppy, I think. I got one of those stainless steel ones. The cheap plastic dishes that mom and pop got had been eroding for years. I could imagine the cats drinking little plastic scrapings in their sips of water. I was thinking about ordering one through Amazon, but I managed to take care of it through our 'grocery day' business. About seven bucks with tax. Pop did not mind much.

Next to Godliness

I am reminded that whenever I am in doubt about whether to take a quick shower or not, I should race to the bathroom and start the water. It always feels good afterward, especially after a good, sweaty wank on the Chikan Express. The problem is that it can be hard to overcome my laziness, and in the air-conditioned house one does not feel the sweaty griminess as bad. But it really is alright to take a shower more frequently than every other day.

Closed Captions

I have turned on to the power of closed captions, at least when I am streaming movies on the computer. I first hit upon the convenience of the feature when watching "A Serbian Film" on YouTube. When I started watching it, it automatically had the English subtitles. Later, when I came back to the movie, the subtitles were gone, and I became a little desperate. I really wanted to watch the rest of this nasty little film, and I decided to start clicking on options. I first hit the 'Closed Captions' button, and I got it in one. Then, later in the day, when I was watching "Asylum" (Starring Natasha Richardson and Ian McKellan) on the laptop, I had trouble trying to hear the dialogue on the poor speakers, and McKellan's faint English elocution was not helping. I decided to flip on the closed captions, and found it the most enjoyable experience to read along. This is not something I can do when I am eating a meal, but there is absolutely no problem when I am just hit-and-run streaming it, especially when I have the laptop in my face. I am inclined to use this feature more regularly for such streaming, so that I do not miss any dialogue, as a critical word or line seems to get lost in a lot of movies, being lost in the background noise, or just simply rendered ... indistinct.