short takes

[cellio]

What do you do if you're Hindu and your cow ate your diamonds? (link courtesy of insomnia).

This QotD post from dglenn on conservative Episcopalians and marriage is worth checking out.

goljerp wrote a while back that he had a dream that I wrote something about Mars, but I have not been inspired. So he'll just have to settle for a picture (and the knowledge that Opportunity seems to be happy so far).

I recently picked up the first season of M*A*S*H on DVD. (This used to be one of my favorite shows.) It's nice to be able to watch the episodes without the laugh track. The user interface is a little funky, though; instead of selecting this once and playing through the disc, you have to individually select each episode and choose this option. There doesn't seem to be a "just play the episodes in order until I say to stop" option, like there has been on every other DVD I've played so far. How odd.

Tomorrow is Baldur's appointment with the kitty dentist. I'm banking on the theory that a cat who is sleepy and lazy at the best of times will be especially groggy at 7am, and that getting him into a carrier unassisted will not be hard. Catching him is easy, but that's an awful lot of cat to try to manhandle.

Only two roads that form part of my commute had been plowed this morning. One of them was the street on which my garage opens. Had they not plowed it, I would have been able to just force the car out without shoveling -- but not with the mound the plow left for me. If I have to shovel my way out through plow-supplied mounds, I'd at least like to have plowed main roads. :-) (Everything was passable on the way home tonight.)

Comments

[kayre]

If your first attempt at getting the cat into the carrier fails... try wrapping him up in a towel, and stuffing towel and all in. Saves scratches at least!

[cellio]

Thanks. And for Baldur, I think I've got a beach towel around here somewhere. :-) (Just kidding. He's hefty, but not quite that hefty.)