random bits

[cellio]

We went to alaricmacconnal's and Elsbeth's yesterday for a New Year's Day party, which meant more gaming. I had fun playing more Dixit (blackpaladin, which expansions were in there?), and Dani played Constantinopolis, a resource-management game that sounded similar to Puerto Rico but is twice as long (or thereabouts). I haven't played it yet.

2013 was getting off to a great start but then I had to go back to work. Powerball, you have failed me. :-) (Ok, I've never actually bought my own lottery ticket, but when a group is forming at work I always buy in because I'd sure feel stupid if I didn't and half the company won buckets of money and left.)

Resolution? 1280x1024, but maybe I'll get a new monitor this year. (I think it was merle_ who inspired that idea.) Though I'd rather keep the aspect ratio I have now (i.e. I'm not so thrilled with the widescreen monitors that are all the rage these days).

Orlando is currently chasing his tail. I thought that was a dog thing. (He's got one white pixel on the end of it, but I don't think it's that in particular that he's chasing.) More generally, he and Giovanni seem to be settling in, though I still can't pick either up for more than a few seconds and I had only 50% success on last week's vet visit. Giovanni has gained a pound in the last month, so I guess Orlando isn't being as pushy about the food dishes as I thought.

Netflix only gives you about a week's notice when something is going to disappear from their streaming service. Last week I noticed that Farscape, which had been languishing there for a while, was slated to disappear, so I watched the first eight episodes to decide if I want to queue up DVDs. It looked to me like interesting characters and underwhelming plots, but I'm mindful that some good shows (like B5) took a while to settle in. To those who've seen it: does it get better?

Apparently I can't post comments on LJ tonight, so some of you will probably get some belated comments when that changes. Let's see if I can post an entry.

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[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Some cats seem more inclined to chase their tails than others. (And some will chase other cats' tails, but the other cats tend not to appreciate this.)

Years ago my parents had an older, very dignified and proper cat who would sometimes chase her tail while on the seat of a bicycle (the bicycle was stored standing up, so the seat made a decent cat-sized place for her to perch where she could see people and be social). The only catch was that we couldn't laugh out loud while this was happening because, as I mentioned, she was a very dignified and proper cat, and she knew that cats were not to be laughed at, and so if she heard us laughing she would stop and leave (with a "harumph" sort of cat body language)... so we all learned to laugh silently, because it was impossible to see her acrobatics and not laugh.

A former housemate of mine had a cat who would sometimes chase her tail around the horizontal part of the arm of a chair (the side edge of the chair back, side edge of the seat, and the horizontal and vertical parts of the arm made a hollow square.) This cat didn't mind being laughed at (or didn't notice, I'm not sure) so silence wasn't required when we watched her. :)

[cellio]

*laugh*! But silently. :-)