There are two problems with the wall heater in my office. One is that it’s really inefficient, so it costs a lot to run and it’s also a fire hazard …
The other problem is that Ike loves the heater, so he comes in and pesters me constantly when it’s on. If I get up, he steals my chair …
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on February 6, 2008 at 3:25 am tvp wrote:
I know two things about cats:
1. They like heat.
2. They like playing rough.
So watch out. I think Ike is about to fight you for your office space.
tvp
on February 6, 2008 at 7:45 am Doug wrote:
tell me about it. He often decides he wants on my laptop while I’m working, and I have to throw him out and latch the door. That could be a heat thing too … sometimes I find a bunch of cat hair on the keyboard in the morning, as if he slept there.
on February 6, 2008 at 10:24 am tvp wrote:
Just watch your ankles.
tvp
on February 6, 2008 at 1:49 pm molly bradley wrote:
that’s a good cat.
on February 6, 2008 at 7:27 pm tvp wrote:
I say he’s a sneak.
on February 9, 2008 at 7:36 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
You didn’t know Sophie, my cat in Oakland. She was a real hoot.
When it got really hot in the summer, she liked to sleep on top of the stove in the kitchen where the gas pilot kept it the hottest spot in the house. Of course, she also just loved sleeping on tin foil and inside of plastic bags.
When Jamal was in high school, he and his friends would put her in the laundry basket and send her flying up and down the long hallway of that house we had then. She would come to a stop in a squishy crash against the wall, get out, stumble around like a drunk, and then once stable, hop back in for more. It went on endlessly, them tiring long before she did.
Sort of reminds of the time I took Meg and Molly to Santa Cruz really early one Saturday morning with the intent of being the first ones in line for that famous (wooden?) roller coaster ride. For some reason, the place was empty and there was no one there but us. We’d ride the coaster, get off, hop right back on–over and over. And over.
After a week or so of non-stop, killer headaches, I happened to read an article on the sloshing of the brain against the casings and the brain damage incurred when endeavoring in same said activities. Aw, man! Bummer.
Never been on one since, though I fear I may have already taken one ride too many and the stopping of said too late.
Hello?!
( Oh, just the ringing in my ears. Yes, well…)
on February 9, 2008 at 10:40 am Doug wrote:
Marsha, this explains so much. About Megan and Molly, I mean.
on February 10, 2008 at 4:38 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
you think?
on February 10, 2008 at 8:53 pm Lynn Bradley wrote:
I’m a thrill ride person too and in no way have I suffered from the jolts and bumps. Perfectly normal I am!