I don’t know who did it, but one of the cats managed to open 29 windows of Help and Support on my computer while I was away (F1 perhaps?). Even more troubling was that the responsible cat tried to configure Windows Outlook too (I just use webmail). However, Outlook proved to be too difficult to use, so no urgent help emails were sent out. I swear I don’t mistreat the cats, your honor!
Perhaps it is time to invest in some new hardware and software…
Sydney never had much interest in catnip and it didn’t look like Toby would be much different. Bunky had bought Toby one of those simple little burlap sacks filled with catnip, and Toby played with it regularly, but not in any way that was different from his normal toys. As the sack was getting a little gross looking, we recently replaced the sack with a new sack. Just a few days later, however, Bunky was astonished to find that the sack had been shredded open and the catnip was all over the carpet. I guess that must have been an especially good crop!
In keeping with the theme of surgeries, young Toby is getting neutered today.
I introduced Toby to a harness yesterday. Harness training with Sydney went really smoothly, and I was hoping Toby might accept the harness without complaint. But boy did Toby hate that harness! Toby spent the rest of the afternoon doing rolls and trying to buck the harness of his back (obviously this was unsuccessful). I had Sydney wear his harness too in a show of support, but somehow Sydney has figured out how to bite the back clip in just the right way to release it… It’s hard for him to do, but occasionally he succeeds. This isn’t looking so good for my dream of a cat-drawn sled.
Speaking of which, we had our first flurries this morning.
It took a while to figure out how to encode video, but it was rather easy with DivX. It came out really nicely, but the quality decreased when I uploaded it to Veoh. Still, it came out much better than when I uploaded it on Google Video. The video recording on the Canon S5 IS is incredible!
The compression rate was quite good, as it dropped from about 120 Mb down to about 10 Mb. It was hard to record and wave the cat toy at the same time, but I was just testing to see how good the frame rate was.
Ughhh, so tired today. Woke up this morning to Toby’s morning ritual of walking up and down my face repeatedly the entire morning. It’s sorta cute, but really they should make kittens with snooze buttons. Toby just keeps walking up and down your face and making that weird mew-grenade sound constantly.
Sydney tried to do a front-side 360 on the ironing board again and busted it. We need to get a new ironing board now, as it barely stands up. I know the metal is not that strong (I can bend it back into shape with my bare hands), but this is ridiculous.
Pets and Plants | Kabitzin 1/17/2008 | 
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