Cat memories, Squirrels, and Statistics

Damn. Came to work without my wallet. Don’t even have enough change to get forty cent coffee out of the machine. Most days I go all day without eating. Today, since I can’t buy anything, I’ve decided I’m starving. Go figure.

I was going through the pictures from my digital camera, trying to get them sorted and organized so I can burn them onto a CD for back-up. I stumbled across a few from when she was a mere dust bunny. She’d snuck onto the same chair the Warrior Princess was on and curled up. WP was astonished, and had no idea what to do with the trespasser. To this day I’m amazed the kitten survived its initial encounters with WP, who has no patience for anything that isn’t feeding her.

I moved my plants out to the balcony a couple of weeks ago, so it has of course gotten cold again. What bothers me more though is the fact that this year the Balcony Squirrel has discovered my beautiful jade tree. He doesn’t like the taste apparently, but he needs to keep sampling it to see if he’s changed his mind about it. Each day I find half a dozen or so punctured leaves bitten off of it lying about on the cement beneath the plant stand. It doesn’t help that my neighbor, Migraine Man, has taken to leaving peanuts out for this felon over on his balcony one floor down and across the hall from where I am. The squirrel has now learned that Balcony = Food and is driving the rest of the apartment dwellers berserk.

Work continues to be horrid. I have tons of data I’ve collected to document our problem, and no idea how to go about analyzing it. It’s totally unprofessional, but I think I’ll sneak the Excel file of the raw data out on a diskette tonight and see if I can’t con The Prof (who was working on a doctorate in Statistics for a while) for some advice. I’d like to have something slick to present on Monday to rub a few people’s in. See how they like it for a change.