Oh for Pete’s sake

After I returned to the apartment complex after work yesterday, I went immediately to the management office to complain about the partially painted doors on my floor (they repainted the hallways last weekend, but neglected to put more than a sloppy base coat on the fire doors on my floor, and they look like crap)….

I didn’t sleep again last night. It has become impossible to lie down and get comfortable. As much as I hated to, I called in sick this morning and took the day off. I wouldn’t have been safe behind the wheel, much less working around the animals at my job. Since I’d already arranged to…

I guess it’s all in the angle. The actual bead doesn’t really look anything like an owl, but I can see what everyone is talking about. The reflection of the center hole between two of the dots absolutely gives appearance of two owl eyes. This gives me an idea for a bead I want to…

This is CW as he looks right now. He’s been sleeping like that for over an hour and a half. It looks terribly uncomfortable, as if he’s about to slide off the back of the love seat. I don’t want to disturb him by pushing his hind legs back on top though.

The Socialist took yesterday off from work so he could take care of arranging to get his car fixed. I was rather impressed with his insurance company – less than twelve hours after he got hit his car was in for estimates. The Socialist, of course, spent most of the day admiring his half-empty glass…

Things are quiet here under my rock recently. The cats are easing into their summer laziness, and aren’t doing much worth reporting. Well, the Grey Menace did find another spider to play with, but this one lasted far shorter than the spider I documented her playing with last year. She’s still rough with her toys,…