Cruelty update and miscellany

Levittown Cat Killer Pleads Guilty

Man pleads guilty to burning cat

If I get advance word of when the sentencing is scheduled to happen, I’ll let you know.

I’ve run into a dry period. Not much to say and not much happening. I’m on the cusp of many things. I start a writing class next week. I start speaker training for the local organ donation awareness group the end of this month. This weekend I’m hoping to finish my planters (which I’d intended to be for flowers but which instead have turned into mostly herbs and vegetables).

I may have had Monday off, but my company makes up for it by increasing daily output by 25% for the rest of the week. This makes for long days, and I don’t anticipate getting home before 6:30 any day this week.

I did get a free lunch out of a visiting vendor yesterday. They want to use our facility for some research, and since I’m their contact point I guess they’ve decided to wine and dine me (without the wine part). I’ve warned him repeatedly that I’m just the messager and that loftier desks than mine make final decisions regarding what research we’ll accept here at our facility. So, while the lunch may have been futile on his part, it was a welcome change for me.

On a happy note: The neighbor kids had taken to playing badminton back behind the building instead of playing in front of the building in the parking area. I strongly suspect that management spoke to their parents about the window that the Spawn of Satan broke with her basketball. This not only gets them away from the cars (which I feared were destined to be the next victims of said basketball) but also gives the cats something to watch in the evenings.

That isn’t to say all is well. The other week SofS got hold of a pair of garden clippers and took all the new growth she could reach off a blue spruce across the way. There have been no clippers near my Canterbury Bells (which are busy putting forth their next generation of flower buds) so it could be worse.