Thursday, July 24, 2008

We are giving up

Alas! We have lost the company of yet another kitty. It met instant death this morning in the fan of the work truck. You would think that a cat that had one encounter of the cooling kind would steer clear of vehicles known first-paw to hurt and maim. But no, our cat was not very intelligent, and kept on climbing up in there for the night. It was just a matter of time. We have buried the poor dumb thing; that made me late for work... again. Sorry, no pix.

Should we try again? I'm thinking not-- I hate being late for work. 'Course, maybe a smart cat would stay out of there; our first one did.

Keep my secretary and her husband in your prayers, please. He had a quadruple bypass today. He had a number of stents (spelling?) put in just a few months ago. I'm going to see them tomorrow after lunch.

We are looking forward to the weekend. We'll be busy. We're meeting Darren and Jen in Brooklyn for a concert Friday evening, going to the Musuem of Natural History, going to another concert Saturday evening, picking up a free hydraulic press from a friend in NJ, making it to our church Sunday morning, and going to a picnic in Hamburg Sunday afternoon.

3 comments:

Meredith said...

I think you have the wrong solution. The answer is not to eliminate a cat from your lives.

What you could do is get a cat and make sure that it has a nice warm place to sleep INSIDE your house at night. Then it will not be seeking heat near your truck engine and you will not be late for work.

Merle

Gray Lane said...

If you had been biking to work like you dreamed of doing, there would have been no fan for it to get caught in. Oh well, I don't bike to work either.

GKStauffer said...

You need to get a duck.

"PRIDE GOES BEFORE DESTRUCTION" AND IN OUR MODERN ERA, PRIDE AMONG THE NATURAL SCIENCES HAS TAKEN THE FORM OF OVERESTIMATING OUR KNOWLEDGE, OF ARROGATING FOR SCIENCE A KIND OF OMNISCIENCE THE WE DO NOT IN FACT HAVE. OR, TO REFINE IT A BIT: "PLAYING GOD" MEANS WE CONFUSE THE KNOWLEDGE WE DO HAVE WITH THE WISDOM TO KNOW HOW TO USE IT.