Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Randomness

Okay, it's been awhile since I've done a post and for that I blame the cat. Why? Because I have this problem where I can't accept responsibility for anything and therefore must blame it on someone else.

Besides, she's been getting on my nerves today.

Speaking of Gidget1, she's recently, much to my chagrin, discovered a new perch that is much to her liking and little to mine. She has decided, for reasons beyond comprehension, that my rats' nest of cables (hence forth referred to as "the network") is an excellent place to rest.

Look at her over there. All smug on the couch. She's just waiting to jump all over my cables. Well, I suppose you can't look at her... yet. We're still working on getting the CatCam online.Now normally I'm fairly indulgent of Melissa's cat. I've even on occasion deigned her worthy enough to bestow upon her the title of "our cat," or, the even more ennobling, "my cat." However, I refuse to tolerate her new perch:
  1. Cat hair and electronics, as a general rule, are not good bedfellows.

  2. She insists on pushing everything out of her way. Originally the various pieces of the network were all pushed nicely, if not neatly, against the wall. It's only been in the past few weeks that they've begun their cat-powered wall-divergent migration.

  3. She feels that the cables, particularly the really small power carrying ones, are there for her chewing enjoyment when she wakes up from her nap. This nasty habit can only result in two, equally tragic, potential consequences:

    1. She fries herself2.
    2. The network comes down.
The most disturbing element of her new pattern of behavior is that it only occurs when both Melissa and myself are present. During the day she doesn't go anywhere near that side of the room, but once evening rolls around and we're both here, she heads straight for the cables. Clearly she's trying to impress Melissa by showing her how well she (Gidget3) has domesticated me into succumbing to her will.

-Dave

1Worst. Segue. Ever.
2The worst part of this consequence being that I'd have to clean up the ensuing mess.
3I guess that could just as easily be Melissa.

11 Comments:

Blogger Anna hypothesized...

Ah the enticing hum of electrical wires ...

What you all need is a basket.

 
Blogger Dave hypothesized...

Personally, I've been looking for a long narrow table with a shelf just above ground level to go along that wall. That way we could put the network devices on the shelf, tuck the cables away underneath, and have a table for uhh... placing things on.

The only problem has been finding a table narrow enough that the pull-out sofa can still perform its namesake.

 
Blogger ARM hypothesized...

Cats are ineffable creatures. They seem to like to sleep in uncomfortable places for whatever nit-witty reasons their little brains conjure. Freelove, one of my cats, thinks my boyfriend is horrifying, and she will run like all get out from him... until he is eating meat. Boy, then she isn't afraid of him at all. In fact, she perches right next to him, awaiting an offering. Once dinner is done, he is horrifying again. Who knows?

 
Anonymous Anonymous hypothesized...

Perhaps one solution for your super-narrow table would be the time-honored tradition of two bricks and a board! If two shelves are required, then four bricks and two boards can suffice. This combination can be repeated ad infinitim until you develop your own tower of unspeakable tackiness which then collapses onto luckless observers!

Very neat, perfectly tailored in length and width, and best of all: CHEAP!

Dave-Dad

 
Anonymous Anonymous hypothesized...

By the way, your Worst. Segue. Ever. is wrong. This is the Worst. Segway. Ever.

I am emailing you the picture, as I can't add it here.

 
Blogger Dave hypothesized...

Actually, it is segue. "Segway" is not a word.

(I accidently deleted the picture before looking at it, so I'm not sure if there's some joke I'm missing here.)

 
Anonymous Anonymous hypothesized...

Yeah you are. And I did not misspell "Segway"! I resent you the picture

 
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