Kitty Duty Expiring...and....Smokin'

Well, it's almost to the end of my house-sitting period. I get "relieved of duty" on Thursday night. I'm not sure how the kitties will react to their owners returning. Percival has gotta quite attached to me and now usually sleeps in bed, under the covers with me. I never thought I'd be sleeping with a pussy so near. ;)

After yesterday's email volley's back and forth, we decided I really SHOULD bake one of the pies in the freezer. So I got up early to bake the pie so it would be freshly bake and steaming hot in the office in the morning. Unfortunately, I neglected to put a cookie sheet under the pie and it bubbled over and leaked in to the oven, cause a bit of smoke toward the end. Luckily the smoke detector didn't go off, but I now have some over cleaning to do when I get back to the house tonite. :)

Email Taunts and Apple Pie

Ok, first thing you must realize is the boss' wife makes THE BEST apple pies on the face of the planet. They are simply perfect. Light, flaky crust, spiced to perfection, and made from only the best apples.

Well we at the office have been basically BEGGING for apple pies for the last couple months now to no avail. (The response was we're waiting for the apples to get back in season.) Well, today at the office we just received an email from the "Dude" (Boss) that the Dudette (Boss' wife) was in the kitchen making one of her famous apple pies while they stayed up at his sister's place in Montana....part of their 30th anniversay trip. Well of course, that email just got the office all riled up which then promptly started an email volley back and forth...with everything from "You'll never see the kitties alive again" to "the brush fire in your front yard didn't do too much damage" being sent.

Somehow, I got dragged in to it melee after someone suggested that Percival was now on oxygen but the EMTs say he'll be fine as soon as his furr stops smoldering! Eventually, I revealed that I was in charge of 2 apple pies, left by the Dudette in the freezer at their house for over 4 months...FOUR MONTHS...that the office staff was never told existed! Well it was decided (after I revealed I had been allowed to bake one by the Dudette, under major protests from the Dude) that I would bake a pie in retaliation.

Oh the price of taunting us with FRESH HOMEMADE HOT APPLE PIE...

Hospitalization

My best friend in Kentucky has landed in the hospital. She's been experiencing some stomach pains for the last couple weeks. She hit the doctor who sent her to a specialist for a few tests. When she went in to get the results of the tests, he admitted her to the hospital because all the tests came back negative. She was getting more tests done today but I haven't heard anything yet. They've already eliminated Gal Bladder and Appendix though. But I'm getting worried about her because they don't have a clue what's wrong yet.

Pain thy name is Percival

Once of the kitties at the place I'm house sitting was less than accomodating last night. He desparately required attention...to the point of keeping me awake for most of the night. I think he's REALLY starting to miss his owners. I keep jumping up on the bed and rubbing up against me, meowing mournfully. Hopefully, he'll calm down cause he's got another 7 days of me before he sees them again.

Gay Movie Surge

A few posts back I mentioned a new movie coming out with a gay subtext called "Brokeback Mountain". Well here's one that totally bends the thriller genre... "Hellbent". All the main characters are gay...in fact the movie is set in West Hollywood, so that should give you some idea. Check it out here.

400

Who would have thought that I'd make it to 400 posts?! After all the delays, the laziness, the departures for years on end...this is my four-hundredth post to my site. Oh the sites gone through numerous changes since post one way back in 2001. But then so has the world... September 11th, the Iraq War, the Mars Rovers, Columbia, the tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and on and on. So rather than look back....here's a look forward....

To the next 400...I hope I make it. ;)

WORMED...Part 2

Well i finally am having to format the system and re-install everything. Neither McAfee or Norton could remove it. They SAID they did, but after you reboot, the Antivirus program is disabled (by the worm deleting some of it's DLL) and then worm is reinstalled and running. If it wasn't so annoying & dangerous, watching all those "Scanning Email..." boxes appear in the lower right would be funny!

Oh well, it's almost done, and there is good news... I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico.

Just Kidding. :)