It's Caturday.

Here are your goddamn cat pictures.







Making LOLcats is left as an exercise for the reader.

Thursday Shindig Photos

Richter Scales + Rock Band = crazy delicious!

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~CKL

Communication!

Humans can be so dopey! You would think with those huge heads of theirs they'd have more smarts, but it just isn't so. Half the time I'm telling them we need food, they try to play with me; and then, when I'm telling them I need playtime, they give us food!

It's possible they just get confused about which is which. The stretchy red string is for playing. The big bag with food in it is for eating. One does not equal the other!

Training humans can be really tough sometimes.

I can smell home.

We're staying in another mini-house, but I know we are close to home. The humans went to the book-place and came back with a bunch of books. They smell just like the books that came from the book-place close to home.

Every night this week, when the humans came home, they've smelled like the people that used to come over to our real house. Different people every day, but they all smell familiar. A lot of them helped empty out our real house before we started going from mini-house to mini-house.

At first, I wondered why the humans didn't just take us home. Then I remembered how empty and dusty our real house was when we left. I wouldn't want to come home to that.

I hope the humans are setting up our real house so that we can go back to it soon. Variety may be the spice of life, but I'm ready for some comfort food. If you know what I mean.

Old Home Week

It's almost over, and it's been great. Here's what we've been up to:

• Sunday: breakfast at Hobee's with IdaRose and Neil; produce shopping at the Farmer's Market (where we ran into Dale and Linnsey); book shopping at the library (fantasy for D, comics for me); picnic in the park with Loren, Suzie, baby Luna, Sean, and Crissy (also bumped into Crystal and Peter); a crash course in hooping from Crissy; heirloom tomatoes for dinner.
• Monday: dropped off Prius for 60,000 mile service; breakfast at Hobee's; picked up Prius; drove up to SF to meet Jeff and Marina in Union Square; lunch at Pasta Bene; shoe shopping for Marina's family; browsing and coffee at Borders (where The Richter Scales once performed); dinner with Raj and Aparna (delivery from Brandy Ho's).
• Tuesday: lunch at Cascal with Kathy and Brian; cake, coffee, and reading at The Prolific Oven; dinner at Zibibbo with Chris.
• Wednesday: D went to lunch and visited with former Abbott coworkers while CKL lazed about with cats; both visited Annie and baby Julia; big dinner at Buca di Beppo with Ken, Jerry, Carol, Corby, Elena, Acorn, Sean, Crissy, IdaRose, and Neil.
• Thursday: tooth cleaning at the dentist; lunch at Google's new BigTable cafe with Larry, Rich, Chris, and Jim; dessert and reading at Marie Callender's; recording the new "Beautiful High" bass line at Jason's apartment, then partying ibidem with Richter Scales (Jason, Mark, Tom, Nils, Loren) et alii (Adam, Lisa, Amanda, Carrie)--much Rock Band was played and enjoyed.

And we've still got one whole day left! Tomorrow we meet Pauline for lunch at Jing Jing, get our mail from Karl, and have dinner with Carol at Thai Garden. At some point we'll need to do laundry and return our library books. Maybe have another breakfast at Hobee's before we leave on Saturday.

~CKL

GRASS!!!

I got grass again! It's been weeks! This time, the grass came in a pot. It stands up on its own, and I can take bites whenever I want them. Even when the humans are gone for a long time! Like yesterday.

I've eaten about half the grass already. It's really satisfying, just like the stuff that we used to get when we lived in our real house.

I like grass even better than bugs! Well... maybe not. It doesn't run away. But it's still grass!