breaking news

from cnn.com:

"Former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been found guilty on multiple counts in the CIA leak case."

Now to make sure he's not allowed to be the scapegoat for all the players named and yet hiding...

Life among the Felines

Spent the day hiding from OhMyGod winds (40+mph, starting at 3am when I thought my bedroom window was going to blow in) and OhMyGod cold (the high was, I think, 15 degrees) in M's office, huddled next to a space heater and trying to get People Not Like Thee and Mee to behave like they were ever taught manners. Also, working with BaseCamp, which I'm deciding I quite like: project management software that seems to actually do what it's supposed to do, and nothing else.

And then came home, cooked up some pork ribs, and settled in, fully intending to get back to the read-through for DOWN INTO DARKNESS.

The cats had other things in mind. Apparently, being left ALONE! with the WIND! all day put them on edge, and they needed mommy-time.

We finally worked out a compromise, where I get to do a few pages, and then we'd play, and then a few pages... So I'm sitting on the sofa, lap desk on, well, my lap. Pandora, as is her habit, tried to burrow under the lap desk to get at my lap. Boomer, sitting on the sofa next to me, was clearly wondering what the fkcu Pandora was doing, and so stretched around my knee to stick his head under the lapdesk and find out what's what.

At which point I started to laugh so hard, they both stalked off in a huff.

(they're both back on the sofa now, but studiously ignoring both me and each other)

I'd probably get more done if I didn't share space with these two. But I'd be so bored.

Ah, they both seem to be asleep. Back to work I go!


(for the record, it's currently 10 degrees outside, with a wind chill of -2. Welcome to almost-spring in New England...)