Caterwauling

The new kitty arrived tonight. I think Maddie is going to smother me vengefully in my sleep. 🙂

Watching Maddie and Chloe hissing and growling at each other is more entertaining than my 500 cable channels. I should’ve saved the $130 and waited a few more weeks to get hooked up to Comcast! 🙂

Chloe is hiding under the computer desk, and Maddie has retired to her famed kitty sofa, where she is glaring darts at the both of us. Something tells me this is gonna be a LONG night for all three of us!

Update: Maddie decided to use Chloe’s litterbox and try to eat her food. No sooner did I pull Maddie out of Chloe’s food dish than I found Chloe darting her nose into Maddie’s. Chloe has been very smart and has attached herself to my side. Maddie’s just sulking from 10 feet away at all times. I feel bad for Maddie — I am certain Chloe will adjust just fine, but Miss Madeline won’t even let me talk to or even pet her. *sigh*

I put Chloe’s new leather/rhinestone collar on her. It’s the smallest collar I could find, and I have it fastened on the tightest hole, and it’s still too big for her. 🙂 She’s a whopping two pounds, and she’s not even the least bit afraid of her 18-pound big sister.

Must remember to separate the little terrors when I leave the house tomorrow, or the fur will be a-flyin’!!!

Haiku Error Messages……

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They’re used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan:

~ The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist.

~ Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

~ Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much.

~ Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

~ Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.

~ Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone.

~ Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down.

~ A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone.

~ Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

~ You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here.

~ Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will.

~ Having been erased, The document you’re seeking Must now be retyped.

~ Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen – Mind. Both are blank

Y’know, it’s a furlough afternoon. That means I AM WORKING WITHOUT BEING PAID FOR IT.

Of course, I’m no stranger to that concept. But I am so very annoyed that I had plans to work on my apartment this afternoon, yet most of my writers did not make my Tuesday early editorial deadline, and a bunch weren’t able to hit the standard Thursday deadline. So here I am today — editing six late stories and waiting for two more.

I love editing, though, so this isn’t exactly painful work. But I would rather be ANYWHERE but at work during this gorgeous afternoon! 🙂 Oh well. As long as I can make it to my rental office before it closes, I s’pose I shouldn’t complain.

1. When was the last time you laughed?

Last night with Shawn, over his recent firing resignation from his latest employment fiasco. We speculated how — despite the rigid rules the suits must have had to follow when they decided to fire him because of the contents of his blog — fucking HILARIOUS it was that they never referred to the “Incorrigible Asshole” in question by his actual name. Envisioning people in authority saying “Incorrigibile Asshole” every five minutes … now there’s a reason to invest in adult diapers, ’cause that’s some funny shit!!!!

2. Who was the last person you had an argument with?

I avoid arguments, especially if the situation and/or the person just don’t matter.

One exception would be at the Veggie Patch, but seeing as though my good buddy just got fired for blogging about work, I’m gonna digress right here and now. 🙂 Of course, the last person who screamed at me was Town Crier as she backed me into a bathroom stall, so one could suggest that I was “backed in” to that disagreement! 🙂

3. Who was the last person you e-mailed?

A professional/personal contact in Massachusetts. He’s a darling person.

4. When was the last time you bathed?

I wonder how many people are gonna lie about this question. 😉

I showered at 7:45 a.m. today.

5. What was the last thing you ate?

Cruise Director here at Club Medicated brought in doughnuts for those few of us who showed up for today’s half-day. So I had a big bad fried hunk of dough with chocolate icing.