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1. about 11 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   The Woman is getting what would normally be a dream vacation: a couple of days off from work while she gets to lie in bed all day. Unfortunately it’s a hospital bed as she appears to have a partial small bowel obstruction. This just happened late yesterday so I don’t have a lot of information as yet but will keep you posted.

2. about 11 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   OT

3. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   That’s why we have The Boy.

4. 7 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Yep. I’m not looking forward to when it’s my cat’s time to cross the RB. He’s 13 and has been through a lot with us. He also has the patience of Job where my granddaughter is concerned.

   @A Common ’tater: we lost a member of the Breaking Cat News community a couple of years ago. The post from his daughter had nearly 200 likes and 130+ comments (and those were just the comments that people posted as a reply in the thread).

5. 7 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   How appropriate that I’ve decided to buy The Girl the OZ shirt about “I’m experiencing the consequences of my actions” because she acts just like this when she is hungry.

   OT: last week’s post.

   Services for P’s wife (I’ve since learned her name, M) will be on May 13. I will be going, but unfortunately, The Woman will not be able to as The Girl is still in school and someone of course needs to be here when she gets home.

6. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   This is why we have Maverick’s, Ember’s, and Mickey’s food delivered to us.

   Also because Mickey’s food comes in a 30-pound bag.

7. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   That’s fair. Also to be fair, I never said the disclosure would happen contemporaneously. 20 years from now, Donald Trump is going to be dead and we are going to learn a lot of things about what happened behind closed doors in the White House. Mike Pence, for example, is a Republican in Reagan’s mode of “thou shalt not criticize thy fellow Republicans” but there is no possible way that he hasn’t vented to someone who will need to buy a new car or something at some point and will sell their knowledge to someone in the media.

8. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   And what better way to do that than to alienate them before you ever say a single substantive word?

   And, yes, Democrats are also guilty of this, but I’m pretty sure you and I were both in kindergarten and we were both taught that “he started it” isn’t a valid defense even if it’s true.

9. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Have you ever seen the movie “Wag the Dog”? The single most plausible scene in that movie is the next-to-last one, where Dustin Hoffman’s character says he wants to tell the world about having invented a war out of whole cloth, even though he knows he will probably be killed for doing so, because “I want the credit!”

   Mark Felt (in case the name Woodward and Bernstein gave him won’t get past the censors) was guaranteed anonymity until he was dead, but he outed himself. Why? “I want the credit!”

   After OJ Simpson was acquitted, all he had to do was live out his days playing golf, maybe go to a few sports-memorabilia shows to sell autographs, and generally keep his head down. He put out a book giving a near step-by-step explanation of how Nicole’s murder “hypothetically might have happened, wink, wink.” Why? I would guess he wanted the credit for putting one over on the legal system.

   We live in a country where people can’t even keep quiet about movie spoilers, yet there is an entire cottage industry centered around the idea that you can involve dozens, hundreds, even thousands of people in various assorted nefarious plots, and every single one of them manage to voluntarily decline to take the credit. That’s not how human nature works.

10. 14 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    I’m not exactly sure what the relationship is, but The Gigi’s cousin, P, is some level of cousin to her on her father’s side, making his daughter, C, my cousin one level down. P and his (now) ex-wife left RI when C was around 10 years old or so and moved to Virginia. After The Woman and I moved to NC, I got to drive up to Virginia to see C for the first time in over 20 years … just in time for Covid. That said, C has a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering, so she has been a terrific source of knowledge the past few years.

    While I’m not clear on many (most) of the details, P’s house caught fire on Monday afternoon. (GC of course will not let me post a link but you can search “WAVY Williamsburg Monday April 8 house fire.”) P was not home but his current wife was, and her remains were found once the fire was out. The arrangements are still in flux, mostly because the manner of death requires the medical examiner’s involvement and they have to wait for that to run its course, but I nonetheless present the two of them before the Orb for all the thoughts, prayers, and comfort that can be sent to them.