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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats.
– Albert Schweitzer
There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
– Dan Greenberg
My cat, Pico, has a beautiful bed that I bought him at Pet Smart several months ago. I spent, I think, $25 on it:
I bought it because it matches my living room furniture, red and khaki, and he seemed to like it just fine for a while, even if he couldn’t quite figure out how to fold himself into it:
But then I went and bought running shoes. I took them out of the box in the living room and left the box on the floor. Next thing I know, Pico took up residence:
I didn’t have the heart to take the box out to the recycling because he looks so cute trying to squish his considerable girth into that little rectangle. Luckily, though, I recently opened some presents that were covered in tissue paper, and Pico has now appropriated an errant piece of it for his bed, so we’re good:
Do your pets do weird things like this, too?
Whether a woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.
– Ovid
Ok, not my dog. J’s dog, Buddy:
He emailed me today to tell me about the Humane Society of the United States’ Spay Day pet photo contest. He submitted a picture of Buddy, and he asked me (and some other people) to vote for him. I did, of course, because how do you not love that face? He also asked if I would publicize the contest on my blog and urge you to vote for Buddy, and I am happy to oblige.
If you’re so inclined, please go here, enter Buddy in the search box using Pet Name as the search option and then click search (that part’s important; it doesn’t work – at least for me – to just hit enter). Then find the Buddy that looks like the one above – when I searched this way, J’s Buddy was the second one down in the first column on the left on the first page of Buddys – and click “vote for me.” (There’s an easier way, but I’m not comfortable giving you J’s last name so you can search by pet owner.) You’ll have to enter an email address because you can only vote for Buddy once, but they won’t send you any junk mail if you don’t check the box. It’s that easy!
J said something in his email about Buddy trailing a pitt bull by only 2500 votes. I say, no problem. Hit it.
ETA: Voting ends March 7!
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if it’s the way you say it or how you look.
– Dan Quayle
After much research and consultation with the people at Circuit City, my brother, and you commenter-types, I finally bought my very own digital camera! I went with the Canon Powershot A720. I had my eye on one that had a bit more zoom but was otherwise mostly the same, but chose this one because it has a viewfinder, which I think will come in handy on sunny days when the LCD screen is obscured by glare. The guy at Circuit City said the difference between the 6x zoom I got and the 10x the other camera had was not a big deal. I was hoping to score one with a tilting LCD screen, but they don’t make very many of them anymore, and the least expensive one was about $150 more than I wanted to (and could, reasonably) spend. Oh well.
Also, because this one was a bit cheaper than the other one with more zoom, I got the camera, a carrying case, a 2G memory card (on sale for the same price as the 1G), and a Duracell 4-battery rechargeable battery dealio for only $3.91 more than the amount I told myself I could spend (which, thanks to Aimee and Tim and my grandparents, was about $150 more than my original budget!)!
I got it yesterday and got it all set up. I don’t really know what to show you; I’ve only taken pictures of my cat so far, and that’s kind of boring. But he’s pretty handsome, so let’s take a look, shall we?
Hmm. I don’t really get why I have to resize all of these pictures (I had to do the ones from Houston too, which Aimee burned onto a CD from her camera). They’re HUGE, and I’m having to edit them in Microsoft Photo Editor to be 80-85% smaller than they are when I open them. I wonder why that is? Seems like they’re going to take up way more space on my hard drive than they should because of that.
Anyway, so that’s done, and I’m pretty excited about it. Thanks for all the advice and suggestions; it was very helpful!
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