Happy Monday. This week is going to be a memorable one, you can just tell, can’t you? It will. And if you can’t tell, come up for air and read the news. It’s going to be a memorable one.
But before all of that begins, we have our new usual Monday feature of checking in with the cats. Let’s see how they spent their weekend.
Phoebe discovered a new place to sit on the stairs. We have a small landing, and she’s familiar with that, but this step gives her a commanding view of the foyer, a window and escape routes up and down the stairs. I’m sure that’s how she thinks.
Poseidon spent part of Saturday night curled up in a big fuzzy blanket. I think he’s coming around to the lifestyle:
They got two new toys in the mail from a friend this weekend. They are little lizard shapes with some hardcore strain of catnip inside:
They are jealous cats, so jealous that despite there being two of the identical toys, they are fighting over the lizards. So now we’ll have to hide them.
Some naps, for whatever reason, are cuter than others:
We went for a run on a sunny Saturday. I am now tasked with running ahead and taking pictures. So my sprints should improve, because the job is to get far enough ahead that I can find a good spot for a reasonable composition, stop, turn, open the camera, frame a shot and watch the runner run through:
It’s a good chance to catch my breath, though, before having to run on and catch back up. But, check this out, same picture:
I got the two-feet-off-the-ground shot. Not bad for trying to do all of the above while winded.
On Sunday afternoon I got in my first bike ride of the year. And this evening I had my second bike ride No photos or videos of either of those. Or probably for the first four or five rides. I have to remember again where all the gears are and what all the levers on the bike do again, first.
I shot this after today’s bike ride. And I am suddenly very interested, once again, in natural sound.
The late night show produced this episode for you last Friday. The guest is one of our professors. Ordinarily my critique would be that you have to go find people outside of our own buildings. There are a lot of reasons for that, groupthink, the burden of real producing, the what’s-entertaining-to-you-isn’t-entertaining-to-everyone phenomenon, but that concept may not apply to Susan Kelly, who is quite entertaining indeed:
Anyway, for the rest of the week, and whatever else is coming to us soon, I hope your times aren’t that interesting.
