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H\u2019okay. So the purposes of the internet are (a) self-involved drama and (b) pictures of cats. If you\u2019re allergic to either of those, stop reading now.<\/p>\n\n\n\nH\u2019okay. So the purposes of the internet are (a) self-involved drama and (b) pictures of cats. If you\u2019re allergic to either of those, stop reading now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First things first, here\u2019s a picture of the new (as yet unnamed) cat \u2013 pushing her luck with Maia. New cat just really, really wants love. She started out life in a family where dad had to go to jail, which landed her in the shelter. At the shelter, she promptly popped out four kittens. She lived in s boss\u2019s house for eight weeks with the kittens, where we met and fell in love with her. Now she\u2019s a new mom just weaned from her babies. She wants LOVE. She\u2019s always coming up and exchanging nose-kisses with Maia. Maia didn\u2019t like this at all<\/strong> \u2013 hissing \u2013 growling \u2013 and making this a amazing \u201cRAOUL\u201d noise. Seriously. \u201cRAOUL.\u201d I didn\u2019t know that she could make that noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As of today, two days in, Maia started accepting the nose kisses in good grace. With that as progress, new cat tried to crawl into<\/strong> the kitty cup with<\/strong> her. Maia was like \u201coh hell no, no spooning.\u201d So \u2013 it proceeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Onward to part (a): I\u2019m stuck at the airport this evening. My flight (Airtran flight 643, thanks for asking) was supposed to leave around 8:50pm. It\u2019s currently scheduled for 12:48 in the After Midnight. That puts us in Norfolk at around 3am, rather than 10:45pm. At this point I\u2019m committed. They\u2019ll get me there tonight, I\u2019ll go to the hotel and sleep in for a while \u2013 then go to work when I get up. The other option is to fail forward to the 11:40am flight that gets me there by 2pm. At that point \u2026 gah. I just don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The security team has departed, meaning that we can\u2019t get back into the gate if we leave. So it\u2019s sort of a slumber party atmosphere here in the ass-terminal of unit C of the Boston Logan metroplex. I got some cheering when I found a stepstool and tried to forcibly disable the Tee-Vee that blares its ceaseless noise and propaganda down on our increasingly defenseless ears. However, they seem to have encountered one like me before. The buttons are disabled, and all the cables are shielded behind a frame that\u2019s attached with security screws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I\u2019m writing email and stuff \u2013 and then I realize that the corporate mail server is f-ed up again. Looks like the data center where we house our stuff has crapped itself yet one more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bah. Cats are better \u2013 even if they say RAOUL at all hours of the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" H\u2019okay. So the purposes of the internet are (a) self-involved drama and (b) pictures of cats. If you\u2019re allergic to either of those, stop reading now. First things first, here\u2019s a picture of the new (as yet unnamed) cat \u2013 pushing her luck with Maia.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}