Mr. .NET

Not my health anyway.  I’m up in Michigan for Christmas/New Year’s and I’ve been trying to sneak some work in while I’m here, using the dining room table as my makeshift desk.  Wednesday afternoon I got up to do something in another room.  When I came back to the dining room a few minutes later, I found one of my parent’s cats on top of it; proud that he knocked my glass of sprite all over my ipod, my new phone, and next to my laptop.

I lucked out for the most part.

My laptop came out okay.  Unlike other laptops I’ve owned, the MacBook Pro doesn’t have a ton of openings on the bottom of it, basically there is a battery compartment and a few screw holes.  The ports on the side seemed to be above the water level as well.  So aside from the panic, quick/forced shutdown, and disconnection of everything, there was nothing to worry about.

My phone also came out okay.  Despite sitting in the middle of a pool of soda, the worst it suffered was a streaky exterior after wiping it dry.

The ipod; however, bit the dust.  It refused to turn on for a while, then I noticed some liquid in the dock connector so I took some alcohol to it to dry it out.  It turned on right after that and appeared to be fine.  10 minutes later it was displaying its extremely low power display and has since refused to turn on, even after charging over night.  I suspect some liquid did get inside even though it seems to be sealed up pretty tight.  I’m tempted to give it a bath in alcohol to see if I can get anything out of it; but part of me just wants to get a replacement and be done with it.

So if anyone at work is wondering why I suddenly disappeared on Wednesday, now you know

A webcomic detailing the correlation between intelligence and inane statements to proximity to cats. The part at the bottom is so true. I won’t recall for my readers the stupid stuff I’ve told my parent’s cats. It would reflect badly on my intelligence.

via a comment on Jeff Atwood’s blog.

Alas, when I moved to Ohio, I had every intention of getting a pet at some point. But with my show schedule and because I live alone; I couldn’t subject any pet to having to go that long without someone here. Someday though, someday….

After my sister saw the monday cat blogging post she sent me three more pictures. Thumbnails and links below.

Mr. Wobbles asleep on my dad’s computer chair.

The reason why the computer chair is pulled away from the desk…Wobb’s takes advantage of the opening to sleep on the desk.

Shadow says “Cheese!”

I haven’t done any cat blogging in a while because I have yet to adopt a cat since moving to Ohio. That doesn’t mean my sister can’t provide me with pictures though! She sent this photo to me and I had to share it.

Here is shadow, sleeping on my parents’ bed.

I was checking my referrer logs tonight and found this; if only Mr. Wobbles knew.

Because my weekend sucked so badly; here is Mr. Wobbles (that’s his food on the floor in the background)

I feel better already!

Yeah; it’s a little late in the day…but it’s still Friday; and I hadn’t posted anything in a while.

Here are Mr. Wobbles (left) and Shadow (right) sitting/playing in a cat bed. They must have seen me coming with the camera because they decided to start playing here. When I went to fetch the camera Mr. Wobbles was laying next to Shadow with his arm on her side.

Three more pictures follow.

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I found out that I hadn’t posted any pictures of my cats since June 20th, so now is as good a time as any…especially when this one likes to steal my chair.

Yes, I caught her while she was taking a bath