Well, I had an interesting day. It started out badly enough with my horrible allergy this morning, and a general grumpy mood when I discovered that my car may need a $900 repair soon (basically, a hard-to-reach seal is starting to leak, and the vast majority of the repair is the labor cost, having to remove the transmission in order to reach that seal.) There’s a chance it won’t get worse for years, but then it could burst tomorrow.
I also spent the most of my afternoon cleaning the house, rearranging the kitchen, and feeling generally grumpy. Finally, it was time for the mail, so I grabbed a nice pile of bills, $59-a-year credit card offers, and a magazine or two. On the way back, I was intercepted by a neighbor. She explained to me that the neighbor who usually take care of my packages and my trash had to go out of town for a funeral, so she took the responsibility, and handed me the three packages that was delivered to my home.
One was from Costco, full of file folders for my new file cabinet that apparently have not arrived yet (but should by next Friday).
The second package was from my sister, and is a gift for my cats. It is a “Cat Pueblo Play Tower”, a four-level cloth-and-plastic-sticks playground for the cats. While I was putting it together, Cash and Mitten was already playing with one part of the tower. Once it was up, and I put Mitten on the top, she settled in, and started enjoying the world from the top, while swatting away Cash who wanted to reign supreme.
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Meowr
The third package is from my Sekret Santa in Duluth, Minnesota. ArsTechnica have an annual tradition where two very generous souls organized and send out details on Sekret Santa gifting. My Sekret Santa put together a very nice package!
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As you can see, there are five gifts! FIVE! Not one, but two postcards of Duluth, Minnesota (maybe he wants me to move there… nahhhh, too cold!) The other three gifts are:
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A Coca-Cola 3-D jigsaw puzzle. My father would absolutely love this, but then he’s not partial to 3-D puzzles yet. It’s pretty damn cool, thou.
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“Infinity In Your Pocket” by Mike Flynn — A pretty damn cool looking book that I will definitely enjoy.
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The Original CatDancer – Oh. My. God.
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When I pulled it out, Mitten was quick to pay it close attention, and started attacking it! When I put it down, she actually would try to climb on the countertop, which is a no-no for her. She is so hooked to that toy.
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When I showed it to Cash, and tried to take pictures, it was a blur of fast-motion action that is difficult to follow for my poor camera.
Below is the link to the entire album of the tree, the gifts, and the chasing of the CatDancer. (Click on the picture.)
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Thank you, Sekret Santa. Thank you, sister. Thank you all.
And have a wonderful holidays.
