Head butting saga continues

Day two of the cat head butting saga. Last night Crazy Cat spent
several hours in the garage because she couldn't work out how to get
back through the cat door. Have finally found some gaffa tape to tape
the flap back up. Should have saved money on buying the cat door and
just cut a hole thru the door!

My cat is dumb - so what's new?

We keep the cat food and the shitty litter tray in the garage so that
certain young crawling babies don't eat cat biscuits or cat faeces
(ewww). Our garage has internal access to the house and we like to keep
the door closed to stop the baby from getting in and the cat turd odor
from getting out. So dh installed a cat flap door so that we don't have
to open and close it every 30 seconds ('cause for some reason cats
*need* to go in and out all.day.long). The only problem is that the
cats refuse to use it the way that it is intended, ie with the flap
down. They are too dumb or scared to realise that they can push their
way through and so the flap is taped open to leave a hole. Tonight the
tape broke and the flap fell down. So Crazy Cat spent 15 minutes
headbutting it before I realised that she wasn't just being a pain in
the arse LOL. I've taped it back up but don't know how long it will
hold - I wish they would learn how to use the thing!

more about cars and driving

I think I'm on a bit of a roll with this topic but had to post one last
observation. I am constantly surprised and disturbed about the way some
people drive. Especially when they have kids in the car. All for the
sake of getting somewhere 5 seconds quicker. So today I'm driving to
pick up Loll from school. We live in a suburb that used to be a rural
area but is now becoming McMansion heaven. One of the fairly heavily
used roads has a quaint old one lane bridge which means that you have
to wait your turn to cross. (there's a sign NO PASSING ON BRIDGE which
is pretty redundant as it's so skinny that you couldn't possibly pass
anyone). Generally what happens is that you let about 5-8 cars pass and
then you go. It mostly works well. However today I stopped and waited
for about 5 cars to pass and then when the coast was clear I started to
head onto the bridge when this bitch in a Grand Voyager comes screaming
down the hill and looks like she is going to come onto the bridge so I
stop and sure enough she hurtles across. Bitch. If I hadn't stopped she
would have hit me. It pissed me off because she was rude and she had
kids in her car and was driving like a dickhead. God I hate dickhead
drivers.

Thinking while driving

You know how they ban talking on mobile phones while driving because
it's distracting? Well what about thinking while driving. Time to
myself is pretty rare around here and although I'm often in the car
with the kids, it's not the same as being with them and entertaining
them - IYKWIM. So a lot of the time that I'm in the car I'm thinking
about this or that - most often thinking up new designs or new schemes
to take over the world. And then I realise that I'm driving on
autopilot or not really concentrating. I scare myself!

I've been hit by a new obsession this past month or so. Cafepress. It's
like crack for people like me who yearn to be creative and love mucking
about with computers. Finally a legitimate reason to spend hours
playing around. My mini empire is expanding slowly - if only there were
enough hours in the night LOL.

One sad thing is that I broke our old reliable copy of Photoshop.
Killed it completely. Dead. Damn. So I downloaded a free trial of
Photoshop Elements. It's only Photoshop Lite but compared with my old
version it's like going from a 1966 VW to a souped up Commodore (and
you know how much I love those LOL). But alas, the trial came to an end
yesterday and it won't let me in. Damn. Now I have to actually buy a
copy but am waiting for dh to buy an academic version (at half price).
Not fair - I want to play!!

test

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