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Fri, 30 May 2008
Phew, busy! It's tapeout season, so layout is life, and life less than layout.
A couple weeks ago one of the Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars made his chrysalis on the frame of the porch door. I couldn't resist taking him inside and painstakingly hanging him with dental floss and tape from a piece of cardboard that I perforated and cut to fit in place of a mason jar lid. Well, last night my "hard" work paid off—he emerged! (Yes, "he," I checked the markings.) I know, this thread is worthless without pics. Sue me, my real digital camera wasn't charged and my phone has no flash, so taking pictures of him at night before letting him outside for his wings to dry wasn't happening.
Second... virtual insanity. Okay, not really, but another animal! Well, two, kind of. My younger sister moved to Austin, so she's going to stay at my house at least for the time being. With her came Hank, who is now Shockley's new best friend. I'll get pictures of them playing ASAP.
The other new animal was, erm, unexpected. Katherine and I talked a long time ago (before we got Shocks) about getting another cat, specifically a Turkish Van—a crazy swimming cat! Of course, we decided to get Shockley instead, so that never materialized. Well, a few days ago I was just randomly browsing through the Town Lake Animal Center website and was astounded to see that someone had turned in a Turkish Van!
It turns out that her elderly owner had died and passed the cat to one of her children. Unfortunately, they didn't want the cat because the kids were allergic, so they brought it to the shelter. Well, I figured I'd just go down and see this cat, mostly to meet one in person lest I decide in the future to get one. Upon further inquiry, it turned out that she'd already been there a month with absolutely no interested visitors (it's kitten season; everyone's going for a baby), and she was sad and emaciated. Long story short, she was super friendly and polydactylic (6 toes all around) and I'm a huge sucker. Oh yeah, and TLAC has to kill about 70% of the animals that end up there due to over-crowding.
We decided to name her Inara because the breed is from a region of Turkey that was ruled by the Hittites at one point. Also because we're nerds, Firefly is awesome, and Katherine insisted that Mnemosyne was too clumsy. I'll have more pictures up later; for now, here's her shelter portrait:
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Wed, 21 May 2008Tapeout is getting in the way of entertaining you, faithful readers. Apologies.
Best of friends.
Ninja cat hides in bush.
Why do they have to do it on my porch?
