Damn It's Late

Started off the day voting. Voted for the Gov because his opponent left a slime trail wherever he went. Voted against the Lt. Governor, who somehow escaped unscathed when he committed adultery with his friend/aide's wife. Voted against the Atty General because she left the corresponding position in SF to run for this office last time, rather than face cleaning up a corrupt crime lab. Also voted against my US Rep, because he resorted to a barrage of negative campaigning the last week before the election. He used to be better than that.

Also dropped off a photo of Spook for the park's files.

Work, filed another critical bug which took most of the day to document.

Home after work, Spook was in her office hiding spot. I had seen her on webcam a few times during the day in the kitchen window, though. She came out to be petted and to show me her white tummy and run away when I stood up to rub it. There's something about standing up which freaks her out.

Off to Los Altos, songwriter's meetup. None of these people know how to write a song and sing it. Several are so into playing with their multi-track production software that we get way-too-long pieces. The moderator agrees and is having a song writing meeting Thursday, production people not invited. She played something she wrote, but when she sings she doesn't open her mouth so I couldn't tell if the words were any good.

I may go Thursday. Maybe.

Safeway for groc, then home.

Spook came out to play as soon as I made eye contact, and she got braver as I sat at the PC. Posed for me a lot, climbed up onto the cat tree and played. Dinner time, she followed me into the living room and was totally confused by the people on the TV set. She had not seen TV here before. Too busy hiding under things in other rooms. Her response alternated between staring at the screen and crawling under the coffee table. When I push the empty dinner plate her way, she backed off, then took a few licks. She seemed to like the beef gravy, but not enough to finish it off.

Bottom line is she is getting braver, feeling more secure in the house, but still is very wary of me, especially when I stand up.

Plans for tomorrow:
Hump day
Work
Quality time with Spook

My tweets

• Wed, 09:00: I have no idea where Spook is hiding this morning. :-( http://t.co/DxjUPytrBl

Spooked again

Could not find her anywhere this morning, did not feel like making the effort to look under the sofa or the stuffed chair, though.

Work was slow, mostly following up on a couple of bugs.

Lunch at Sizzler

Thought about going to Hooters to get a calendar, and dinner, but had wings at Sizzler (part of the salad bar, go figure) and there's football tomorrow night.

Went straight home, Spook was back in her office hiding spot, but as soon as she saw me she bolted for the stuffed chair and crawled under it. I think she wanted to show me where she had been hiding, because as soon as I lifted the back of the chair up, she ran back to the office hole.

She wouldn't come out. Odd backward behavior. I watched an episode of Shark Tank and had dinner (cold smoked turkey leg & cooked veggies) and dessert, and tried again. This time she came out, and even let me brush her a bit. But she doesn't like the wire brush and I can't remember where I put the regular one. Oh yeah now I do, I tossed it because she did not like th other cat smells on it. Have to buy her one of her own.

Went into the livingroom and watched some basketball, but she just kept posing for me on the office carpet. There is a small pile of toys next to the scratching post closest to the TV, I grabbed the stuffed banana, which was a favorite of all three previous cats, and put it in front of her. She loves playing with it, and is so still a kitten that way. About 10 minutes of that, she attacked one of the scratching posts on the cat tree, and now she is lying on the carpet grooming herself. Oh wait, rolling over onto the banana toy now. Yay. Good way to keep her out of that darned hiding place.

Toward the end of work I went onto Flickr to look for photos to use in the 2015 calendar. Found lots, and I'm only up till the first week in London. I could do a whole one for Ghent, and three more for Reims.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Hooters