My cat, The Snoop, was quite a prolific mouser when she was younger. After moving to the city with my mom a couple of years ago, with the cars, close neigbors, and what not we've made her into an indoor cat.

This morning she started meowing loudly. I figured she wanted her usual early morning feeding. But when I got up, she had a large dead mouse outside my bedroom door. I think she must have got it out of the garage.

At any rate, I think I heard what "I'm back, bitches!" sounds like in cat.

Boeing stops work on 787 fuselages made in Italy to fix wrinkled skin

HOLY CRAP, I didn't know the machinist's strike made it all the away to Italy!

"I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with 20 notes." -- Les Paul

Here is the relative intelligence of your average house cat:

If the activity is something the cat wants to do:

• Can understand sentences.
• Can understand complex cause and effect relationships.
• Can do math, possibly including algebra.

If the activity is something the cat does NOT want to do:

• Will look at you with the expresion "I don't understand! I'm just a dumb animal!"
  

The weather forecast for today and this week for the greater Seattle area is HOTTER THAN SATAN'S BALLS.

With the 2012 end of the world stuff I just did the math and realized I'll be turning 40 in 2012. So I guess there's a chance that my turning 40, will, in fact, be the end of the world. 

I took my mom to the eye doctor after her cataract surgery last week. They do quite a few of these surgeries. I was in the waiting room with a bunch of people with a patch over one eye. It was like I was at a pirate convention.

I didn't think exclaiming "ARRRR!" or "Avast, me hearties!" would go over well.

I got my mom a mother's day card. The Hallmark store has everything. I had to make sure I didn't get one like "Happy Mother's day from your sister's cousin's ex-lesbian lover's former roomate!". 

For dinner I had baked salmon. This is what popped into my head on the term "baked salmon":

Yeah, so shitty week at work this week¹. Layoffs, gutting whole teams. I knew my job wasn't going to get axed this week, but still pretty stressful. 

Unlike most people in my field,  I don't change jobs very freqently. When I started my current gig the industry was still pretty much in the dot-com-bust crapper. This week's layoffs just seem to remind me of that time. It's been a week of deja vu all over again.

¹If you follow business news closely you might be able to guess where this is. But I'd rather not name names.