Oh, plei, too cute. Grace isn't sure that touching should be allowed The next pic in the photostream has her real reaction.

Kristin, I'd be so grateful if you could burn it and I'd love to get together. Once I'm not feverish or contagious or whatever, we should.

I had more but the fever is eating my brain (I just hope not literally).

I've been favoring the Swedish plan on list all along. At the moment it looks like what we're going to get is what was introduced last time with a few added features.

Kat, will do. I'll burn it tonight. Let me know when you're feeling better (I have a cold too, so I feel your pain) and we'll make plans. I think our plans may have to include cupcakes.

OMgosh, thank you everyone for the adorable babies and toddlers! Totally made up for a cranky-too-hot day.

Oh and happy birthday, Alibelle! Miss you 'round these parts.

I've been favoring the Swedish plan on list all along.

I quite like this too. Taking equity to the value of any financial injection is a pretty reasonable demand from the taxpayer's perspective, and gets as close to market discipline as you can where the market's lost the capacity to provide it. (I would expect the govt to start selling down the equity it gains when the market stabilises and they can get a reasonable price for it, as Sweden did.) Plus, socialising losses and privatising gains is exactly the kind of environment that will create another crisis. To my mind, it's worse even than doing nothing.

Loki's being a pesky little brother. He kept leaping on Mister Kitty. Mister Kitty is fighting back, but it's all good. No one is getting hurt or scared. I think it is....play.

Now Devi... well, that is slowly improving.

I just loaded my dad's Mongolia photos. Holy god is that some beautiful country. I think I'll load the best into my flickr account. A preview: [link] (There's one Aimee will like.)

It's raining. I really hope they patched the roof (they came last night to see where the leak was.)

Awesome fashion photos (where awesome = bizarre): [link]

This particular Fabulon post is worksafe.

Yay for playing! Yay for slow improvement on the Devi front!

Stories like the standoff between Devi and Loki are the main reason why I keep rethinking the idea that Amarna might like a friend to play with when I'm not around. She's so much a fan of keeping my attention that she might not like a competitor.

In Sarah Palin news, another excerpt from the Couric interview:

Palin on which newspapers she reads: ‘Um, all of them.’

Yeah, the adjustment period isn't all fun. Honestly, with female cats, I'd say start with fostering a wee kitten (preferably not female) to see if it'll work. In all the cats we've had, the females have been the meanest to the new one, and only 2 have ultimately ended up buddies. The mom & daughter weren't. They'd still curl up with each other when it got cold, but they didn't like each other other than that. The boycats all ended up playing and cuddling together, and mothering the intruder girlcats. Fixed females are a lot more territorial than fixed males, IME.

That was the direction I was gonna go when I was planning on getting another once I had a house.

You can see how that worked out. Still in apartment. Teenage (sorta- under 6 mo) boycat.

I knew I should have gotten two when I went to the shelter four years ago. Oh, well.

This is pretty funny. A Fox News reporter (I use the term loosely) is at a diner in PA, asks the crowd who's going to vote for McCain. One man half-raises his hand and it's swatted down by his wife sitting next to him. No one else raises theirs. Guy asks who's going to vote for Obama. Just about everyone raises their hand, with the wife raising both of hers and her husband getting his up there, too. Guy turns back to the camera and says, "As you can see, it's pretty much split between the two here in Pennsylvania. Back to you."