I don't see smoke anymore at Marina City, but now there's a helicopter overhead and a ton of ambulances, fire trucks, and cop cars near the Hotel Sax.

you're about to break into the "be a Pepper, drink Dr. Pepper" song, aren't you? don't lie. in case you need choreography ideas: [link]

George HW Bush did his Navy flight training at Navy Pier.

Yeah, that's where the aircraft carriers were based. Sometimes there's be traffic accidents on Lake Shore Drive as drivers were distracted by planes operating from the carriers.

I've always figured that shrift breaks into song a lot at work.

Uhg. Doing a load of laundry now. There may be another couple in my future. The house is as clean as it is going to get. I think after I do this laundry, I may head over again to take the rest of my groceries and the cat stuff. If T and her family are home, I'll invite them to follow me over.

Already have a home ownership issue. And of course it is water. Toilet keeps running. Not flushing running, but the fill valve won't shut off all the way. It's not a contraption like I'm used to so I couldn't figure it out. I wonder if some crud got stuck in the pump that shuts it off. Anyway, short term solution? Turn off water to toilet when not in use. I'll deal with it...later.

OK time to do something. Something

heh ... Kathy, the other day I was waiting for my bus when one of my neighbors was bringing his cat back from somewhere. I could hear the feline complaints across the street and half a block away.

Cats aren't big on the suffering in silence thing, are they?

Cats aren't big on the suffering in silence thing, are they?

Sweet heavens, no. They're more about the suffering like a Cuban mother-- they're not happy and they're going to make sure everyone knows how their ungrateful children (humans) are making them suffer.

Not that I'd know or anything. (On cats AND Cuban mothers.)

As I often say, misery demands company.

I took my cat to work in a carrier (in a taxi) a month ago. She meowed once, in the elevator, and was quiet the whole rest of the day.

The most mellow cat I've ever seen....

I think the last time my cat was ever quiet was when she was at the shelter. She was one of those cats whose personality definitely changed when she got away from the big cat room and was brought into a stable home.