So I know you were all waiting with bated breath to see what happened next...oh, no you weren`t because you are all asleep! Anyway, they called back. So I picked up. Somebody very young but polite enough when I informed them they might have the wrong number. But now I am so wide awake, for serious, you all. When will people wake up to talk to me?

I pretty much never stick my head out of the Gaming thread because every other thread either moves too fast or it's on something I don't know about, but Natter called to me tonight.

Hello Liese! Perhaps we can benefit from each others' insomnia!

Just gave the cat his 4 am feeding .

Got up ,all ready to go and I tripped over the cat buffet. so the said "yay snack time" and decided to eat. which - yay , that is the point of this assisted feeding. but seriously , at 4 am I have no idea what to do .I'm not waiting an hour to feed him stuff down the tube. gotta call the vet on monday.

So this is my life at 4am

This morning Spare Cat managed to strand herself inside a glass-fronted cabinet. (It has a magnetic latch, and evidently it was ajar when she got in and swung shut.) She can't have been in there for long, anyway.

However, before I let her out I had a wonderful laugh watching her trying to figure out how to get out, and tried to take a couple pictures, which didn't come out all that well, oh well.

Red dots represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. The Midwest takes their drinking seriously.

My old home town (Alpena, MI) looks red, with yellow north and south of it. Understandable. If I still lived in Alpena I'd probably be drinking as much as I could afford.

New England still has some "dry" towns, "blue laws" about selling alcohol on Sundays, and New Hampshire has their state liquor stores. In general around here, liquor licenses are highly regulated and hard to get.

Red dots represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. The Midwest takes their drinking seriously.

Okay, my this is my skewed Midwestern viewpoint speaking here, but that just seems so strange. Wouldn't you expect more bars than grocery stores? Bars are small and usually dotted around. Grocery stores are big and generally not in superclose proximity to each other. I honest to god have a hard time even picturing more grocery stores than bars.

So I fell asleep pretty much immediately after whining (sorry Thomas!) and then the dog went nuts barking and the power is flickering from the storm this morning so our UPS boxes are beeping. So I did get a night`s sleep, just not a very long one so I am much less complainy this morning. Hi!

A better comparison would be the number of bars versus the number of churches.

Timelies all!

We have had the Kitty 500 here this morning. Silly cats...