Month: April 2009

When we started to show the house, we were amazed at how well this stuff worked to calm down our kitties, especially Winnie.

It is a synthetic version of the pheromone that cats produce from their facial scent glands — the ones they use to mark stuff that they like.  So this scent makes them feel at ease, which they will definitely need in the new house.  Our sellers have agreed to set these up for us before we move in.  With luck, this will make their transition to their new home easier.

I had a dentist appointment today.

We got to do a full set of X-rays.  I love the way the little film pouches dig into the inside of your mouth.

Oh where, oh where is our BBQ spit?
Oh where, oh where can it be?
With its cord so short
And its skewer so long,
Tell me oh where can it be!

I guess this chicken is going in the oven.  Oh well, the weather’s not really warm enough to spit-roast a chicken tonight anyway.

Traffic on the Mass Pike this morning was worse than it’s been in months.

There’s an automated external defibrillator at my work now, waiting to be installed.

Presumably, training will follow. I hope we never have to use it.

Going to bed tonight, I noticed a cool shadow on the wall that I’ve never noticed before.  The light fixture hasn’t moved, and neither has the item casting the shadow.  So I’m not certain why this has never struck me before.

The question remains… do you see a chalise, or 2 upturned-nose kitty faces?

We went to a milestone birthday party at Summer Shack near Alewife T station, which is a low-atmosphere, good-food seafood restaurant run by Jasper White.  This place used to be a kitchy Polynesian restaurant, and rather than get rid of the big statue outside…

…they turned it into a fisherman.

The Remains of the Tapas:

I saw this truck on my way to work this morning.

What I want to know is… what’s an R&R crossing?  Relaxation & Recreation?  Rock & Roll?  It makes no sense!

There are many items in our house that will be easy or routine for our movers… couches, books, file cabinets: everybody has those.  We do have some unusual items, however.  Not least among these is my printing press and movable type.  There are thousands of individual pieces of lead type in maybe 10 type cases; if these letters fall out of the cases or get mixed up with one another it will take weeks of effort to put right. 

The solution is courtesy of one of the really museum-y (as opposed to children-y) people at Lis’s work: stuff the cases full of fiber batting and wrap the whole thing in plastic wrap.  I hope it works!