Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat.*

Things That Make Sickle Happy:

1) Mom and I made chocolate cake today and have consumer half of it in three sittings. Tea and cake for dinner, bitches! With limoncello for dessert :D

2) Our neighbuorhood has a local black cat who may or may not belong to someone. At any rate, he's** the boss of these streets, as evidence by the Great Postureing and Spitting Stare-Down he had with another cat one night. Anyway, he likes rolling in the shade at the entrance to our apartment building, or sitting by the gate in a sun-induced stupor.

After a few, "Here, sniff this hand!" encounters, we've moved onto the "Yes, you may pet me, human," stage. I've taken to thinking of him as Bob, because the first few times I saw him I was listening to a Sookie Stackhouse novel where a minor character, Bob, gets turned into a back cat.

Today he was curled up by the gate, dozing in the sun. I walk up and wait while Mom fished for the keys, all, "Oh hey, look who's back!" Well, the darling Bob cracks an eye open, stands and meowls at me. I knew what that meant: "Pet me! Pet me!" Honestly, petting Bob totally makes my day sometimes.

3) I've discovered how to work Windows Media Player so it doesn't freeze up the second I even think of asking it to do something. The trick is to wait ages between each action, kind of like with Echo Bazaar. So I think I'll slowly be able to work on that Supernatural fanvid I've had sitting on my computer for pretty much a year now. Also, I started writing down ideas for a Sarah Connor Chronicles fanvid. I have too many fanvid ideas! Shut up, visual brain strung out on music! Shut up!

4) Watching and snarking at Jurassic Park 3 (Italian dubbed) with Mom.

Linguistic Factoid of the Day:

The English expression, The clothes make the man, is in direct contradiction to the Spanish expression, Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda***

Similarly, one can counter, It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all with Yes' lyrics, Owner of a lonely heart is much better than an owner of a broken heart.

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* Chinese Proverb
** I'm assuming it's a male. Anyone pipes in going on about patriarchy, feminism and inherent sexism can keep on piping thataway.
*** Although dressed in silk, the monkey is still a monkey.