Autumn

I came close to getting a blanket in the middle of the night. I contented myself with shutting the window. This has been our week of autumnal shifting.

Water

Wow, Ash is lapping up that water like it is heavenly delicious. I changed the five-gallon jug this morning, and so that is all cooler-water in the cats' bowl instead of tap water. I have been worrying lately that the cats were barely drinking their water.

Maybe I need to go back to sweetening their water with cooler-water, making it half and half with the tap water. I had stopped doing that because I have been using more of the cooler-water for my own Ozarka bottles, not wanting to go through those so quickly, neither the Ozarka bottles nor the cooler jugs. But we might really have a 'hard water' problem with the tap, and the cats' satisfaction is worth a little trouble.

Quote

“And another idea I had was to write a big long poem about everybody I ever fucked or slept with.”

-- Allen Ginsberg

Grocery List

Oh, shit, I keep forgetting. I have finished making the grocery list, but I keep forgetting the last crucial step: to type it into my word processor and print it. I was so ahead of schedule, and now I am kind of behind.

Trump Times

An argument in the New York Times: Immigrants shouldn't have to be talented. Heh, there's a proud argument. If you like poverty and being a bottom-feeder. Because being dark-skinned and dumb will get you so much in this country, in this world. You can't even hit a baseball for us? Or dance a little?

Cats

Sammy wanted to come in to eat, as has been his wont from time to time over the past couple of weeks or so. Okay, I let him in and take the plate to the big room for him. When he is ready to go back outside, Ash is there. I hold the door open, offering her the opportunity to come inside for a bite to eat. It appears she prefers to eat outside. Okay, I go and get the plate and take it outside, but then she just races away without even taking a sniff of the food. A power play? Okay, the things I do for love. Plus, I know how hard the long night will be for them, when I am sleeping and they are starving and powerless. The problem with nocturnal pets: we live in different time zones.