music

I'm always looking for good music that's not very popluar. I find that some of the unknown music out there is much better than anything you might find on the radio. A few months ago I was introduced to the John Butler Trio. I found this clip from one of their concerts which just blew my mind. If you have 5 minutes and a love for really good guitar playing, then enjoy.

Mortimer, some things will never change!

In a few months I'm going to be going away for a week and the question has come up once again about what to do with my cat while I'm away. I've run out of single friends who can stay at my house while I'm gone with my high maintenence cat. My mom is convinced that with a little help mortimer can come to like her home and that way while I'm away mortimer can go stay at my mom's house (with her cat Lothar and Dog Buddy.) I feel this is a lost cause but none the less I loaded mortimer into the cat carrier tonight for a little pet therapy at "grammy's house."

We arrived and mortimer imediately starts hissing at both buddy and lothar. It went something like this. Mortimer hisses at Lothar, Lothar looks at mortimer. Mortimer hisses at buddy, buddy looks at mortimer. Mortimer turns around and hisses at the cat carrier. Mortimer turns to me and hisses at me. Then turns to Lothar and the cycle continues. It was truly a bonding experience for all the animals involved.



After awhile (and a close encounter with mortimer's swatting paw) Lothar got smart and moved to higher ground.



I'm not so sure if he'll be going back to "grammy's" any time soon.