With the tornado blowing through our house (seriously, it looks like a wedding threw up in our guest bedroom), it is hard to focus on anything for more than a couple minutes. Therefore, today’s installment will be about as non-sequitur as my brain right now.

“Please follow the cable from your computer and tell me what it plugs into.”
“It goes to this little box.”
“And what does the little box plug into?”
“Nothing.”
“It plugs into nothing? There are no other cords coming out of it whatsoever?”
“No, nothing, just this one.”
“Well I think we found the problem, your computer isn’t connected to the internet at all.”
“Well nothing has changed, it was like this yesterday and it worked.”

It is 6:15 am, and I hadn’t had coffee yet, so my response was a little more spirited than usual

“Ma’am, the way you are describing this to me, there is no possible way it was like that yesterday and was working, and there is no way that it will work right now. At the bare minimum we are missing one cable necessary to get connected to the network.”
“But I know it was like this yesterday! Nothing changed!”
“Something changed; maybe you didn’t change anything, maybe someone took the missing cable, but something changed.”

It took about 5 more minutes to convince her that we needed another cable.

Also, I wrote a short story this morning. I think it rather captures the voice of the central character, and has several layers of meaning, along with metaphysical ramifications.

Without further ado….

The Social Life of Cats
by: A Cat

Chapter 1
Today, I slept. Screw you, I’m beautiful.

The End.

I know, right? I worked hard on that this morning.

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