A2K time zones: What's the time where you are & what are you up to?

Probably just wanted to have interaction with the estivating mummy!

While I find sleep is more inviting during the winter I don't know if I've ever had a 13 hour run. Even with heavy sedatives I tend to awaken at around 6 or 7 hours. Occasionally I ret...

...oh, wait you didn't ask for a life story.

Yes, winter does create a desire/basic need for more rest. Incidentally, sometimes when getting excessive amounts of sleep, I find I am more tired than with lesser amounts.

In the summer months I get by easily on a lot less sleep, I waken before the sunrise and many times stand at the window watching the day come alive. To see the early birds flying about is an exciting and enjoyable experience which I never tire of.

Your cat reminds me of my late beloved Arthur (named after a high school math teacher, not the king). He would come dashing in no matter what I was preparing and had to have a smell of it. Danger items were dairy products and garlic. He adored garlic. Often he would look at an item, sniff then walk away. Other times he'd attack it, eating as if it were either the best food on the planet or else his last meal.

He also liked liverwurst.

I miss Arthur, it will be 10 years he's gone next month.
Arthur Sweet-Begonia Bouillabaisse Katz, 1983-2002.


Aside from that it is fast approaching 9:00 in the a.m. and the sky just went cloudy. Finished a breakfast salad and a plain taco shell (after yesterday's dreadful eating I need to balance it today) no dressing on the salad.

Ha.
I think she was enjoying confusing me!
Such a manipulator!

She wuvs you.

Viola just looked up "koi" on google.

No, no, please feel free to tell us your life story, Sturgis!


Yeah, it did feel somewhat excessive to me, too!
Your sleeping patterns sound so much more sensible!
(As are mine ... in summer.)


You can tell me cat stories anytime you like, Sturgis.
No 1 sucker for cat stories here.
And Arthur sounds like a very special cat!


Ah.
He had a unique & beautiful name, too.

Enjoy the rest of your day.
I presume it's sensible eating all day?
Be strong!

And ... it means ...?

1.) She's smaaaaaaaart.

2.) The letters "k", "o," and "i" are all in a little catpaw-shaped group on the keyboard.

3.) She's hungry.

4.) She thinks Deb should install a fishpond.

5.) All of the above.

Oh I know she's smart, sozobe!
Not too many cats can do a Google search!
And she'll probably get the fish pond and more food, too!

Well, I hope it DOESN'T mean she wants to eat live fish. And I think koi are really bony....aren't they a species of carp, like goldfish are?

I honestly don't know, Deb.
I'll take your word for it.
If so, I doubt she's really interested.

Koi are basically fancy goldfish close cousin to carp.

..and they are pretty boney!

Then this will continue to be a koi free zone.

5:10 pm, Saturday 28th April ...

Returned not all that long ago from a trip to the city, after seeing a movie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) with a friend & her daughter. A birthday treat for my friend, courtesy of her daughter ..... in one of those "gold pass" cinemas, with huge cushioned reclining seats, waiters on hand to provide food & drinks, plus the movie! I have never experienced anything like this before! (I know many of you have, but all my film-watching experiences till now have been in ordinary, non-flash cinemas.)
Apparently we could have ordered 3 course meals & wine!
But we didn't.
Anyway, it was fun.
And it was lovely of N to shout us the experience for her mum's birthday.

We had lunch (Indian vegetarian) outside at Southbank, afterwards .... & the nicest part: the rain & wind held off for the duration. A totally unexpected sunny day!

How wonderful for you, msOlga! I've never seen a cinema like that. Waiters, yet. Wow. Glad you had a lovely time.

9:28 p.m. here, still Friday the 27th, and raining.

1:04pm on a beautiful Saturday here and I am sitting inside a manufacturing plant not so patiently waiting for a piece of equipment that should have been running four hours ago to finally start up so I can conduct a test and go back to the hotel where I have been living for several weeks. It's a nice hotel with a good pool though.

Thanks, Andrew.
I hope your rain eases off for a bit.
But maybe you don't mind it all that much?

Engineer, do you spend much of your working life in this way?
I mean, staying at locations away from home while attending to problems like this one?
I'm glad your hotel has a good pool!
I guess that helps a little bit?

6.07 saturday night.....not going out...

Just back from my first resumption of normal exercise walk....taking it very slow, only walked half an hour.

Lovely evening out there. I adore Autumn. I really appreciate my neighbourhood to walk in. Not as lush and gentrified as my previous neighbourhood, but i like the atmosphere. Lots of old houses, retains many of the italian and greek families who settled here in the fifties and sixties straight off the boat....lots of really beautiful gums....

Finally managed to get my iPad recharged by using Internet explorer instead of chrome . Being determinedly licked by Sebastian, who firmly grabs my hand to bring it within licking distance whenever I start to type.



Some nice precooked chicken curry waiting for me to be ready for it.

Not normally. I usually travel four or five weeks a year taking a couple trips to China and a couple visits domestically auditing or advising various manufaucturing facility for the company but a weird confluence of project needs, personnel deployments and a polical dispute between India and the US over visas left me as the only available resource to help a behind schedule project here in India. Of course my regular job still goes on so pool time has been limited so far but there is hope for this afternoon.

Wow! You get to see china and India!

A bit, at least.