Manic Monday, a public service announcement, feline follies, and a wee rant.

I have not done Manic Monday questions before, but I wanted to give the answers to the first and last ones.

What is the most expensive meal you've ever eaten? After I passed the CPA exam my husband took me to celebrate at the Wine Cellar, an expensive little nook of a restaurant attached to the Rosewood Room, a larger, also posh, restaurant that was part of the Northstar Inn in downtown Minneapolis. I remember we had giant stuffed mushrooms for an appetizer, but I don't remember details of the rest of the meal. Total was ~$75 for 2. In 1982. We splurged!

What is the fastest speed you've ever traveled in a car? I hesitate to admit this, but I let my kids talk me in going 90 once. They loved to say, "Go 90, Mom! Go 90!" So one day I did.

What is the highest building you've ever been to the top floor of? A former boss and I had drinks with a colleague in the Windows on the World bar at the top of the World Trade Center in about 1982. Unfortunately the weather was cloudy, but the clouds parted briefly at one point to allow us to see the lights of New Jersey. It was like being in an airplane.

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When kitties are napping peacefully in the sunshine...



they find it annoying in the extreme when someone calls, Wake up, kitties! Smile for the camera!



If looks could kill...

Wake them at your peril. That's all I'm sayin'...

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Last week it was pretty cold here, but one stoopid kitty-kat aka Hannibal decided that he really, really, really needed to go outside. Duh. Not too much later, this was the scene outside my office window.

 

 

Meanwhile, everyone inside was warm and toasty.

And surly.

 

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Note that the electronic weather station shows sunrise and sunset times for Green Bay. There is a list of cities in the instruction booklet from which to choose the one closest to your location. The choices in Wisconsin were the aforementioned Green Bay (229 miles east of us) and La Crosse (134 miles south). No Milwaukee, no Madison, let alone anything in northwest Wisconsin. So I checked Minnesota; the selections there were Duluth and... International Falls? So what are the Twin Cities, chopped liver? /rant 

Comments

[Cookie]

Waking kitties is okay as long as you stay away. It's not like they're going to get up to smack you. Just don't get close enough to get smacked. *L*

Clearly, you need to complain to those weather weasels.

[Chris]

I love the annotated Hannibal!!

Huh. Yeah, International Falls will get me accurate weather in Mpls... not.

[Carrie]

I'm tellin ya, those cats are plotting your demise.

[kmkat]

They have been plotting it for a long time. So far, so good. :-)

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. -- Andre Gide                                                         =^..^=

[Erika]

Ooh I got excited when I saw your weather station! I bought one at Lowes last month, on sale for only $20. It gives indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity, moon phase, barometric pressure, and a forecast indicator (which is completely useless).

I boggled at your 12% humidity! Right now out here it's 92% outside and 56% inside (using the wood stove brings it way down).

[Erika]

Err, and I meant to add, it comes with a wireless sensor that you put outside. No need to choose the "nearest" city and get broadcast information!

[Suzanne V. (Yarnhog)]

Ya know, I've always considered myself a dog person, but I have to say, my sympathies are firmly with those cats. I think I have that same expression when someone wakes me up...

[Sheepish Annie]

Neither of my kitties would ever consider going outside. Outside is cold and I tell them all sorts of stories about how people who venture outside have to go to a job. They leave the outside to those of us foolhardy enough to risk it.

An Absurdly Gi-normous Kitty just hopped up to sit next to me. He is very warm and doesn't look at all grumpy. That is probably because he doesn't have a job...

[Helen]

I have been a passenger in a car that was traveling over 100....
zoooooom.

[Cindy]

For some reason, I find that choice of available locations hysterically funny. I mean, International Falls!

[Nora]

I love those kitties.

Maybe it's a longitude thing?? Or maybe those weather station people are just idiots.

[Cathy-Cate]

I'm not used to La Crosse being a choice for anything! Except beer. Weird. Minnesota's even weirder. Though truly, the sunrise/sunset times shouldn't be too different Duluth to Cities, but still....

Your kitties are funny. My kitten has just been dropped off my lap for (srsly) the 30th time in 5 minutes, as she feels she needs to eat my breakfast and doesn't seem to register no for an answer. Sigh. She *has* started to jump on my lap a different way, by jumping on my shoulder first. I'm not getting my breakfast eaten very fast.

[cursingmama]

Until my children are no longer my responsibility as young drivers I will not admit to my top speed - or their fathers for that matter.

[deb]

Sammy got outside for the first time ever yesterday - in the snow. I don't think she'll try that again any time soon!!

[Diane T]

The problem with waking cats is then they want to either a)climb in your lap to resume their nap, regardless of whether you're sitting down at the time or b)make you get up to feed them. Or both.

Chilly temps there. Too early in the year for me. We don't usually see temps in the teens until January.