November 18, 1999

That is my beautiful cat, Grendel. Doesn't it look like she's wearing eyeliner? The markings on her face are so pretty. That black lump behind her ear is Mia. She's pretty too, but she wouldn't let me take her picture.

So this is going to be kinda short because I have to do my Party of Five recap for Mighty Big TV. Not that anyone cares. I seriously don't think anyone watches the show or reads my recaps. There are usually like four posts in the forums per week, and two are from me trying to get conversations started. Now I know how Pamie felt about Get Real.

So, how much is digital bacle taking over my life? A lot. I am always obsessed that something important might be on that I'm missing, so I have to scroll through the onscreen guide four or five times per fifteen minute period. As if it changes when I'm not looking. I even made up a song about digital cable yesterday. It's to the tune of "Seventy-Six Trombones" from The Music Man. It goes: "Digital cable just got installed today. Digital CA-BLE just got installed." There was more but I don't remember it.

So last night I watched part of The Chris Rock Show, Saving Private Ryan, parts of Object of My Affection, and Tracey Takes On. I finally only went to bed when I couldn't keep my eyes open, but I swear I could've watched more. There are two issues I have, though. One is that when you bring up the Channel Guide, it automatically puts you at 2 hours ahead of the current time. So if it's 9 PM and I want to see what my viewing choices are at 9:30 or 10, I hit the Guide button on the remote. And it shows me my choices for 11 PM. What's up with that? Also, there is an option to enable or disable SAP, but I have no idea what that means. What does that mean? Anyone?

Mia has been very bad lately. She is noisy most of the time anyway -- she walks around the house and talks to herself, or stands in the kitchen and yowls away. Her worst time of day is when Jim goes to bed and I stay up, or Jim gets up and I'm still in bed. She doesn't like it when one person is in bed and one is not. So she cries and cries and cries and nothing will shut her up. I've tried petting her, shutting her in the bathroom, playing with her, throwing balls of paper at her. Nothing works. She's been doing it every night lately. What is her problem?

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A correction from yesterday's sidebar: Jim said that he hasn't lost respect for Natalie Portman because she's a vegan. He could just never marry her now. Jim subsists exclusively on meat, for the most part. So you can see how their lifestyles are incompatible. I'm sure Natalie is heartbroken. I know I'm breathing a sigh of relief that I don't have to beat her up.

A good resource for free clipart.

This article talks about journalists leaving the confines of a newspaper or magazine and going it on their own. This is a great idea, if they can generate funding or enough traffic to get advertising.