Oh, goodie. An earthquake. Just what we needed this morning. It was just after Midnight. I was on the phone with Stu Shostak. I felt it where I was. He didn't feel it where he was. Amber was much closer to the epicenter of it than I was but she slept right through it.
I have much writing to do today plus a couple of business-type online conferences. We will look back on the 2020 Quarantine and say, "That's when video conferencing became a way of life and displaced a fair amount of in-person meetings forever."
I haven't posted any Cat News here lately. That's because the two of them just lay around in the yard all day and eat and sleep and don't do anything interesting. Don't these animals know I have a blog to fill? Anyway, here's a photo I took the other day of Lydia, who has now been in my backyard (literally) longer than a bush I had my gardener plant and which is now taller than my gardener…
And here's one of Murphy, whose gender is still unknown and who is still practicing Extreme Social Distancing, remaining at least ten feet from me, even when she or he is famished and I'm putting out food. He or she does this, even when there's a locked glass door between us because you can never be too careful around me. I'd stay that far from me if I could.
Lydia now kinda asks for food for the both of them, pacing back and forth on the porch until I get the hint and break out the Friskies. She takes a bite or two, then leaves the rest of it for Murphy who's there and devouring, just as soon as there's no sign of me. It is not easy getting these pictures of Murphy…
Many of you are asking when I'll be doing another one of those video conferences. It will be soon, it will be via a different format and it will guest star my best friend — who has been known to look at me with the exact same expression that Murphy has above — Sergio Aragonés. You do not need to write in for an invite for this one. Just stay tuned to this blog for the details. Evanier out.