1. Mister caught a mouse in my bedroom last night. I'd just settled in to sleep when I heard THUMPITY THUMPITY THUMP down at the foot of the bed, so I turned the light on to see what was happening, and there was Mister with a mouse in his mouth! I got up to grab a leather glove from the front room, and when I went back, Mister laid the already-dead ( Read more... )

One thing that going to the Ring Cycle last month showed me is what horrible physical condition I'm in. When I used to go to the opera in San Francisco, I had a habit of circling the opera house during the intermissions. I'd take the stairs up to the top, walk across to the other side, down the stairs to the basement, back across to my side, then ( Read more... )