Oops! Not Today!

The shooting range sent out an email yesterday, saying that the range is CLOSED today for cleaning. So. Darn.

Here’s hoping that I won’t have forgotten everything by next week, when I’ll have time to go to the range again. (You’re probably wondering why it is so difficult for me to remember how to load the darn bullets! But it is. Especially since each time I go in there, they give me a different gun. The simplest part is so hard for me!!!)

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Okay! Today’s mini feature:

What’s wrong with this picture??!!

That’s correct!! NEVER knit around people who are cleaning guns!!!

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Meanwhile, Peitor and I got great work done on revising the script yesterday and so we will just continue in that vein today.

I have a new policy around here — my work day doesn’t end until 6PM, seven days a week.

So this means that even when I come home at 3 or 4 PM and am completely emotionally wiped out, I still have a couple of hours to sit at the laptop and work on the script.

Because we really, really need to get this done. And now, of course, Peitor is back in the South of France and so there is once again a 6 hour difference in our time zones.

Not to mention, a difference in our views:

Peitor and a friend on the terrace, overlooking the Mediterranean

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And THIS is arriving tomorrow:

It’s a kitten maternity room for Little Blackie and her new kittens. Because they really need to come indoors and I can’t risk exposing the tiny kittens to all the many curious cats in here — all of whom Little Blackie has a history of attacking.

So Blackie and her tiny newborns will be kept in there — and you can see that the litter box house is attached! I’ll let her come out when I’m home, but she really just wants to stay close to her kittens right now, anyway.

I’ll probably end up putting it in my room, still farther away from all the other cats. We’ll see how it goes!!

BTW, you can also use this to take your pets camping with you! Here’s the link in case you’re interested.

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Well. Nick Cave sent out an AMAZING Red Hand File just now!! It was just great — and this time, he wasn’t too hard on himself! I really loved it. It was in response to a fan thinking that he (and other “celebrities”) are paid “shit tons of money” for what they do, when other people who provide services are paid less. (She sounds a wee bit Neo-Marxist…)

Anyway, he replied, in part:

“Your letter felt a little ungenerous and seemed to contain a corrupting resentment – that kind of indignant, moral posturing where we blame others for our feelings of powerlessness. Resentment – that bitter cup of gall is not good, Carol, not for your heart, not for your soul, not for your digestion, not for anything….”

You can read it (completely and totally for FREE) here.