I’ve already blogged about a cat named Murray so for today, a simple note to observe that Murray is no longer with us. From his unexpected reappearance in late August, we are grateful to have had the opportunity to share another four months of life with him before arthritis and other maladies of old age finally caught up to him.

We spent our last evening together the same way we spent our first: lying on the couch watching movies with him asleep, purring away on my chest.

Bye Murray.

“Play tricks?” laughed the cat.
“Oh my my! No, no, no!
I just want to go in
To get out of the snow.
Keep your mind on your work.
You just stay there, you two.
I will go in the house
And find something to do.”
Then that cat went right in!
    — The Cat In The Hat Comes Back, Dr. Seuss

Inspired by projects such as the tweeting cat door and CATaLOG [sic] I’m wanting to add some form of automated access control to our pet door to control who can go in and out, when. Read more »

One of our two kittens, Bazyl, has started exploring my desk while I work.

He was quite intrigued for about ten minutes with the mouse cursor on my screen.

(Insert obligatory lolcat dialogue here)

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