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Our cat Pied is 15 years old today.

Happy birthday, Pied!

This will be especially funny to those of you who have lived with Pied. Anyone else owned by a cat will probably also think it's accurate and funny.

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Three things that made me happy today:

Resigning from both chess games with honor, and realizing that I enjoyed them enough that it didn't matter that I lost. I'll probably return to those boards in a few days to analyze them.
Having an early VD with Jodi (dinner and a movie)
Specifically, watching Sweet Land (about which more later, probably in a day or two) and talking about it afterward. For now, I'll just quote without context: "Hallo, hems." And I want an icon of Brownie's "Have more pie" line.

Three things I accomplished today:

Configuring the assistant director's new Treo smartphone to connect to the Exchange server
Taking some pretty good photographs of one of the new employees, for our website
Finding a supplier for custom compounded medication for Pied, and then finding an even better supplier after she started drooling, Turner and Hooch-style, following the administration of 1mL suspension p.o. (apparently the fish flavoring is what did it; the better supplier makes their own fish flavoring from scratch)

Three things that made me happy today:

Three things I did right today:

Put photos of Pied onto Jodi's iPod
Got the car to the garage and back again (even though I'll have to do it again tomorrow, since the brakes still squeak sometimes, and the steering pulls to the right)
Cooked Yukon Gold potatoes marinated in 1/4 c lemon juice, 1/3 c olive oil, 2 Tbsp Penzeys Greek Seasoning, and 1 Tbsp rosemary

This is the pretty side of having to come home to take care of Jodi.

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