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When Mister was still a kitten RePete would walk around the house carrying him. She carried him over her shoulder. She carried him in her hands, but he would always lie on his back with his head and tail curled over the back of her hands almost meeting. It was hilarious.

He hasn't changed much. He will lie on the floor and if you scratch his back he will arch it and inch along the floor. When he plays he lays on his side and will slither sideways like a snake to move. It's fucking hilarious to watch. Just have to watch out for those claws when he's in a particularly playful mood...

It was a pretty uneventful day. I spent the great majority of the morning running around and didn't make it back to the house until early this afternoon. I actually had written a couple of posts on my phone but for some reason Pocket SharptMT keeps losing my darn settings and won't post. Guess I need to look into that before the weekend. I won't do a ton of blogging but I am bound to post at least something from the phone. While I won't have any cell phone service on the island there is bound to be someplace with wireless I can upload a couple of offline entries.

That's what I am referring to in the title. 90 Hours from now the wife and I will be on New Providence Island in the Bahamas hanging out on Cable Beach. I don't see us doing much of anything on Friday after we get there around noon other than hanging out at the resort, although I do want to check out the Crystal Palace Casino on Friday night. Saturday we'll go into Nassau and do some sightseeing and shopping as well as head over to Paradise Island and check out Atlantis.

We were going to rent a car but the wife has pretty much talked me out of it. I am still pretty hesitant about not renting but since I don't know anything about available parking downtown I suppose we'll be fine. If we get stuck somewhere there's always the taxi. There is some type of pretty cheap bus service (privately, individually owned) that costs a buck according to Fodor's we will most likely use.

I think we are pretty much decided on taking only carry on bags, maybe with a cloth bag stuffed in there in case we buy a bunch of junk and need to have it checked on the return trip. The less time I have to spend in the airport the better I will feel about the whole trip. Jeans and T-Shirts are going to be the order of the weekend, with shorts during the day. I guess I need to take my camera vest too but that will be about it. If it were later in the year I could probably pack even lighter but I have to dress for Atlanta weather and since we have to leave the house at 6 a.m. Friday it's sure to be pretty cool.

Anyway, I started the post writing about my day. I spent the greater part of the morning at Douglas County Dodge. My airbag light has been coming on constantly since the day after I bought the thing, so I set up an appointment at CarMax to get it looked at. It's still under manufacturer's warranty so I was only there long enough to get directions to the Dodge dealership. Why they didn't fucking send me there in the first place I'll never know. Ends up they couldn't do anything today. They have ordered a part and are going to call me when it comes in. Something about a spring. All I could picture in my head was this big old bed spring pushing out this little airbag into my damn face when I hit the breaks...

I also had to stop by one of my stores and leave my expense report for my boss to approve. He and all of the great muckety mucks and the rest of the dog and pony show are going to be in Colorado for the next two days for their annual meeting and I start my vacation the day they come back. I thought that was good planning on my part even if I wasn't aware of it. That means I won't get hassled too much when I have a cook in my restaurant on Wednesday morning. I may run one tomorrow as well if I can get in touch with the girl. I have a ton of stuff I need to get finished between now and then.

I went ahead and had a tasty cheese steak and hash browns for lunch while I was there dropping off my paperwork. Sitting in the damned waiting room was famishing. I did type a couple of posts but as I said above the stupid program lost them.

I also had to stop at the vets and make an appointment for Riley on Thursday morning. His ears seem to be bothering him lately. Most likely he's got another infection and needs some antibiotics. I don't particularly want to leave town with him sick.

That's about it for today. I have to Blogs for Borders thing to post after this but I think I am going to hit the sack early. I didn't sleep for shit last night and am nodding off sitting here at my desk. Me drooling on my desk is not a sight anyone needs to see.

This week's theme for PhotoHunt Saturday is important!

Earlier this year the darned cat got out of the house again. Like a moron I still had not taken K.C. to get fixed. I should have done it when we boarded the animals on vacation back in the fall, but I just plain forgot. The result was another litter of kittens. We found homes for all of them but decided to adopt Mister Stretchy Kat, named so by my five-year-old. He is aptly named because you can pick him up to carry him and he just goes limp and stretches out over the back of your hands. He is a pretty lovable cat.

When I am working at my desk both the dog and Mr Stretchy Kat have decided that it's their area and usually nap at my feet. Even if the cat weren't asleep you could tell by the amount of dog fur on my wheel pedals below the desk (yeas, I was playing Carmageddon again the other night).

We have a cat scratching post but I think I may need to get some cat furniture for Christmas. Maybe that will help keep the cat off of my other stuff, although that's not very likely knowing my animals. Just one more place to hang out and play.

Unfortunately K.C. (his mommy) got out of the house about a month ago and has not been seen again. She seemed pretty sick after the last litter was born and I honestly think she was looking for a place to die. Sometimes animals will do that. We were pretty sad about it. A friend of mine works at a local vet and they found K.C. in the parking lot a couple of years ago and I chose to adopt her. She was a pretty lovable cat but after this litter of kittens she was pretty skittish and didn't seem to want to be around people any more.

I don't know what it is but I have never considered myself to be a dog person. I like cats. I have always had cats my entire life and although we have had a few dogs growing up I much prefer the felines. There have been a few dogs in my life though and I can see why dog lovers really adore them. My Great Aunt had a collie named (of course) laddie as I was growing up and I really loved this dog. Whenever I would visit her, whether that be on the weekends when she was still in Atlanta or summers in Tampa we were inseparable. Wherever I would go so would the dog. I probably even slept with the thing, I don't really remember.

We do have a dog right now. After we bought the house a friend of ours gave us her dog that she had adopted. He is very nervous and prone to barking at anything that moves. He's not any type of special breed but just a mutt, but those seem to be the best kinds of pets, at least as far as I am concerned. I hated the thing when we first got him, but somehow over the last few years Riley has become part of the family. He sleeps at my feet on the bed and would probably get right up next to me if I let him. If I am working at my desk, like right now, he is sleeping on my feet, and if I am napping he is there as well.

Off an on we have toyed with the idea of putting in a fence in the back yard and moving him outside but he is such a loud dog when anything moves I don't think that would be a good idea anymore. I think that maybe the next best thing for us to do would be to look at dog gates and maybe just block off parts of the house. He has gotten pretty good about waiting to go outside to use the bathroom but we work so much that sometimes he just can't help himself and he pees on the carpet.

This is Riley on his favorite chair...

Certainly not an AKC registered show dog but he's part of our family and it is amazing to me that I can dislike dogs so much yet love my dog anyway.