The Black Hole of Jingly Balls

Every jingly ball we gave to the cats would disappear. We thought maybe Chew had a stash, but then he would run around looking for them. Shade isn't hiding them out of spite because he's too busy stealing all my damn mulch. We'd occasionally look under furniture for them, but it was no use. It was like they were just gone.

Today I spent hours cleaning and systematically looking for the damn things. I mean, where can you hide a dozen jingling balls? They aren't exactly subtle. Especially at 3 am.

Now, after Banik getting home and us having dinner on the couch, the last place we cleaned was under the couch. So appearently that happens to be the only place where Chewie can't get in to retrieve the jingly balls. >.<

Can you find all 12?!
As an added bonus, we also found the pieces that Chewie has been breaking off of the miniblinds. He makes life... interesting.

Evolution of the Household

The article has statistics for each decade from the 1950's to 2000's. They aren't terribly consistant, but it is interesting nonetheless.

Boxaholism is a sad, sad thing.

Role Models

Chewie's two favourite shows are Jeopardy and Dirty Jobs. You would expect something from FoodNetwork to be in there, but he hates associating food with work.

iHelp™ Adminstrative Assistance

Here you can see Shade taking a break from typing dictation to skip through mp3s. He gets cranky if he has to listen to too many Fall Out Boy songs in a row; it breaks his concentration. He's pretty good at typing... until he gets tired and falls asleep on the keyboard and writes 3 pages of "k"s and commas.

Krumpe's Do-nuts

So we were just watching an Alton Brown segment about doughnut shops, and I was struck by the terrible realization that a few weeks ago we went all the way home for the first time since August- but we didn't have any Krumpe's Donuts.

Normally I'd post a lovely photo of how pretty and delicious they are, but I obviously can't take a picture since I don't have any fricking donuts. If you live in the Hagerstown, MD, area you need to go to Krumpe's right now and enjoy the warm, fresh-from-the-cooling-rack awesomeness. They aren't as good the next day and certainly wouldn't hold up to shipping, but you could have some... if it weren't Saturday night. Okay, go tomorrow night.

As for us, Banik is already in the kitchen working on some donuts, and it wasn't even 10 minutes ago that he watched the clip.

Up Close with Chewbacca

"You're a very handsome cat, Chewbacca."
"You're bothering me. Rub my tummy or go away."