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Random pointless post.

I just freaked out my cat with the iPod. I was scritching her and held one of the earpieces to her ear, which made her start and twitch her ear a bit. She sniffed it, then I held it to her ear again which was just Too Weird For Words and she got off the sofa.

And I think of this every time I feed her the hairball and tooth treats when I get home from work, but never get around to posting it (because you are all SO INTERESTED in the minutiae of my cat's daily life): I can make my cat drool like a Labrador retriever. If I tease her a bit with the treats before opening the bag to give her some, she'll drool on my jeans. XD

rachelmanjia, don't panic if you see a large dump of Africa Letters over the next few days - I'm not spending time typing them all in. I thought I'd typed in 5 or 6 back in 2002; turned out to be more like 13 or 14, the majority of which are in January and February of 1975. I ought to properly parcel them out sparingly over the next week or so, but I have never been much for being able to build suspense like that because I am impatient, so you guys will probably get overloaded by them in a short period of time. Luckily, Mom started using aerograms a lot, so they tend to be only one handwritten page instead of 5 or 6 like she was writing before.

I mean, aren't you all on tenterhooks waiting to see if we ever get The Box? And I promise you gossip about the research scientists at SRI!

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One quick observation before going back to the drawing board: I was out this morning to pick up some soda because I was completely out of caffeine, and I saw a mand and his daughter, the man holding one of those white canes for the vision-impaired. And I realized that he was the third one in my neighborhood (not my complex, but one of the nearby ones, I think) that I've seen recently with canes like that. I've seen a woman using one, and I've seen a different man getting off the bus with one. There's no school or center for vision-impaired and blind near here, so I can only guess that there's something about one of the apartment complexes around here that caters to the vision-impaired. Interesting.