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The city of Fort Worth puts a lot of its adoptable animals up on Petfinder, and I just looked for my cat on it. Here she is. :)

And to answer the couple of poeple who've asked in comments what I've named her, I got overly ambitious and obsessed with Nubian queens, so now she is saddled with a moniker that's longer than she is. There's a nickname though, because all my family's animals have long names that are shortened. So she's named after Neferukekashta, who was one of the wives of Piye, who was the first Nubian pharaoh of Egypt. Nefer for short, which has connotations of "beauty," "good," "youth," "happiness," and all sorts of meanings like that. Yes, it's the same word as in Nefertiti and Nefertari.

It doesn't really fit her yet, but since there's only the one cat in my apartment, she's mostly just going to be "the cat," "hey kitty," or "squirt" to me.

I forgot to mention that on Friday night I went with my friend Toby to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert, and it was great. Well, except for the fire alarm that went off twenty minutes into the show, causing partial evacuation of the place. They started announcing it was a false alarm after half the place had been evacuated, so we all filed back in. Good show - the first third Christmas-themed with Christmasmusic alternating with a sort of typical bog-standard Christmas down-and-out story, the second third was mostly rock, and the final third was when they really let loose with classical piece with rock arrangements and pyrotechnics.

Beethoven's 5th is one of my favorite piece and I have long thought that it could only be improved with the heavy application of multiple fireballs, and my suscpicions were proved correct.

And as the leader of the band said, a cigarette in the bathroom sets off the alarms, yet with enough pyrotechnic firepower to take over a small city, there's not a peep. Go fig.

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Cat Names

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Cats seem to name themselves. Our first cat, Bruce and I got as a couple, was Devil. Which was not her original name, she first went by DeDe. Which meta-morphed to Diabla Gato to just plain Devil. She loved me and hated everyone else thus the name Devil. I cried a bucket of tears when she ran away after the Northridge Earthquake, Bruce did a happy dance.

Haydn, was another cat who named himself. When we first got him he hid because he feared the wrath of Devil who hated his very being. So, when people asked where was our new kitten, we would tell them he must be hiding. Hiding turned into Hidin' and since we are pretentious peeps, his name became Haydn. Haydn by far was the best cat I ever had. When Devil ran off he blossomed into a lap cat and later a mother to Bat and Landry. I'm getting choked up thinking about him.

Now we have Bat, Penny and Landry. Bat was named for her huge ears, Penny because when she was kitten she was precious as a Penny and Landry because she looked like the Sanrio raccoon who loved laundry. Which by the way Landry does love laundry we have caught her a few times asleep in the dryer.

Give kitty time she will pick a name she is worthy of, I like Nef but I would have to meet her to be certain.

Re: Cat Names

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Growing up, our cats were Dakota and Vermont, which pretty much became Deacon and Varmint. The dog was Carrie, short for Carolina. Mom's current cat is Collie, short for Colorado (are you noticing a theme here?), but has never bothered to name herself and is always "the cat" "the kitty" or, in moments of extreme stress, "Do you know what YOUR cat has done?!"