I guess it was Tuesday of this week when I came home from work and was playing with Drake and Scout. Out of nowhere Drake said “Drake Happy” and gave me a big hug. Melinda and I were ecstatic. Later on that night, Scout decided to start crawling. It was a big day.

Leia has had to go the vet and stay overnight. She has a urinary tract infection again and they wanted to watch her over night to get a sample and make sure that crystals have not developed. That poor cat. She has such small pipes she’s forever getting infections. On a positive note, she has fattened up nicely. When she came back from her three week jaunt to who-knows-where she weighed in at a mighty six pounds. Yesterday she was a little over ten. Fatty. Yoda, on the other hand, weighs in at around twenty four pounds.

We had a little problem with the laptop cable at our house last night. It turns out, the folding mechanism in a recliner is not entirely dissimilar from scissors. The object that inspired this observation was the $80 power supply cable for our MacBook^TM. I contacted the fine folks at apple via chat and asked them if the $250 Apple care plan (read “insurance”) covered such a happenstance. Right after I typed the question I immediately typed “That’s what I thought. Thanks.” as I anticipated the answer to be negative. However, I was temporarily made hopeful when he said that he didn’t know whether or not that was covered and I needed to contact the Apple care people by phone. After a short conversation (in English sans accent even) I was told that the Apple care plan did cover the user cutting the cable with a chair! They are sending us a new one at no cost (provided we send the old one to them within ten days of getting the new one). Go apple! I figure I need to tear up about two more cables to make the Apple care package worthwhile. The plan still has another year and a half before it runs out, so, given the peace of mind aspect, I’m starting to think it was money well(ish) spent.

There was aband that played in Mobile last night (the Subhumans played at the Soul Kitchen where that student of mine works). The Subhumans are a british punk band from long ago that I like. I found out yesterday afternoon that Melinda and I were put on the guest list in the hopes that we could find a baby sitter and go. I didn’t even ask to be put on the guest list. How cool is that?! Alas, we couldn’t go (Scout is teething again we think), but I thought it was an incredibly nice gesture. I also found out that one of my students is compiling a list of Dr. Mullikin quotes. His favorite so far was “Well, a zombie can’t run at you in the night. They shamble at you.” I have a line (which I stole from Dr. Cain) I use in class something like “A person runs at you in the night and hands you an equation, puts a gun to your head, and demands a solution. What do you tell them?” or something similar. A student suggested in my claass that maybe it was a zambie that ran at you in the night since I like zombies so much. Hence my reply. I’m pleased someone is compiling a list.