My workplace can exasperate me at times — if your workplace never exasperates you, they’re paying you too much — but not today.
Everyone at the Daily Press, Desert Dispatch and Hesperia Star received a Virginia Tech “in remembrance” button today, and the Daily Press is accepting donations for the Virginia Tech memorial fund.
After the dark events of this week, time for something black, but not in the least dark.
Lucky learned the trick first, but Hanna might be the one who’s really mastered it. Today, both will drag a toy they want to play with (usually a prey object on a string attached to a stick — Lucky in particular likes his pretty beaten up and unrecognizable, while Hanna prefers very cheap and lightweight toys she can carry around easily, stick and all), drop it at my feet and meow. Hanna will sometimes actually drop it on my feet and give a very long and involved “mrr-row-ow” meowing.
We never taught them this; they came up with it on their own. Pretty useful, though, since there’s no question of what they’re asking for.
