Normally, Virginia Tech Magazine is light on content I’m very interested in — glance at the articles and flip to the alumni notes section is the rule for me — but the newest issue is a keeper.
It’s the April 16, 2007 memorial issue and has full transcripts of the convocation speeches, a photo gallery of memorials around campus and elsewhere in the world, and full write-ups on the victims.
You can check it out online or download the PDF here.
Summer flu, sneezing, sweating, sleeping and coughing futilely. I don’t recommend it. The TiVo is all but empty now, at least.
Ellis Truss has two yard cats to keep mice away — apparently sawdust is like a magnet for mice — Patch and Penny. Penny has gone walkabout, as cats are wont to do, and has been gone several weeks. She’s always had a habit of staying out overnight or longer at a stretch and often just coming back to tag in, grab a bite to eat, and head out again. Motley, who was a total homebody much of her 20 years, once spent a month living in a national forest when I had an apartment in Blacksburg before showing up one day on the back porch, waiting to be let in for dinner and acting as though nothing had happened.
In any case, the Ellises have decided to get two more kittens to fill the void and when their cousins’ cat had kittens, Britt drove off to pick them up and bring them back. They’re both right at six weeks old, tiny as can be, but fearless. Both are tabby mixes (the brownish tabby has an orange stripe on her head) and, as they jump and race around like kittens their age will, getting a good photograph of them is as tricky as getting a good shot of Bigfoot.
Here the two as-yet-unnamed kittens are, during a nighttime visit to see if they were doing OK and if Patch was still hissing at them and avoiding them. (She was.) They’re playing with Kasey’s toy cars in the plans room.
The camera on my Treo is also partially to blame, of course.
