Subj : Posts To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Mar 04 2020 11:07:00 Hi Nancy! BM>>>> Agree. Some things are urgent and need to be done _now_; most not so BM>>>> urgent. And for me sometimes those breaks are when ideas percolate BM>>>> through. NB>>>> And I've just had a couple of days where I needed to do some other NB>>>> things, and didn't have the oomph to do messages as well... BM>>> Priorities! Sure, would be nice if had the time and energy but BM>>> sometimes doesn't work out that way. NB>>> Exactly. :) BM>> And sometimes delays work out. All of a sudden the thought breaks BM>> through "if I do this". Or even "good thing I didn't rush into that". NB>> True... :) BM> And sometimes it's "I really should have done that last week: now I BM> have twice as much to do! ) NB> True... some days you just can't seem to win for losing... ;) Yup. Not a bad thing to have it occur occasionally, can be a bit frustrating but that's the way things go. NB>>> Ming was very definitely Grampa's cat... when Grampa died, he took NB>>> care of "Grampa's woman" for the next 4 years... We interacted with NB>>> Ming whenever we would come to visit, never pushed, just let him NB>>> check us out, give a little attention... When Gram died, he did go NB>>> into a depression, like there wasn't any purpose to life any more... NB>>> So when we came to get him, he perked up just a little, recognizing NB>>> us as good things from his "former" life.... BM>> "I remember these people - they were good!" NB>> Yup... or at least, "they weren't all that bad"... BM> Oops, yes, forgot the cat's viewpoint! NB> After all, he was a Siamese... ;) You were lucky to be let into the kitty's life!! NB>>> And when Richard removed the toe claw that had grown into his pad, NB>>> life was good again... he was glad to come with us... BM>> I'm half-recalling the fable about the slave thrown into the Coliseum, BM>> the lion recognizes him from years earlier when pulled a thorn from BM>> his paw. NB>> I think that was Pericles...? BM> Didn't seem quite right: Pericles was a builder; Androcles is the BM> slave pulling the thorn per https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0156.html, NB> That's right.... Androcles was the one... :) BM> though same source also listed an Aesop fable of a slave pulling a BM> thorn from the lions' paw but no name. ...Maybe Aesop wasn't sure BM> either but since at the time no Google and just left out any name. NB> Or maybe Aesop knew, but along the way some publisher left it NB> out... ;) Or a scribe: "Ah poo! Dripped my wine on the original manuscript and now I can't read what that name was. I'll just make a minor change and no one will be the wiser. ....There!" BM>>> Pretty much: she had her places to lay down, her routines. Never did BM>>> figure out her trigger: would be napping on the Living Room floor, BM>>> we'd be watching TV (a recording). Ten minutes to ten she'd wake up, BM>>> look around, slowly walk to her cage in the Computer Room (was on the BM>>> first floor back then), and go to sleep. The Cuckoo Clock has a 'bump' BM>>> at five minutes before the hour, we though that was the trigger so BM>>> stopped to test - nope. Never did figure out what her alarm clock was. NB>>> Some animals, particularly dogs, seem to have an inbuilt clock... :) BM>> Sure seemed to be some sort of internal clock as we tested whatever BM>> may have been a signal. Most logical was the cuckoo clock as we heard BM>> a slight clunk at about five minutes of the hour, so maybe an inaudible BM>> to us humans noise at ten of? Stopped the clock - nope. Almost made BM>> sense not to be Cuckoo as we'd be in the Living Room the previous hour BM>> and if she was snoozing wouldn't react. NB>> Yup. :) Totally makes sense not to be the Cuckoo clock.... :) BM> Right, and never did figure out, though we didn't do an exhaustive BM> check. More figured due to her internal clock. NB> Probably. :) And some people can do similar: awaken each morning at the same time. (Wonder how they do at the DST change?) ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Take two crows and caw me in the morning. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .