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We have recently inherited a stray cat who has been wandering up onto our porch, which is pretty interesting. He definitely looks like he must have a home somewhere, but he is too afraid of us to come say hello. Wonder if he’s lost? There ARE some houses nearby but not TOO close, maybe he wandered too far from home.

Had a BBQ and saw Quinn’s (the CEO) daughter for the first time in person – saw her on the phone a few times (all our calls are video at work). Also saw hank and dan and gus and a bunch of people I used to work in an office with all the time before I started working out here in the boonies out of my house. I miss being in an office with people sometimes, but I really love working out of my house, too.

Speaking of working out of the house, I love working out of my new office. I need to get it set up a little more still – I definitely want to build some built-in shelving – some on the sides of my displays and then some in the ‘dead space’ over near the entrance from the house with the stairs. Also I definitely need a couch in here. I want to figure out a nice looking way to mount my guitars on the wall, too.

I also made some progress with the bluray ripping machine. I was having some problems getting windows to recognize the usb keyboard + mouse that I had plugged into it. Apparently the windows usb hid driver went off the deep end. FUN! But, with the addition of a ps2 keyboard and mouse to my collection, all is right with the world. Now to install the drive, fix the drivers for the system, figure which of all this ram is the correct ram for the system, and configure software to start digitizing the last of my media.

I am a bit frustrated this morning… When I went to bed in the middle of the night after the maintenance I had to do, the kitten decided to wake me up every 20 minutes. She thinks its her god-given right to make biscuits and generally walk around all over me in the mornings when she thinks I’m up.

So… sleepy… and grumpy as hell now, too… Maybe I will take off early today and take a nap, but I doubt it.