Lighting by Tiffanys

My trusty desk lamp started acting up. The light would flicker sometimes. I got scared that the old thing might start a fire. So I decided to replace it.

I did my shopping on Amazon. They had a nice selection. I always wanted a Tiffany style lamp. You know. Those are the ones with colored glass that bankers use.

Today I got home and found a box on my chair. Kit Kat beat me home and brought in my Amazon shipment. I plugged in the new lamp and there you go.

I have just one problem. My old lamp had a long neck which stuck out over the section of my desk where I do my bills. The new one just points the light down (on the shelf above my desk). Details.

Undetected Prank

In order to make room for our fish tank, we had to move Little Kat's desk. The desk was messy. I had Little Kat take everything off the desk. We put the mess on the floor as we moved the desk to the new location. Now we had to sort through all the stuff that had piled up on the desk.

One suspicious item was the cover to our Kung Fu Panda DVD case. I asked Little Kat why the DVD case jacket cover was on his desk. He said that he had replaced the original cover with a prank one. It seems nobody had detected the prank.

Now I am all for a good prank. But we can't be discarding our DVD covers on top of a mountain of other things which don't belong on the desk. Time to keep closer watch on Little Kat's desk. We spent a long time cleaning up his pile.

Bringing Home the Fish

Mamma Kat wants to bring home her fish from work for the summer. We just need a good place to put them. So Little Kat and I get working on furniture rearrangement today.

First we are bringing a small video game and TV desk downstairs. Then we are going to move Little Kat's homework desk where the little desk was. Finally we shall move an old white microwave cart to the place where Little Kat's homework desk used to be.

The fish tank will sit atop the white microwave kart. Luckily Mamma Kat bought a second fish tank for home last year. We will get that ready so Mamma Kat can just transport the fish from work (not the whole work fish tank).

Answering Machine Blues

Our home answering machine had degraded. It still said hello when people called, and recorded the messages. However the messages would be hard to understand. Time for a new machine.

Mamma Kat went to the store. They only have one brand of machine in any given store. Doesn't anybody use good old answering machines any more?

Well I finally hooked up the new machine that Mamma Kat got us. It was tough because the phone jack is behind a heavy desk that has even heavier objects on top of it. But the mission has been accomplished. Give us a call at the home number.