Deebs

This is my cat in the spring sunlight.  His full name is Digital Boy, but we call him D.B. or Deebs.  It's from the song "21st century digital boy" since he has a computer chip just under the skin on his shoulder.  It's common now but 13 years ago when we got him it was pretty cool.

He's aging and has some liver problems (too much meowine?) But he will always be a little kitty to me.

Eli the reader

As kids we read a lot.  No, really, I mean a LOT.  Some of my most vivid early memories are of libraries and reading:

• The Lexington library and how it seemed to have carpet everywhere
• The massive downtown library that smelled.. Historic (in a good way)
• The scary and official process of checking out a book (what was that caThunk or flashing light about anyway?  
• Mrs. Kane, the gradeschool librarian from whom you did NOT want to get the 'late book' chat regardless of her being one of your friend's mom.. 
• Discovering the Tintin series in the children's room downtown
• My sister "winning" a book for having read more than anyone else.  Guinness Book of Records.
• The fact that church and the library had many of the same rules was not lost on me.  Quiet, reverent, beautiful architecture.
• I remember how cool we thought Amy Carter (the president's daughter) was because whenever her parents dragged her along to an official event, she always seemed to be somewhere in the background reading a book.

So it thrills me to see Eli so completely engrossed.  In this picture he's taking those lost few milliseconds in the family morning routine to catch a few pages of his current book.

Ah.. TNR

Dave uses my hammer to reattach his exhaust

.. while many people wait and post on facebook...

And here is where we went...