Monday, Tuesday, cats, the Smithsonian, etc
On Monday evening we went to the YMCA and signed up. We haven't actually done anything there yet, but it does mean I can go swimming again. (I used to swim like a fish and I had a lifesaving qualification, but I've hardly been in water in five years.) To the right is the photo they took of me for my ID card. I think the moral is that I need to lose the beard after Halloween.
Later we went to the diner. {{Fin}} asked for soup. The soup had a maggot in it. The manager told her it was just a piece of cracker. This is the same diner which once served one of our party a plate of stir-fry with a fly half-fried in and struggling to get free. I think we should stop going to that diner.
{{O'Keeffe}} and {{Rothko}} have disappeared twice since I last wrote, and both times we found them hidden in a different part of the house, once under the bed in the spare room, once under a chest of drawers. Apparently this is a cat thing to move your nest every so often in case of predators, but I was really rather worried when I couldn't find {{Rothko}} anywhere around. He's walking around independently now, but he's not weaned yet.
The {{Metacity}} blog is now appearing on news.gnome.org, a planet for projects. (I know some of you are going to comment saying you want it on p.g.o, but it's not up to me.)
And I've saved the most interesting piece of news for last: three pieces of Fin's art are going to be in a show between noon and 5 p.m. this coming Saturday in the Director's Conference Room in the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20004. Fin will be there, and so will the rest of us, so drop by and say hello.