Lunch this week: Thai Monday, Indian Tuesday, leftover pork Wednesday, Chinese Thursday. Friday has to rock. Polynesian? Japanese?
I need another USB cable for my iPhone. Amazon has them for $4 with shipping, but I’m leery; sounds too inexpensive.
I change the catbox litter three times per week: both garbage eves and Saturday. I don’t want to waste an entire garbage bag on Saturday, so I put the used litter in a pool chlorine-tablet plastic container that has a lid, and store the stuff until garbage eve.
Last week the lid was missing, so I left the uncapped bucket o cat crap in the garage overnight. It’s a little stinky, but putting the bucket outside isn’t a smart option; rain would turn to bucket o cat crap into a festering pool of cat crap soup that would solidify into cat crap cement.
The next garbage eve, as I went to empty the bucket into the trash, I found that the bucket was missing. A quick search later revealed it to be outside, filled with rain water, a great nasty bucket of gray, cat-crap soup. My mother in law, protecting the cleanliness of the garage, no doubt, had relocated my stash o cat dung, and had created a 5-gallon toxic waste site. I think I’m going to apply for EPA assistance with the cleanup.
The cat in question is pictured below. Aren’t you glad you asked?
Yup, just as I predicted. So, where do you dump a bucket of festering litter-dissolved water? In the neighbor’s yard?
You wrap it in several tied-off trash bags to be put out next trash day. Speaking, unfortunately, from a similar experience. I hope all else is going well. Fair winds.
If ever a photo showed something wanting to convey the message “get that bloody camera out of my face, then, get yourself out of my face”…
It’s that one.
Haha.. the look on his face! Lol.
He needs a cardboard helmet like I made my cat.
(Check the tribute video)
Maybe some day you can tell us about what it’s like living with your mother-in-law–especially during a divorce. Heck, I had trouble living with my own mom for a brief stint during my divorce.
Had to laugh that her good deed turned into a hazard site.
So is that what was going on in all those 80s TV shows, where the bad guys would always be dumping barrels of toxic waste into the local river?
It was actually full of toxic cat-crap soup?
Looks like a job for the A-Team/Knight Rider/Streethawk/Airwolf to me…
You want to use monoprice.com for cables. They are cheap, and they are dependable.
From my vantage point, that appears to be a big cat.
That has reddish fur.
Definitely glad we asked
and as with the others I am curious how the cleanup went.
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$3.09 shipped to Orlando from monoprice for a USB cable…just another option for ya.
I am sure that this is a bit of a touchy subject, but you still have to deal with the mother in law? I thought the only benefit of a marriage in trouble is you get to loose the mother in law?
Everyday I try to figure out how to have my M-I-L “removed” with arousing suspicions and spending time in jail.
A live-in MIL (even a soon-to-be-divorced MIL) means you’ve got an inexpensive & trustworthy baby sitter. It probably also means you still have home-cooked meals every night, a reasonably clean house, someone to do your laundry…and starched & ironed shorts. You gotta take the good with the bad.
You have 2 trash pickups a week? Ritzy.
Heh, cats. I have about 11 of them running around my house. My brother and his wife’s cat had some, along with one of ours, so it’s a veritable kittenpallosa. Understand the cat crap situation entirely, though. At least they’re neater than puppies for the most part…
I think the cat, and even MORE the story…are AWESOME!
Absolutely glad the request was made. As usual, you have turned cat-crap soup into a literary delicacy.
As for lunch on Friday, I would vote for Korean food. I absolutely love cucumber kimchee, and spicy pork bulgogi is to die for too.
I’m sorry Daniel, I just HAD to do it =P
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Awesome cat picture!
awesome
Dan, I recall a post you made, don’t remember if it was here or on BRK, where you offered advice to prospective bloggers. One of your chief points of advice was to not think you need to write something everyday, for fear that if you don’t, people will start to lose interest. In light of this post and the one a few days ago about you ignoring your blog, I beg you to follow this advice.
Though in all honesty, there is a certain amount of humor in cat-crap jokes. And the cat’s adorable.
Whoops! I forgot. For Friday, fresh mozzarella and roasted red peppers sliced REALLY thin, with a balsamic vinaigrette(sp).
OMG that is too funny. Too many litter box stories to share. Glad to see you finding some “Z” stuff to post about, and hope life is feeling a little bit better.
Is it me or does that cat look like his thinking? “that crazy man collects all my poop and sticks it in a bucket, and then puts it out in the rain to make lumpy cat poop soup”
*relaxes*
And now I know.
::chuckle:: Ask and ye shall receive!
And we did ask… 
Hobbes?
No need to be scared of cheap cables on Amazon! I bought an HDMI cable for 3 cents and it works like a charm!
that is one mean looking cat buddy.
Just like our cat, it kinda runs this place
Gorgeous kitty. Like others, I am interested in the mother-in-law dynamics, but I realize that it may not be diplomatic to post about them.
I am not a cat fan, but you gotta love this Pic, its like he is channeling Garfield thinking of how to get you out of his face
LMAO Not only am I extremely glad I asked, but the picture is priceless…it almost looks like he’s leaving you the beginnings of another toxic package while wondering why the hell the human is up in his face with some strange looking mini scratching post.
Haha, I burst out laughing when I saw the cat! ^^ Looks like he’s thinking ‘What the heck does he want NOW?!’ lol