Friday Cat Blogging – 27 February 2015

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My biopsy is scheduled for this morning, so once again you get early cat blogging. Hopper got center stage last week, so this week it’s Hilbert’s turn.

Speaking of Hopper, though, a few days ago she demonstrated the wonders of the internet to me. That wasn’t her intent, of course. Her intent was to chew through the charging cord of one of my landline phone extensions. This effectively turned the phone into a paperweight—and not even a very good one. But then I looked on the back of the charger and there was a model number etched into the plastic. So I typed it into Google. Despite the fact that this phone is more than a decade old, I was able to order two used replacements for $4 each within five minutes. Truly we live in a miraculous age.

But I still wish Hopper would stop chewing on every dangling cord in the house. Steps need to be taken, but I’m not quite sure yet what they’ll be.

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