Low light and PhotoShop make for odd results. Here are three looks at Andy, taken in very low light without a flash, then heavily manipulated to find anything of interest.
Pointillistic Andy in the shade. Get the point?
Solarized Andy in a bit more light. Hey, great detail in the carpet! LOL!
Detached Andy floats slightly above the floor, but you can see some eyes in this one. And his horns…!
Yes, Taking photos of black kitties is a challenge!
I think my kitties are pretty cute, but I’m prejudiced. On the other hand, when I ran Dougy’s photo through a “How Sexy Is You Profile Photo?” gizmo on Facebook, it came back with the astounding result below:
Dougy is a “sex kitten” apparently. Who knew? Who knew…!?
I spent most of yesterday working on a PowerPoint presentation for the local RSVP, only to have the file crash at the end of the day. Yeah, I saved often and after every major change. Yeah, I saved it two places, “just in case…”! Yet, inexplicably, something went wrong.
Maybe the file was too big for the memory stick. Whatever. Though it looked OK at the end where I was working, none of the illustrations (of which there were a couple hundred or so, I guess) showed in most of the earlier slides, just the text.
Of course, I have earlier versions of the file that are OK, just a day’s work short of where the one I was working on yesterday was when it crashed. I’m hoping the RSVP director has another copy of the file up to the point I started on it yesterday. Until I hear back from her, I am pretty much dead in the water.
I wonder if Dougy will let me hide in his box.
I’ve tried all the old tricks to try to revive the missing files. Of course, since I stupidly went over to Windows 10, I don’t know how to do certain easy things that I knew to do in earlier versions to return to earlier times and missing files. Progress.
It is difficult to remember that sometimes today’s naughty kitty is the result of errors made raising said kitty when he was a wee kitten.
For example, this screen shot from an early video of Andy and Dougy shows where I failed to properly bend one of my little “twigs” when he was a very naughty “sapling”!
Yes, that’s Dougy in the circle! Bad kitty! Very bad kitty indeed!
So, since I failed to correct the behavior at the time, should I feel upset with Dougy now when he openly defies me now, and scratches that same piece of furniture?
Dougy being a very naughty kitty…
and enjoying it!
The question was rhetorical. I’m reaping what I sowed! (Or failed to sow.) In Dougy’s defense, he doesn’t do this naughty thing too often.
Dougy is an interested kitty. He watches the morning news shows with me each morning and is better informed than at least 50% of the electorate.
“Did you hear what Carson said about surviving a mass shooting…?”
Dougy is incredulous, but what do you expect from a kitty!?
Bad kitty! You may not like what the polls say, but that sort of language still is unacceptable in this house!”
Dougy hisses at the screen when the latest poll results appear.
“Turn it to an old movie! I can’t stand any more of this!”
Poor kitty! The news just isn’t to his liking these days!
Andy has always used the light stand by my glide rocker as a perch. I think there may be a couple reasons: heat from the three-way lamp, and safety by proximity to me.
That doesn’t prevent a Dougy incursion, however, and Dougy brazenly takes over Andy’s spot this morning.
Andy loves his perch!
“Hark! What’s this!?”
Andy suspects trouble’s afoot or at least on four paws…!
Here comes trouble!
Dougy doesn’t want the light stand perch so much as he doesn’t want Andy to have it!
“Boo on you, Andrew!”
Doug tries to discourage Dougy by putting his coffee on the light stand. Dougy snorts in the coffee….
“Curses! All I did was let Dougy get cat sniff-snot in my coffee!”
A failed plan and Dougy takes over the prize!
Here he is, the little kitty prince!
Dougy is very pleased with himself!
Extremely very pleased!
“Take that Andrew!”
Andy, in the meantime, decided to take a snack or two and start his nap in another favorite place.
Dougy and I had fun time earlier this morning. I brought out a wand toy he’d not played with for a few weeks, and it was like a new — and very, very exciting! — toy. Woo hoo! Dougy played so hard, he had to take his morning nap a lot earlier than usual today.
Andy, however, just sat it out. Apparently the old toy wasn’t exciting to him. Or he had other interests at the moment. Regardless, I lost track of him till I sat down at my computer.
I felt a thump on my leg. Andy was beside my chair, trying to get attention.
Or a good scritching.
What a look, Andy! He definitely wasn’t pleased to be left out of the morning’s fun!
Scritched, Andy hopped up on my computer desk to keep track of me from eye level.
OK, kitty, I get your point!
I’m a fan of McDonald’s buttermilk crispy chicken sandwich. Freshly made, it is everything the packaging promises. Let it sit awhile under the heat lamp, and it is, in the euphemism of the Internet, a POS. This morning, I got the POS version.
I like this sandwich…when it’s fresh!
It probably isn’t a good idea to charge someone $6.05 for a dead sandwich, especially someone who blogs and has a work history as a quality assurance fellow. I have my standards, and I am reasonably articulate about them!
I barely managed to bite two chunks off this sandwich, but they were inedible. I had to spit them out.
I tried to eat this monstrosity, and managed to get a couple chunks off it. But I couldn’t chew them! The idea of wasting the sandwich goes contrary to my quality training. On the other hand, that sandwich was dead before I got it. It shouldn’t have ended up in a customer’s hands.
“I should take this back to the restaurant and complain,” I thought. Yeah, get in my car and drive completely across town and have the hassle of getting in line to complain. “I mean, this is the first time this has happened to me…wait, no it isn’t!”
Dried-out bun, wilted lettuce, soggy tomato, leather-like breaded chicken cutlet. Of course I want to pay $6.05 for it! Make me another one just like it!
Time of day may be a factor. I bought the sandwich just before the changeover to breakfast menu. I can imagine someone saying, “Don’t throw that chicken sandwich out. Someone might buy it, but we won’t want to make one fresh when it’s this close to changeover.”
Yeah, you don’t expect 5-star quality from a fast food outlet, but you can expect a specific consistent level of acceptable quality from a McDonald’s outlet.
That’s been the McDonald’s promise and the measure of it’s success: Reasonably tasty meals that are the same no matter when or where you buy them from a McDonald’s outlet.
The local one failed today. Big time.
Well, it is Caturday. Shame on you for suggesting I am losing it!
Anyway, Caturday is a day of indolence here, more so than normal. (Which is to say, we are pretty indolent on Caturdays!)
Here’s Andy being indolent.
Like the two Dougs, Andy gets indolence right!
I always liked this photo of Andy because under most lighting he appears to be a black kitty. In certain light, though, his Birman father’s markings show in Andy’s (and Dougy’s) pelage. Cool!
Any other day, Andy would have fits if he spotted Dougy on top of his favorite blue carrier. Not today. Guess it’s too early in the morning to be confrontational!