It was Milo’s first birthday this weekend. Obviously he didn’t know what was going on but he loved getting lots of new things and seems to have had a good weekend.
Despite that we have lived in out current house for nearly a year now the cats I still got hiding places that I don’t know where they are. The cats are shutdown stairs at night so we can leave Milo’s bedroom door open and so they need rounding up. Last night I found Roo (whose real name is Finzi) easily but Freud was no where to be seen. After 20 minutes of searching high and low I had gotten to the point of wondering if he’d got outside and was standing in the back garden when I turned round and there he was looking at me out of the window as though he had been there all the time. Perhaps cats have access to the other 8 dimensions predicted by string theory – it would certainly explain a lot.
When we where out walking at Cramond yesterday we saw the Invincible a ship that I had the day off school to go and see being launched. (not the best story in the world I admit but it means something to me…)
I read the Dirk Gently part of the Salmon of Doubt at the weekend. This turns out to be a number of chapters – some of which are clearly unrelated. Although fragmented and unfinished they do underline what a sad loss the death of Douglas Adams was. It seems odd to me that the book was not published as a book of essays (which it is) and the fiction stuff included as appendices. I guess they thought they might sell more this way.
Posted by Mark at February 10, 2003 01:08 PMI once got an email from Douglas Adams in 1993. I had bought a leather-bound copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide, which featured his email address at the end of his foreword.
I decided to write to him and ask him what he was up to. He was compiling a report on how widespread and through which forms of media the Guide had been published....
douglas.adams@cix.co.uk I think it was. Sadly no reply anymore...
Posted by: Ijonas Kisselbach at February 11, 2003 09:23 PMAh - happy birthday to the sproglet then! Cats actually have the unacknowledged ability to become completely invisible at will. This explains a great many things.
Posted by: Richard Wright at February 17, 2003 02:39 PM