Two Unrelated Things

One, Nina got a laser pointer from Petco yesterday. It's freakin' awesome. Zipper has always loved attacking the mouse on a string on a stick that we routinely have to replace, but this provides a whole different kind of entertainment, both for her and us. The fun with Mouse is basically just making it jump over her head and watching her do backflips all day, but with the laser pointer we can have her running all over the damn house, since we can move the dot from right at our feet to the far bedroom wall instantly she's constantly just sprinting around after it. It's definitely much more of a workout for her, and hopefully will help burn off some of that spare chase-and-kill energy that always seems to lead her to my foot in the morning.

Two, holy crap the weather report. For most of today we're just looking at cold and cloudy with a slightly more than 50% chance of some sort of cold precipitation, but then at 10PM (Weather Underground does their detail view in 3 hour chunks) it goes to 100% chance of snow. The only thing that changes for the next 24 hours is the description of what is guaranteed to fall on us. I think my favorite is from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM, when we will get "Definite Light Snow, Chance of Light Ice Pellets (sleet)." That sounds like fun. Nice that Wednesday is my day off from work, seeing as how I don't have a Jeep anymore and I just put in for remote connectivity approval yesterday.