Weekend Plans Post: Melting, Melting, Melting
We made it to the middle of June saying “holy cow, I can’t believe it’s still chilly”.
Well, that ended and ended hard. Now we’re in “Gosh, it’s hot” territory with no end in sight.
Like, it’s too hot to eat ice cream. Popsicles are the way to go.
A few years back, there was an absolutely brilliant Mutts cartoon that explained how to read the temperature using a cat:
Here’s how hot it was today:
Definitely popsicle weather. So, this weekend will be spent trying to beat the heat. One of Maribou’s besties is coming over on Saturday for breakfast and kitten time, but I believe that that’s the only thing that is actively scheduled this weekend. So there will be elbow room to turn into a puddle in the basement and count the minutes until October.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Cerberus, Divided”. Photo taken by Maribou.)
Getting a new bed delivered today, so tomorrow we will be assembling that. Tomorrow we will also move the kitten from quarantine in the bathroom across the house to isolation with interaction in the bathroom attached to the bedroom so we can begin the introduction process. Though not intentionally planned, I think putting in the new bed will help confuse the cats from a territory standpoint, which might help with the introduction. That being said, I am not sure the oldest cat will care, she is just antisocial.
We also have the usual errands and weekend chores to take care of, and hopefully that will leave us with some time to do some fun stuff as well.Report
Catnip. Catnip, catnip, catnip.Report
I went big on Amazon Prime Day. A new bed was one of the few things I didn’t get, though I was looking.Report
it’s deadly hot (literally) here today. Fortunately I have my car back (long story short: the AC drain line plugged up, mechanic pooh poohed my ‘could something be wrong with the AC based on the ‘symptoms’ I am seeing?” proceeded to take the car partially apart believing it was the suspension, then four days later found the plugged drain line. I can’t complain too much; they found a worn bearing the process, which I will take in for replacement next week when it comes in, it would have been bad had that failed at highway speed)
My main plan this weekend is that there’s a small quilt show in town. Not many vendors, sadly; I guess past years’ weren’t profitable enough for anyone other than the in-town shop and the guy who does scissor and knife sharpening. (I got mine sharpened last year and I’m careful with both scissors and knives so I should be okay on that front).
Today I’m in for part of the day trying to teach myself enough Bayesian inference to kind of explain it to my advanced biostats students….Report
Odds are, if they’re biostats students, they already know about it. Or is it “odds are that if they already know about it, they’re biostats students”?Report
I dunno, I’m starting with the prior that they don’t, after I teach the class Monday I’ll have to use the posterior information to refine what I think.Report
The AV Club used to do this thing where they came up with a list of 25 songs and then they invited bands to come in and cover them. The earlier you agreed, the better a pick you got.
Well, They Might Be Giants showed up and picked Tubthumping by Chumbawamba and the AV Club said something like “We were surprised that you picked this. I mean, we thought it’d be the last one picked!”
And then They Might Be Giants asked the AV Club Chorus (that is: Everybody who showed up that day) to join in and be the “I GET KNOCKED DOWN” part of the song and, as you can see, the AV Club Chorus *FREAKING LOVED THAT SONG*.
“We thought it’d be the last one picked!”, my aunt fanny.
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that was fun…kinda wish they’d put a bigger TMBG spin on it…but definitely fun.
this came on right after… 1990 Tonight Show jamming with Doc and the band! We were so young…
https://youtu.be/_zkRjrGmTl4Report