THE VICTIM
THE CULPRIT
Her attorney says she was framed.
Making sure her job is done.
The full story:
Yesterday, participating in the Medium Cool post featuring Underway (Thanks again Watergirl and BGinCHI) I was sitting on the exercise ball that I use for my office chair, typing away, answering fun questions. Emma Kate came in and began meowing at me. I ignored her. At my peril.
She reached up and stuck a claw into my exercise ball, and that’s all they wrote. LOL
Can’t be mad at her, she’s 17 years old and wants what she wants and usually gets what she wants.
New ball will be here on Thursday.
Meanwhile, she retreated to the bedroom to sulk because I yelled at her.
In my defense, one does tend to squeal when one is falling on one’s ass.
BTW, Bixby turns 6 this week. Yes, I’m in denial, too.
Here’s a respite open thread. What’s going on for your Monday.
Raven
A,patch would work
https://www.exerciseball-gymball.com/exercise-ball-patch/
randy khan
That’s some pretty impressive claw work. A ball that will hold a human being has to have pretty thick walls. Don’t let her get near your car or you may need 4 new tires.
TaMara (HFG)
@Raven: For the 6 inch rip? LOL
MagdaInBlack
I laughed, Im sorry ☺
Is the new one claw proof?
TaMara (HFG)
@randy khan: I think the fact the ball is almost as old as she is, may explain how a claw hole became a fatal gash. LOL
Baud
I want that dog as my attorney.
Krope, the Formerly Dope
Once there was a hole, I bet the air did a lot of the work.
Mary G
Bixby in the hat is cracking me up.
Here is an article in Vogue that made me smile:
Meet 12-Year-Old Crochet Genius Jonah Larson
“I was a bit of a rascal” LOL.
MattF
Evidence of the new abnormal in my neighborhood– some streets have been blocked off so that restaurants can have spread-out outdoor seating. Also, I got a haircut this morning. (!).
laura
The cat needed to best that ball!
I’m giddy and shallow- my hair-do has grown into a hair‐don’t since last I was cut-n-colored in March. My hair gal just offered an abbreviated backyard cut and a color that I’ll race home to rinse at the end of this month. So tired of looking at the march of gray. She’s scheduled for end of August still – my very last appointment. Im shaving my head and finally getting the mohawk I’ve been pining for since 1979. I’m getting a big ass mohawk to wear to work on my final day of work before retirement and I’m going to let my hair grow out and be whatever color it wants to be. Also, stoked about getting a mohawk!
TaMara (HFG)
@Mary G: Thank you. That story just brightened my entire day.
TaMara (HFG)
I hope everyone appreciates the blue “chalk” outline. LOL
trollhattan
@Baud:
Bixby Esq. for the defense!
mrmoshpotato
Please tell me Bixby in the bowler is real.
FelonyGovt
@Mary G: OMG that video is too cute. What a sweetheart.
Brachiator
@Mary G:
Likes crochet and geometry. I wonder if there is a connection.
I vaguely recall that retired LA Rams football star Rosey Grier wrote a book about needlepoint for men back in the day.
Kelly
Our cats Phoebe, 2 years old and Martin, 10 months old really think we should get up at dawn. This started back in the winter which was fine. Now they think we should get up and amuse them at 4:30 which is not our preference.
TaMara (HFG)
@mrmoshpotato: Absolutely. And he was a real sport about it, too.
geg6
@laura:
Hahahaha! I love this!
I have had very short hair for the last 35 years or so (and before that, it was very long–so sue me for liking the extremes). And I mean very short. Because my John requested it, I’ve let it get a little fuller on top and longer on the front, but I just put product on it and spike it…no hair dryer or even a brush. But that’s the end of my accommodation to his female hair aesthetics. I’ve had everyone from family, friends and co-workers tell me I should grow my hair out. Um, no. In fact, I am retiring in a few years and my plan is to shave my head completely as soon as I do. I have no desire to deal with hair ever again.
mrmoshpotato
@TaMara (HFG): LOL Love it!
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: You don’t recognize Bixby? Of course that’s him! (I’m not judging.)
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
ISTR there is at least one geometry researcher who uses knitting to express ideas in non-Euclidean geometry.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I’m getting my hair cut on Friday, but compared to the rest of you, I’m completely conventional. I don’t dye the gray though. Some years ago, I made a deliberate decision to let it go as gray as it wanted to. I wanted to be reminded I don’t have forever every time I looked in a mirror, so I should do what I wanted to then.
zhena gogolia
@TaMara (HFG):
I loved that, as well as the attorney’s slightly seedy hat.
TaMara (HFG)
@Roger Moore: There are all kinds of videos about knitting and math and knitting and coding. Crocheting probably has similar qualities.
MomSense
I didn’t know how much I needed a feline exercise ball murder!
It has been a day.
trollhattan
@Brachiator:
Rosey Grier is (still alive, I checked) a very interesting guy, far more than the typical retired NFL player of the day. He was a bodyguard for the Kennedys the day RFK was killed (52 years, 10 days ago). He was guarding Ethyl and still managed to subdue and disarm the assassin. Also acted and did the needlepoint thing.
MattF
@Roger Moore:
http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mathknit.html#smmk
JustRuss
@Kelly: My 20-year-old female(cat) is all-in on rising at dawn. I am not happy about it.
A few years ago I got one of those wading pools with the inflatable ring around the top. Our cats made short work of that. :-(
trollhattan
Another take on Rampageddon.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@trollhattan:
I remember him! He landed on Sirhan Sirhan. Lordy, what a terrible day.
CaseyL
Bixby in a bowler is da bomb.
Emma Kate as the unrepentent perp is purrfect.
My hair is also becoming a two-tone – actually, a three-tone: gray roots, brown-blond roots, and dyed red the rest of the way. I figured to dye it when we go back to “normal office hours,” if and when. I’ve also been playing with the idea of letting it grow out and dyeing just the roots, then letting it grow out and dyeing just the roots, and so on. Horizontal stripes, in other words, which could be fun.
Though my hair is thick and curly so I’m not sure if the stripes will be “in line” enough to look like stripes (i.e., a deliberate choice) or just patches (i.e., a dye job done by someone suffering from St. Vitus Dance).
Brachiator
@trollhattan:
This was back in the days before Secret Service protection was available for presidential candidates. There is a wonderful photo of RFK, Grier and another former Rams star, Deacon Jones driving down the road in a convertible with the top down.
NotMax
So she’s a real ballbuster, eh?
There’s always room for Nilsson.
;)
Matt McIrvin
@Brachiator: I believe it was the reason why Secret Service protection is now available for presidential candidates.
Matt McIrvin
@Brachiator: I remember Grier as an occasional guest on children’s TV shows, and his thing was specifically rejecting toxic masculinity and constricting gender norms. He had a song he’d sing called “It’s All Right to Cry”, very much in the Mr. Rogers vein. It was the kind of very 70s thing that would sort of vanish a decade later.
catclub
at least a mohawk is less permanent than a tattoo
Major Major Major Major
Brachiator
@Matt McIrvin:
A History teacher was a huge Kennedy supporter, and encouraged us to watch the California primary results. She was devastated by his death and had to take a leave of absence.
She was a favorite teacher of mine, and what I took away from this was not just a remembrance of a tragedy, but how a candidate can inspire people and generate a positive and fierce loyalty and a desire to contribute to the good in the world.
mrmoshpotato
LOL
Ruckus
@geg6:
I get that. I have the mostly male problem of being bald in my advanced years and finally gave up a few (ha ha) yrs ago. I just trim everything left on my noggin to fuzz once a week and learned to not give a damn. Have to be careful of sunburn though. OTOH my beard is full and long because I HATE shaving. With a damn passion. (I also decided long ago that I look like I look. No one has to enjoy it, it’s none of their damn business.)
Dorothy A. Winsor
I went for a walk with a new neighbor today, intending for us to stay 6 ft apart. We started out with her on the sidewalk and me in the street, but she moved to the street too. I kept moving away until finally I had to tell her I was trying stay 6 ft away, which seemed to startle her. She says she’s not afraid of COVID because she’s healthy. She’s also 76. She’s very nice, but she is genuinely not afraid of the virus, which seems foolish to me.
mrmoshpotato
mrmoshpotato
@Ruckus: Keep that dome covered! Sunburned scalp is no fun.
Brachiator
@Ruckus:
Everybody sees your public face when you are out in public. Except you. I appreciate when people make an effort to not be slobtastic. But I also recognize the wisdom of the Isleys.
It’s your thang, do what you wanna do,
I can’t tell you, who to sock it to
WereBear
I had an exercise ball as chair. I love them, but should be replaced every few years.
Sounds like this one was living on borrowed time.
John Revolta
Hilarious. I would’ve loved to have video of the whole incident.
John Revolta
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Is she online? You could tell her to go and check out who’s dying in your town, and how old they are. Most of the deaths where I am are of people over 60, and many of them had “no pre-existing conditions”.
randy khan
@TaMara (HFG):
That could do it.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
The ball lost balance and fell. Also, the ball is no angel and has a history of prior run ins with the cat. The cat felt threatened, and it was self defense.
zhena gogolia
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:
lol
Origuy
I watched a show on Curiosity Stream called The Origami Code. It was about how the principles of origami are being used in science. Some brilliant people are doing some amazing things.
Miss Bianca
@Mary G: Oh, cuteness!
Before I clicked over to read the story I thought for sure he must be British, because “a bit of a rascal” sounds like such a British-ism to me.
Miss Bianca
@trollhattan:
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I knew about Rosy Grier the crafter, but not about his career as a bodyguard for the Kennedys. Probably because in the 70s they were talking more about the one than the other.
Speaking of RFK’s assassination, I just watched Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the documentary on Mr. Rogers, and MAAAN…did he cover some heavy topics back in the day! Including a 1968 show where his little tiger buddy is asking one of the human companions what the word “assassination” meant . People think of Mr Rogers as being really anodyne and saccharine, but no, siree.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Handsome boy!
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: This isn’t your performance review, is it?
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That is foolish of her. Dr. WaterGirl says no more walks with the new neighbor unless she is willing to distance.
LivingInExile
Bixby of the Bailey…Rumpole is in trouble.
WaterGirl
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: LOL-tears. Life is so complicated.
J R in WV
I will never forget Bobby’s murder.
Watching that in the Dorm Lounge at the close of a great California primary election that he won. We were all excited, happy, then… the end! Was 17 year old. Will never forget.
Argiope
I lost an exercise ball to a four-year-old left unsupervised near my knitting needles. Things probably could have turned out worse, but the kid learned the adage about when mama ain’t happy.
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I let my hair go gray when I looked around and saw coloring one’s hair fooled no one.
Wumpus
Rosey Grier was also a soul singer … I wouldn’t go so far as this article and say he was “great” but I will endorse their statement “the best sports star turned musician, by a mile.”
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kbdejm/the-seriously-awesome-soul-music-discography-of-nfl-legend-rosey-grier
Major Major Major Major
@Miss Bianca: it does have an HR vibe, doesn’t it?
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: “I’d like to talk to you about…*long intent stare*…commercial technique.”
Roger Moore
@Origuy:
One of the interesting things about origami is that you can use it to do math, the same way you can with a compass and straight edge, but origami can do things you can’t do with a compass and straight edge. In particular, origami can solve cubic equations, which a compass and straight edge can’t, so you can double a cube using origami but not a compass and straight edge.
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: So if the answer comes out wrong using origami, is it a folding error, rather than a rounding error?
pluky
@Brachiator: Most definitely!
https://hellohartblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/the-mathematics-of-crochet/
Jay Noble
@WaterGirl: hahahahahaha
I’ve seen/read several thing about NASA using Origami quite extensively in solving their getting big things into small spaces and back again. They are so fascinating