Dreams and cats

The start of the semester has kept me so busy I haven't kept up much here. But I wanted to drop by and post two things:I had a dream that I got an Iphone. I opened a text-processing application and it asked me if I wanted to use vi or emacs. I was like, yay, vi! I doubt more than two people on my friends list have any idea what I'm talking about. I occasionally pine for the old days before everything was point and click interface. Yeah, I know my Mac has lots of keyboard shortcuts, but I haven't bothered to learn most of them. Here's a page about the Vi Editor on Wikipedia.Last night, Stephan and I put together the 9 ft. floor-to-ceiling cat tree that we got for the new kittens, in anticipation of their arrival on October 4 or 5. Athena is too old and arthritic to climb it, but I placed her on one of the shelves and she seemed to like it, so I helped her climb to the next higher shelf. She liked that, so I put her all the way up in the "crow's nest." She looked a little unsteady at first, but then she purred loudly and surveyed her domain from on high. I helped her get down by letting her climb onto my shoulder. It was fun to see her enjoy the cat toy she would have loved as a kitten.