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account of our two small battles of last Saturday in my wargaming blog

while I'm looking at real estate

Someone helpfully sent me this link to a nice property and then this one to a slightly smaller place.

Yep, with my savings in hand, I should be giving those estate agents a call right soon...

in other news

I find it highly amusing that I got my hair and beard cut quite short last night and not a single soul whom I work with commented. Yes, it's possible that they noticed and didn't comment but...somehow I doubt it.

the good news and the ...*oh! shiny!*

Opening my mail, I reflect on the silliness that leads a local government candidate in my old (and I mean very old, like three moves ago) district in Virginia to keep sending me campaign literature in Maryland.

I also prefer to concentrate on the portion of my retirement fund report that tells me about the (low) four-figure gain my fund has made since the beginning of the year and let me eye gently slip over the bit that holds the five-figure "unrealized loss" figure that represents how much less my fund is worth than I have put into it over the past 18 years...

heh

Last might, the tin I pulled out for the boys was "chicken soup" (it's a line of cat foods modeled on human food, but with cat-appropriate elements). It had chicken, rice, peas, carrots, and other stuff.

When I went back in the kitchen later, I noticed that the meal had been very popular, as all the bowls were CLEAN. Except... the peas had very prominently been sorted out in each bowl and left. Clearly peas are not cat-appropriate according to my boys.



Well, except that when I went to get their dinner tonight, all the peas were gone.

:-)

And one of the little potted dill plants in the window had been knocked down into the sink and chomped. People were clearly hungry...