grrrrrr

i love my job. i love my boss. i discovered today that i hate my boss' boss. not just dislike - loathe. i want to punch her. i want to kick her. i would love, love, love to make her cry. it wasn't just one thing, it's who she is day in and day out - today i finally figured it out. i am so incredibly lucky to not be her. i can't imagine even trying to live with myself if i were just as mean and arrogant and self-serving. i can't imagine coming up with a pleasant rest of the post after this, so i'm going to stop now.

walking to work

wow. i walked to work yesterday. then i walked home for lunch. then i walked back to work, and home again at the end of the day. all told, i walked for about 14 minutes. it was great.
one of our kitties escaped today. thank goodness it was balloon - the only one smart (and well behaved) enough to get back on his own. we are still trying to figure out what he did - he disappeared from one balcony and appeared on the other one. there are no connecting gutters or anything like that, and we see how he could have gotten on to the roof, but not off... it's a mystery and balloon refuses to repeat the trick. i've managed to rig up a screen across the front of one balcony so nobody else can escape, but of course, hobbes only wants to go on the un-screened balcony. we spoil our kitties shamelessly, so i spent a significant portion of the day sitting out with him to make sure he didn't try something stupid and fall off.