Total word count, hearthcraft book: 53,044
New words today: 1,503
Carrot count: 2+
Rounding out chapters today. More on oil lamps, mostly kitchen stuff.
I was ‘helped’ by a five-month old ginger kitten who thinks stomping on my keyboard and chasing cursors and pointers is fun. He squished himself behind the monitor at one point and did the meerkat/sock puppet thing, peeking at me over the top. I nearly fell off my chair because I laughed so hard. And then he stuck his head into my glass of iced tea and slurped a good portion of it up before I caught him. The eternal purring began to get to me; at first it was cute, then I got tired of it, now it’s disturbing in its unceasingness. (Incessence?) I had to throw him out at one point and close the door to the office. When I let him back in after my next break he climbed all over the place again before literally falling over in my lap and passing out. I was wondering when that would happen; I knew I remembered kittens playing hard then falling over in a corpse-like slumber. What was amusing was when he woke up, he literally popped his head up, gave a little “Meer!”, then started purring again as he climbed back onto the desk to chase the pointer and appearing text. Cute, but exasperating.
OMGods. I read kitten and drink and computer and my heart jumped. That’s when the cat recipe book would be coming out. I finally started using the laptop in the office again instead of our trestle table, because my nerves were shredded from two children and a wife putting drinks near it.
Heh. The worst thing that’s happened to me so far is a full cup of apple juice shorting out my third-to-last keyboard thanks to the boy, and losing the semi colon key off the laptop because he was suddenly seized by the desire to play piano like Glenn Gould was doing in the YouTube video he was watching. No, my computers die mysterious non-fluid-related deaths.