Today was not spectacular by any means, this evening however, as cranky as I feel my health has improved...
The neighbor, a nice man from Trinidad has offered many a conversation to me. Over the fence and in the front yard during regular yard work. The man seems to be nice enough. And after three years I think I have come to know him as Dave. If that's not his real name it wouldn't surprise me, people just don't know their neighbors like they did when I was a kid. Anyhow to the meat of the story... We receive a knock at the front door, then the door bell. I quickly turn on the camera in the corner of my computer screen and since I'm all the way in my basement office I do not rush to answer the door, I figure my family will deal with it. So my daughter opens the door and a few moments later calls for me saying the neighbor wants to talk to me... The conversation goes something like this...
Me: Hey neighbor, how's it going?
Neighbor: (in a trinidad accent) Let me ask you sometin' is yer cat out and about these days?
Me: She did escape from us yesterday but otherwise she's been in for the past month.
Neighbor: Oh, ok well she's done it again, there's shit all over the side of our house...
Me: Ok, i'll come over and clean it up and bring the cat to show you which one is mine.
Neighbor: Thanks...
He then smiles and walks back to his house... Strange thing is, our litter box is full of cat poop and was changed less than a week prior.. so anyhow my son and I go over there, a little embarrassed and somewhat angry at the cat and we clean up what looks like a months worth of cat poop... So I show him the cat and he gives me a puzzled look and says he's seen her around but is not sure if that's the one doing it... Now that I've cleaned up the poop he begins to tell me he thinks it's the big fat Grey cat from accross the street...
BAH Humbug!!! I can understand the frustration as a home owner who doesn't even own a cat. We generally try to keep our cat indoors at all times and soon with the snow flying and the cold air outside, my cat will absolutely refuse to be outside. It's just the way she is...
The last thing I need is to have a cranky neighbor, hopefully he's satisfied with the steps I took to make him happy and to reassure him that I'm a responsible pet owner...
Well, I'm copying some music to my mother's MP3 player, better get back to it :)
OH, and before I forget, I added a link to my friend Kat Armstrong's website. It's not the usual canned blog, she's a prominent member of the geeks community and a good friend of Chris Pirillo from lockergnome.com He's the geeky fella from TechTV from a few years back now... You should visit Kat's website she's a heck of a human being... http://www.katarmstrong.com/
Cheers!
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