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Tuck is no longer Tuck. Tuck is now Smaug. Smaug is now eyeing his reflection in the mirror suspiciously. I think he distrusts the other cat’s motives. Or perhaps he just wants to make a friend who spends more time playing on the floor and less time saying “No!” and pulling him off of counters and out of garbage cans.

Smaug is Smaug for three reasons: first, because Smaug is the name of the dragon in The Hobbit, and kitty yonder seems noble yet crafty, just like a good dragon should. Secondly, Smaug sounds an awful lot like smog, and he is very smoggy-smoky colored, so yay double entendre. Thirdmost, it’s the name that has stuck. Tuck stuck not, or at least not enough to be a daily name. When Smaug was Tuck, I usually just called him kitty-kitty. Now that he has been tranSMAUGrified, I generally call him Smauggidy Smaug-Smaug Smagoo. This, as you can easily see, is an Improvement.

Today has been a very hard day. It started out with my usual battle with the coffee maker, and this time, Mr. Bunn kicked mine. Despite the fact that I had onne (one and only one (yay geekish grammar)) coffee filter in the machine, said filter decided not to filter so much as to contain. Coffee grounds and reallyHot water went most everywhere. Smaug was seriously impressed with my new game, but I was not so much so. I spent tenplus minutes cleaning up the resultant mess, then made a second pot, which brewed much more smoothly. Unfortunately, I forgot to drink it.

Today’s Score:

Coffee: 2.
Rob: 0.

As I mentioned in the comments of a post past, I’ve done a bit of editing to the source code of my site. Internet Explorer doesn’t like my columns. Never really has. Since I didn’t really care for IE, either, I didn’t let it bother me for a while. Unfortunately, I’ve recently been feeling empathetic and have decided I need to make my site IE-friendly again. I played with the CSS for around half an hour this evening, but didn’t get anywhere. If you visited while I was tinkering, you probably saw some pretty weird things. As it is, the site’s design has changed ever so slightly: the blue lines that faded to nothing along the right side of the page are now a consistent, yet very faint, collection of blue lines along the length of the page. The reason for this is really technical, but suffice it to say it should make my job easier when I’m trying to make IE pretend to be a real browser. :)

G’night, all.