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This week has been tiring and busy, so I haven't been in much of a posting mood. Not that I've been in a bad mood, but I'm fairly wiped out at the end of the day.

Milo the Cat continues his self-imposed, storage-space hiatus. He's almost like a sad kid who didn't want to go to his grandparents' home for the summer. When I am asleep, he does get out. When I'm at home, he stays in the storage space. When I check on him, he just stares at me, keeping his distance. I am getting some faint glimmers of hope. He meowed at me today when I looked in on him an hour ago. Baby steps, I guess.

I did catch up on my DVR. I've been really enjoying this season of "RuPaul's Drag Race." I thought the Snatch Game episode was a bit of a bore, but the queens are a varied bunch this season. So far, my favorite two are Bob the Drag Queen and Thorgy Thor, both of whom are doing well in the competition. I strongly suspect Bob the Drag Queen will win it.

The local softball season was supposed to start with a scrimmage this past Tuesday, but the fields were too wet from a couple of rainy days. I was both disappointed and relieved, as work has me so tired I wasn't sure what my game was going to be like.

On the car front, I found a brown Kia Soul that I really, REALLY like. I test drove a 2014 last weekend, but there is one at Carmax that's a 2015 with fewer miles and less cost, so I'm having it shipped down to Cincinnati from Illinois. I'll give it another test ride when it shows up, but I think I'm wanting it.

I'm in a bit of a creative slump. I've started writing Issue #20 of my comic, but it's slow going. I guess I'm just not in the mood.

I am getting the itch to do some hard-core Spring Cleaning, including some purging of the comic books. I tried this once with little success, but I'm starting to buy into the idea of uncluttering those that I really haven't read or wanted to read for some time.

I burned through some of my earned credit card points this week. I decided to get into my "wish list" and get some DVDs. One that just came available this week is 7500, which I wrote about a while back. It never got a wide-release in the US, which is surprising as it's better than some of the other crap that has been put into theaters of late. I'm watching it as type this up. I have seen the movie as someone posted a subtitled version on YouTube.

Luckily, the weekend is looming and I'm grateful. I'm looking forward to sleeping in and enjoying the warm, sunny weather we're supposed to have.

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Enjoy your weekend. As you say, baby steps.

Thanks! :)

Have you tried luring Milo out with wet food, or maybe a can of tuna?

I went one step further. I opened a can of my stinkiest wet food at the door to the storage space and put a small floor fan behind it, to push the smell into the space. It didn't work.

It sounds like you need a break. Have you considered a vacation? In fact, I don't recall you taking one for a while.

Now that's it is warming up, I have thought about getting away as well. I have a training class in Chicago in July. I may tack on a few days and stay up there.

Hmmm... it may be time to break out the big gun: cat nip. You know he already loves the stuff. Perhaps if you left some out during the day (when you are there), he might be enticed to come out. Right now it sounds as if he's far too comfortable with having free range at night or when you're not there. Something needs to break his pattern.

He actually did that odd "yowling" meow last night while I was upstairs. He's getting periodically vocal.

I may get the cat nip out this weekend and see if it helps.

It looks like we're going to wind up with a tuxedo cat named Dudley. I don't know if you saw the photo and story in my previous post. We've started to feed him and he stays with us a lot on our patio. His owners want to re-home he and his brother Han, a buff colored male. My sister won't have cats in the house, so I don't see how we can keep him from roaming, but he's a loving and a handsome boy, been neutered and has a chip.

Dudley is a cutie! I'm surprised the owner has all those dogs in the house, but won't allow the cats.

If I were closer, I'd have taken them both.

I thought the same thing. I don't think the cats are the problem. When I spoke with them yesterday, they were tearing out the carpet room by room. It has been destroyed, but my money's on the dogs for destroying the carpet.

Oddly enough, last night right after I replied to this post, my sister came home with groceries. The door from the garage to the house and garage door were open. Han, who has not visited us before, ran into the house and into my bedroom. Dudley followed close by. We were able to pick up both cats and carry them outside. They are very affectionate.

You were the first person I thought of when Kelli, the mother of the cats' owner, told me they wanted to re-home both brothers:)

Darn that distance. Milo seems like he's set up shop in the storage space. I still cannot seem to coax him out for the long haul.

And the boys sound really sweet. They'll make someone great pets.

I thought the snatch game was lame as well.

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