A bit of this and that

In my quest to study reiki, I must occasionally undergo attunements. These are accompanied by a period of detox. I adore being awoken with nausea. It's almost as cool as being woken up by the harpy shrieks of my wife and her friends playing Super PuzzleFighter Turbo, complete with the noise of refuse hitting the TV, walls, and ceiling.

Anyhow, the wife brewed me some herbal tea, which I'm currently sipping.

Some of you no doubt read krasota's account of our resident vole, who is now a resident of some field (or some predator's gut). I told her that if we had a cage, we could keep it. I could tell she was tempted, but she also recognized the intelligence in that tiny creature's eyes and knew it would escape a cage as surely as it escaped her various traps.

Such a shame. I would have enjoyed the wee rodent's company as I toil away on my Nanowrimo project, second draft. The first draft was eaten. I suspect my wife is to blame, though she tells me it's my own damn fault for not having three separate backups. I thought using a five-year old PC-formatted floppy was sufficient. I didn't trust my old Performa to keep the data on the hard disk, so I entrusted it to a faulty floppy.

Ah, well. My second 2000 words are much better than my first 2000.