The Cat Post Intelligencer

So here I am with an older picture from when DMM’s person was here.  Look there I am with Flat Daisy Mae Maus!  Cool huh?  I was just rolling around with excitement. I particularly liked that her person thought I was tiny!  Those of you who know how picked on I am can appreciate that I am sure.

This last week was cold.  My tail was so cold it almost fell off.  Really.  The Woman who always has cold hands touched it and it was icy to her touch so imagine how it felt to me, who is normally warm!  I will say that she was kind enough to use her cold hands to warm it back to a normal chill rather than a tail-cicle.  The heat, as Gemini and Ichiro have said is back on and now I can stretch out and relax again.  Of course, tonight we have wind (again) so I hope we don’t lose power for another day again soon.  I get too cold.

This is my “I am enjoying rubbing my face in the nip” face. It is from the box we got from Paws and Effect.  It is very good nip!  Ichiro may have taken the nip pickle but I like the real thing!

We are getting back into the swing of life after the snow. It started last Sunday and then it snowed on Monday and again on Tuesday.  But on Tuesday Dad went to work anyway because he had missed the day before.  Then it snowed all day Wednesday and it was supposed to rain on Thursday, but we got freezing rain for a few hours and then it turned back to snow.  So then no one could go anywhere!  On Friday, Momma woke up and there was no power and it was cold. And you still couldn’t go many places because it was raining but there was still lots of snow and ice on the road and we live on a big hill.

So they froze for awhile and then they went out and got a few groceries from the local store.  They didn’t have lights either so nice clerks were helping people with flashlights.   And they had emergency lights so you could see a little bit!  One of the three main roads out of town was closed because of downed trees so they came back home and piled on blankets.

Fortunately the power came back on around midnight or so, although the power company had estimated about 5 AM.  I was very glad because I was getting chilled.  I do not like that. Poor Chey had a very cold tail.  Momma was worried about her cold tail!  She did not worry about my cold tail! Just because I am floofy does not mean I do not get cold.

But then it rained and rained some more and although we had wind, we did not have any more downed trees.  In fact, we were surprised that we have not heard about floods yet.  This is good as the valley floods all the time. After a week like that you can see why I need some nip!

Okay, so this is an older photo.  It’s from when Daisy Mae Maus and the Feline Americans and their human came to visit me!  I’m showing off what a handsome guy I am.  You can’t see him, but Skeezix is there too making sure I do the catwalk thing just so.  He said I nailed it.  Of course then he said I could go right to fashion modeling and I found out that meant modeling clothes!  I’m not sure about that.  I was kind of relieved when Mom and DMM’s human left and went to lunch and Skeezix couldn’t like think up a great outfit for me.

I’m still talking at night but I was getting better.  I started at 4 or 5 in the morning and was doing the normal “Hi, I’m a cat and now I’m awake and I think you should be too” stuff so that Mom just closed the bedroom door and Chey and Gemini and I would run around and do cat stuff until it was time for them to get up.

But then, the power went out in the middle of the night and I got scared and I haven’t been the same since.  Don’t tell anyone I’m kind of afraid of the dark.  Chey laughs at me for that.

Oh and happy Year of the Dragon!!!!

Several cats posted in protest on Wednesday.  Let me tell you why.

At this point a lovely author who wrote books about a race called the Cheysuli has never complained that I was named after her books.  If she did, I’d have the legal right to prove that this is my name and perhaps negotiate that I was only know as “Chey” rather than use my full name online.  Under SOPA, any one of her fans could complain that I was infringing copyright and my site could be pulled down.  It would be up to me to spend the money to prove my innocence.  Not a very American thing is it? But that’s what SOPA would do.

Further, if our friends across the Pond were accused of doing the same thing, if their websites were hosted in the United States the same thing would happen to them.  They are not residents of the country. They would be breaking no laws in their own country.  They would continue to live in their country but the United States would be telling them what they could and could not do.  Americans complained about the British and taxation without representation.  This would be censorship without representation or recourse.

Sparkle has some great links.  She was one of the cats who went dark in protest.  So did Max and the Hotties.  Other cats spoke out in protest about why this was important.  Now for those families who find all this political stuff boring, let me just nail the lid on my coffin if my legislators actually pass SOPA (I can get in trouble just for linking to these sites because they use material that could be considered copyrighted, although they give credit where credit is due) and give you this great Youtube Link about what could happen.  And if you need a visual, this one is important.

Imagine an Internet with no Chey!

Ichiro may brag about getting his photos done but Momma used the very first picture with the camera to take a picture of me. You can see it’s a little blurry because she didn’t know what the aperture was set at and she was focused on the cat tree.

I think I am an excellent subject because I have so many furs it is hard to tell that I am all blurry!

I am staying safe inside away from the nasty snow.  I do not like cold.  I like to get under the covers because I get cold. My Daddy laughs at me because he thinks I should always be warm but I am a very sensitive little cat.

Well here I am, posing for the new camera.  Don’t I look great?  This is the first series of photos Mom took with her new 60D.  She is using the kit lens which she likes because it’s 18-135mm which means it’s a wider range than what she had on her Rebel XT.  Also she has way more ISO settings.  She is still figuring out the camera controls because a lot of things have changed since her Rebel.

I am happy to model.  I like it because now she doesn’t have the flash going off so much.

Today I watched the snow coming down.  Mom went out and took some photos of the front of the house and I even peeked out the front door, although I ran back inside very quickly. I put my foot on something that had snow on it.  It was too cold. Mom called me her Brave Boy.  I am a very Brave Boy.  But I am still talking a lot at night.  A friend of ‘Kaika’s is helping me though which is so nice.  We can’t say how much we appreciate that.