Here are the Buster reports I got while I was on vacation:
1. "Hey girl,

alls well with the critters. Buster and I played in
the sun( the tunnel) he's a good kitty. the only
thing is that every time i go to your place he's made
a bigger mess other than that he's a good kitty. have
fun

love abel"

2. "I stopped by to see Buster yesterday running amok. He was in the garage, so when I left I made sure he was in the apt. He had found one of your knitting projects (red yarn) and wound it around the chair. It was quite a task untangling it and putting it out of reach. I played with him for a while but he was also pretty entertained by himself. Perhaps he was showing off. I made the mistake of wearing a skirt with bare legs and an ankle bracelet. Next time I'm wearing long pants and bringing work gloves." (Melanie)

3. "Well today the adventure got a little crazy..
was playing with buster and you know how hard it is to
shut the door before you can get out ..it started in
the back room up stairs then every room 'till we
reached your door. door won't shut. then put him back
started racing to the door buster flies out of
no-where smash crash...We broke your nice friut bowl
by the door..bad boy hidd, i cleaned up felt bad,but
figured you'd uderstand and perhaps maybe you could
steel one from your sis's house like it. no injuries,
but then I rememdered as i cleaned the litter
box(guilt is motivating),and putting it out i locked
myself out. Great< huh? had to go to mike's work and blah blahyouknow. anyways, Sorry !!! buster has forgotten it already..to be a cat...would have been a great trade for today" (Abel)

Buster is happy I'm home but not as happy as Abel...

BAD KITTY

Ahhhhhhhh..... vacation at last! I am in Laguna Beach, living with my sister for a week. The first few days were marked by some amazing storm activity. One night my sister and I went out on to the balcony to watch the lightning streaking around - big flashes, big, long booms. It was fun and reminded me of summers in Ohio when we would watch the storms for entertainment.

I have been getting very amusing Buster reports from his beleaguered caretakers - he has been quite the scoundrel and I fear I will be coming home to a post-hurricane home scenario. Apparently my house is messier every day, and he has found a ball of yarn or two. Good kitty.

THUNDERLAND IN WONDERLAND

Ack - I am such a slacker. Last night I was so preoccupied trying to learn Photoshop in an hour that I forgot about my blog. Sorry! I'm at work, so no porn available.

I got roped into designing a logo for my artist group, Tangerine Arts. They forgot to give me a deadline until it was about a week away. Hate that. Anyway, I pumped out 2 versions, got them semi-cleaned up in Photoshop, and sent them out for approval. I know Photoshop is nothing for most of y'all but I find it baffling. Of course, I have no book, except for version 7, and I have version 6. And that book is very very thick. I guess when I come back from vacation next week I'll see about half.comming a version 6 bible of some sort.

The logo is for our impending website, which I will link for you when it is live. I have had many technical difficulties around getting materials ready for this. Fortunately, I am not actually webmistressing (thank GAWD).

One of my main beefs in life is the necessity of the artist resume. I was forced to make one for this. I am an art idealist - I want the art to be judged/appreciated/hated/loved on its own merits, and the idea of someone's opinion of my art being skewed by how much education I have, or how many shows I have been in, is repellent. I have a similar beef with the artist statement, but I have kind of learned to deal, especially since Jeff Koontz made the artist statement an art form unto itself.

Okay, rant complete.

Congratulations to Josh and Christie!