Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-08-19:

"It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! Away with lamentation! Away with elegies and dirges! Away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! Let the dead eat the dead. Let us living ones dance around the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance!" -- Henry Miller, "T[r]opic of Cancer"

*sigh* I had to lop off another chunk of cat again; this time she does look a little lopsided. It always seems to be in the same general area, on the left side of her neck, that the knots/mats form. She was flinching when I touched that spot; let's see whether removing the knot makes her more comfortable.

Fortunately Perrine likes the grooming brush enough (as long as I let her control how it's applied) that letting her rub against it was a sufficient treat to undo her annoyance at me for holding her down and trying to isolate the knot to snip off.

acroyear70 provided another reason for me to refer to DST as "Daylight Spending Time", with his glimpse into the costs of changing the start/end dates for DST (search for the phrase "crappy time" if you want to skip over the reasons I already mentioned -- or don't skip over it because he discusses it in much more detail and includes some relevant history). His back-of-a-napkin estimate is $10,000,000,000 spent just by folks maintaining systems that use Java, to deal with the change. Now that's some Daylight Spending!