Our friend Bonnie took care of Kiwi the surviving twin cat sister when Lorena and I went on vacation and trips last week. When we returned, Kiwi was not happy. This picture shows the concept. After dinner last night, I was sitting at the table reading a book on my new Pixel 2 XL phone. Kiwi likes to get close and crawls into whichever spot she can find to be close. She lightly extends her claws to make sure I am not going away. When I am at my office chair working, she repeatedly attempts to get my attention by standing on her hind legs and touching my arm with her paws until I pick her up or run her away. Even when I run her away, she tries again within a few minutes. I have had to lock her out to get any work done. Slowly, she is starting to calm down and sleep in the sun by the window, but I think it will take a couple more weeks to get her back to normal.
Day: May 11, 2018
Over the last couple of days, I had a couple of long and interesting talks with my old friend, Troy, with whom I worked on the GaugeCam project when we lived in North Carolina. Troy is an Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska right now with lots of interesting research going on. We discussed the idea of me reengaging on some of his research again when I started to approach retirement. Well, retirement is rapidly approaching and it looks like the stars might be starting to align. This is still just wishful thinking, but we have talked about a few specific ideas and I even called and talked to my old Masters degree professor, Carroll Johnson long retired from University of Texas at El Paso. We have hope we can make something happen. If this idea comes to fruition, I hope to be writing about it here on a semi-regular basis.