fenchurch | Cat Vandalism and Jazz

We finally finished painting the living room and yesterday started moving the furniture out of the huge pile in the middle of the room (where we'd had it all under plastic). We're still not sure where we're going to put the bookcases for staging, so

rackham stacked them on their sides, just to keep them out of the way. Of course, this created a horizontal surface... meaning it was quickly covered by odds and ends, including the basket where we'd been keeping the cat toys.

See all those sparkly balls? They were in the shallow basket sitting on the shelves. Near as we can tell, Numfar found them and batted them out, one at a time, just to see them fall... because it doesn't appear that she actually played with them after that (although she did manage to completely clear out the basket).

And in case anyone is curious, the Kiki thing is from the movie Kiki's Delivery Service (one of my favorite movies of all time)... it's a metal cut-out that Rackham had made for me for Christmas one year. It's usually hanging on the wall, but obviously had to come down so we could paint.

For lunch today, I drove down to Redmond to meet up with

rackham and

mekle... I needed to pick up a new mouse for my Surface at the company store and Rackham and I had some baby presents to hand off for Mekle and

textualdeviance that we thought they could use sooner rather than later. We grabbed lunch over at The Commons (which is sort of like a mall for Microsoft Employees with a HUGE food court) and got a pleasant surprise in the form of live music!

Look at those hep-cats...

Okay, maybe not hep-cats... but they were actually really quite good! My guess is that they're just a group of employees who get together and play for fun (there are LOTS of groups like that at Microsoft).

Crossposted from my Livejournal.