Mom ordered two refurbished laptops for herself and Grandma. She’s too cheap to buy them new. I suppose she’ll be looking to me to help her configure them and keep them running. The curse of being a tech-savvy cat!

If you want to know what a bad night really is, try having your picture snapped at random moments during the wee hours.

Katya tried to train my husband to be neater: “In my ongoing campaign to straighten these messy people out, I saved up and took a massive whizz on a pile of clothes Charlie left on the floor.”