On the fly....

[captainsblog]

Yesterday's post didn't say very much about the couple of Big Annoyings going on. Some of them, I still can't, but I should at least update the two biggies.

Michelle, our middle-child cat, got out of the house in the wee hours of yesterday morning. Eleanor described her as our Kardassian Kat- beautiful, but with lots of issues.



That's her on the right, in one of her rare cuddlier moments.

It was a total team effort, her getting out. Somebody left the door open from the kitchen to the garage, and while I'm pretty sure that wasn't me, I was even more directly responsible for the escape by shooing her out of bed at 4 a.m. when she was starting her pre-feeding run-up.  I barely noticed her missing an hour or so later, until the fifth bowl was going unclaimed; I then saw the open door, called out a few times, and, pretty quickly, jumped to "acceptance."

We've done this drill with three other cats on a long-absent basis. We posted signs, biked all around the neighborhoods, checked the SPCA- and each time, the cat came home when he or she damn well pleased.  Sure enough, sometime in the early evening hours, Emily heard an unaccounted-for meow, and there she was, not a scratch on her, looking immensely like Ha ha, made ya look! By bedtime, she was back in charge of her queendom.

And when she got annoying in the wee hours of this past night, I threw her out again.  Because, as we know from our old animation video days, it's virtually a given that The Cat Came Back;)

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Yesterday's other distraction du jour continues unresolved at this hour:

A trauma surgeon at Erie County Medical Center suspected of luring his ex-girlfriend into a hospital stairwell before fatally shooting her multiple times at point-blank range remained at large late Wednesday.

A SWAT team had surrounded Dr. Timothy V. Jorden Jr.'s half-million-dollar Lake View home for nine hours before police completed their search and determined he was not there.

"He is not in the house," a police source said. "He is somewhere, and hopefully, we'll catch him."

The victim, Jackie Wisniewski, 33, a single mother from West Seneca who was looking forward to her son's pre-K graduation today, had confided to friends that Jorden had abused her and that he had been stalking her.

Just about everywhere we went yesterday, we heard stories of people who knew the victim, or had been in contact with her or the suspect. It sounds like dude just snapped- and having a weapons-trained Army veteran with a loose fuse out on the streets is not something giving much comfort at this point.

The search in question was done by a robot- a smart move, I think, given the significant chance of bad endings here.

Anything short of this, I'd make a crack about him just coming in on his own when he's hungry and bored. But I won't. #seewhatididthere