Life with Max
Max is our cat. He's been with us now for more than a month; regular readers will recall that we adopted him from a shelter. He's a maine coon, our favorite breed, and he's a very sweet cat, though he's starting to exhibit some very peculiar behavior.
Last Wednesday night I went down to my office in the basement, as I always do, to do my guest host spot on Your Mac Life. Since the iSight came out I've kept my camera on while I'm doing the show so people can look at my face while I'm talking. Somehow, Max got into my office while I was doing the show. That's when the fun started.
Max is a big cat -- better than 14 pounds now -- and he's not very dainty or graceful. I have about thirty feet of countertop built into the walls of my office for my computer equipment, and it's stacked with boxes, papers and computer peripherals. As I'm chatting with Brian Greenstone from Pangea Software about Nanosaur 2: Hatchling, I hear Max exploring my office.
It sounds like this:
*shudder* *shuffle* MROW *bump* *SLAM* MROOW *thud* *shuffle* MROW *scamper* *bang* MROWWW
I'm desperately trying not to show any distraction as Max is jumping up and down off the counters, knocking off boxes, peripherals, documentation and manuals, jumping back down to the floor and going up to rub a veritable Leaning Tower of Pisa recreated by abandoned FedEx and UPS container boxes that lies in one corner of my office, knocking them all to the floor in a heap.
Then Max decides he's had enough of this hell-hole and walks to the door. The door is a crack open -- if he'd just pushed it with his huge head, he could have easily opened it enough to walk through. But this isn't enough -- he wants me to do it. In fact, he wants me to come up stairs.
So for the remainder of the Webcast -- about seven minutes -- I'm hearing Max in the back of my office, yelling MROW MROW MROW in a continuous wail like a kitty car alarm.
Comments
Brad and I listened to the interview and couldn't hear anything cat related. I was kinda hoping for some crashing and serious MROWing. ;-)
Posted by: lyssa | March 21, 2004 10:41 AM