Very enjoyable weekend here. Friday night we didn’t really do much, except watch a movie.

Saturday we woke up to some pretty wet weather. It was raining really hard, and it was a nice site actually. The temperature has dropped a few degrees, and everything smelled fresh and looked a little cleaner. We relaxed around the house, drank coffe/tea, ate some breakfast, then vegged for a couple hours. I worked on a redesign for muddylaces here, and it was coming along pretty well, then I ran into a snag. Grrr. Sometimes CSS is stupid.

When it was time to get to work we loaded the dogs in the van (we were looking after Digger, and had K‘s van), organized some donatables, dropped the donatables off, then went on a nice dog walk at Elk Lake.

After the walk we came home, relaxed a little more, then got cleaned up to go out for a deck warming party.

This morning I went for a bike ride with some friends, and I really didn’t enjoy myself. Sue and I then tidied the house, then I worked some more on the redesign (still not done).

A little later today we need to do some grocery shopping, then we are going out to see a movie.

In all a pretty darn nice weekend!

I just had a very sad, and rather unpleasant experience. I went grocery shopping for dinner stuff tonight, and on my way to Thrifty’s, I decided to stop off and pick up a movie. After grabbing the movie Sue and I wanted to see, I noticed there was a water store in the same mall. We just got a new water cooler, but have no bottle for it, so I thought I would go check it out.

Here is where things get sad, and tragic. While walking there, I found a dead cat in the parking lot. Don’t read on if you don’t want details.

What to do. I felt horrible for the cat, well, kitten actually. It was very tiny, and quite obviously dead. Noone else around was paying any attention to it, and most people were just driving around it. This is a parking lot with a restaurant, a video store, and a pet store. Places kids frequent, so I couldn’t just leave it there.

I went to the pet store to see if they had anything to scoop it up with, and they provided me with a box, and came out to help. It was very sad. I don’t want to believe that someone did this on purpose, and I don’t want to believe that they knew they hit the kitten and left anyway.

I touched the kitten to see if it was still alive, but there was nothing. It was still warm though. Its little tongue was hanging out the side of its mouth. I got down to the grisly business of scooping it up (including some parts that should have been inside). Now that I had it in a box, I wasn;t sure what to do with it. There was no collar, no name, no phone number, just the little furry body.

I did the only thing I could do, and that was put it in a dumpster. That made me even more sad that I had to do that. I keep imagining some kid at home sad because their kitten hasn’t returned, and never knowing what has happened to it. I was that kid a long time ago, and I know how it feels*. I just wish there was some way I could get in touch with the owner. The pet store owner thanked me many times for doing that. She was also quite sad, and dismayed.

When I got home from shopping, after putting the groceries in the kitchen, I went upstairs, and gave Aphro a hug, and gently told her that she is never going outside again. Aprho does have a collar that we put on her when she goes out. I hope that if something ever happens to her, someone has the courtesy to call us.

* – my cat eventually did come home, but it was badly injured, and didn’t survive. She was missing for several days before she made it home.

New CD Tuesday today. I picked up the new Tea Party, the Wil disc, and a Pearl Jam double disc live acoustic compilation.

First impressions:

Tea Party – more straight up “rocky”, less of their exotic sound. this material will make for some good listening at their upcoming concert

Wil – solid disc. I like it a lot. Many of these songs were played at the concert the other night. His live performance is not to be missed.

Pearl Jam – I have only listened to one half of one disc so far, but it is also pretty good. Very nice background music. I am looking forward to listening to the rest of this performance.

Saturday Sue, Yoshi, and I headed over to Saltspring for a day trip. Some friends of ours were camping there for weekend, so we hooked up with them for a visit. We toured Ganges a little, checked in on the weekly market, ate Gelati, then had some dinner back at their campsite. We decided to get to the ferry early to ensure we got on, so while we were waiting we stopped at one of the coffee shops nearby, and happened to run into some other friends of Sue, so we visited them while we all waited for the feryy.

All in all it was a great day.

Pics are here.

We just got home from the Matt Good concert. I am beat and my back is killing me, so more on the concert later. Quick Summary: good show, with a great opening band (Will).

Hmmm, noticed something strange on the online version of my Mastercard bill last night. One of the charges is for $2 more than it should be.

Last week I stopped at a local pub to get some takeout for lunch. When I paid by Mastercard (since I had no cash), I signed the receipt, and wrote down the total. I was looking through receipts last night and noticed that the charge to my account for the lunch was $2 more than my copy. 😕

So, is it worth my time and effort to try and get it all sorted out with Mastercard?

Do I just let this one slide?

Is it my fault? The reason I think it might be is that my printing is horrible. Maybe the zero I wrote looked like a 2 so that is what was keyed in?

I dunno. I am inclined to let is slide and just say that the guy who took the order got a $2 tip. Part of me is suspicious that maybe he did that on purpose though. A big consideration is that I really hate spending a half hour on the phone with a big company to try and sort out a small error. Hmmm.