2009/06/22 Milo's New Computer

My computer has been having daily issues of late and it got to be a scary proposition as to whether it would turn on or not every day. Don picked out a new computer and we got it in the house 6/19/09. Milo is fascinated with all the boxes of course. Yesterday, he went to sleep in front of the new monitor so he now feels he owns it as he has sat patiently during all the installation of programs, teaching Linda new tricks on this new powerful Vista, and coming up with Excel spreadsheets to list all the things the humans thought they needed to do still on this new P.C. Man, this thing is powerful and it turns on when you want it to!!!!!!!!!! That is a really great thing to me after the last few weeks of babying one along to get it on. It has 640 Gigabytes of storage and 7 Gigabytes of memory (RAM). It also can burn DVDs and CDs and has a 15 in 1 memory card reader (For my pictures, it can read 15 different memory cards with the pictures on them that I want fed into the computer.) It also has Microsoft Office 7 on it for 60 days until I need to buy it. These products convert to older products at the click of a mouse!!! I just can't believe it. All the things I was afraid I would be without for a time are here in the here and now. I'm having such great fun with it and I think Milo likes it too as he has had an additional admirer around now for a few days. He loves Don (he thinks he might be related since his first addoptive mom was Don's daughter) and Milo is very loving to Don. So he is enjoying his time observing all the goings-on with setting up the P.C. No, we're not done yet but it is getting there pretty fast. The problem we ran into was that there is a receiver in the back that was supposed to be in the box to make the wireless keyboard and mouse work but this receiver was not there. We had to use an old wired keyboard and mouse to do the startup on the P.C. and we are being sent a whole new receiver, mouse and keyboard by the manufacturer. But it works just great using the wired items. I may like that better as I might lose anything not connected to the P. C. No telling what Milo can do with a mouse sitting without connection of any sort to anything.

Anyway, both Milo and I are having fun with this great new addition to the household.

2009/06/18

Milo didn't make it through much of the shower today. He preferred to watch the water from outside the shower stall. Maybe he was tired because Don and I kept him up too late last night working on the p.c.

2009/06/17 Where's the Water?

The paparazzi (me, his human mom) has finally succeeded in getting a picture of Milo eyeing the shower head. It took days and mainly all I needed was to have the camera at the ready in the bathroom so I could strike while the shower was getting hot so to speak. Of course I don't blast him with the water but he does like to observe the water coming out at the beginning. Just after this scene, he gets under the shower bench for a while and then he gets out of the shower stall altogether. He has no intention of getting soaked or anything. What a cutey. I don't know why this post is underlined at least in draft form. I'll have to investigate that later.

2009/06/10

I almost got a picture of Milo staring at the shower nozzle this week. He sat and stared at it for literally minutes day before yesterday and it would have been the perfect picture of his love of dripping water. But the instant I got in there with the camera ready, he bolted. I now have the camera laying on the cabinet in the bathroom in case I get another chance at a similar one. He has been really jealous of Grayson lately and I wish he would stop it as Grayson is getting old and arthritic and I feel sure Milo's attacks aren't doing him any good. I protect Gray when I am home but what happens when I am not.

The above pictures show Milo in "my" new office chair. He loves it as a bed - day or night. I am trying to wait for him to find another spot that he likes better but so far, he is very happy that I bought him this new bed. The other picture is of him waiting under the shower bench for me to come take my morning shower. It is a daily sight and if I can't find him for breakfast, this is normally where he is. What a cutie!!!

Milo also hit the master switch for the p.c. day before yesterday. He got gung ho about attacking the printer and cut everything off. He is a pistol when he has something in mind to do and he is so very fast, there is no stopping him. Don also put a new handset cord into the phone in the p.c. room and it is quite long. Milo thinks it is a snake or a new toy for him so he is now attacking that also. I have it up off the floor right now so I can have a little peace as I sit here typing.

By the way, Milo is into eating the cat grass now. He goes out every afternoon and munches on it. I told him I knew he would grow to love his salad and he has. I have replanted it into real pots that have a wider rim and we'll see if it fills the pot up. I can tell you it is certainly some tall stuff.