The Net Dog Blog

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. It's not that nothing has happened in the past week or so it's just that I haven't had the urge to write anything. Well, I don't want to let everyone down so I figured I'd just tell you what's been going on since I last blogged.Last Thursday, terrorists set off four bombs on our public transport system - three on trains and one on a bus, killing at least 55 people and injuring around 700. Fortunately Blake and I weren't on the trains at the time. Blake was in Paris and I was asleep. I guess there are benefits to being unemployed. There are still a couple train lines down but other than that minor inconvenience London seems to be back to normal. It's good to see that life does go on after tragedy.The closings on some of the train lines did affect me though. I decided to take a volunteer position to give me something to do. The position was with the gay and lesbian archives. I figured since I was a librarian with the Courier-Journal for 10 years this would be right up my alley. Well, I was supposed to show up Wednesday at 2 PM for my induction. I left at 12:30 figuring that I would have ample time to arrive at the site with a little time to spare. Three trains and a replacement bus later I arrived at almost 3 PM! Charity or not, that's just too long of a commute for anything so I don't think I'll be returning... at least not until the other lines are up and running.This week I discovered that Jake, one of my cats, has been sneaking out of our tiny flat through the only window we can open and sneaking back in the middle of the night. I've suspected that it has been going on for weeks but I finally caught him! You might wonder how I didn't notice him missing. Well, any of you with cats will know that they can be notorious hiders. I just thought that maybe he was hiding in the closet or something. The bad thing about this was that we have to vent our little air conditioning unit out a window. I was so afraid that we would only be able to run the AC at night with the cats locked out of the bedroom. Well, somebody once said that necessity is the mother of invention. I stuck a pillow in the window and that seems to keep our little Houdini safe inside.Well, that's about everything. I will make an effort to blog more often. I promise.