Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 28, 2024

Someone left a klieg light on…

I’m back. Very little pain involved despite having two implants done. But now I’m on a soft diet for the next couple months. After he did the first implant, I begged him to do the second one just to get it over with. Ah, well. Beggers can’t be chewsers…

“No doubt.” Well, let’s hope there’s “no doubt.”

I’m sure there is no other possibility.

No doubt.

Or the Northern Roombas.

Sean Bell adds: " I think [monitoring solar flares] is normally done with visual solar flare telescopes, and satellites positioned above the Van Allen Belts (having I don’t know what type of instruments). * For Burt to be able to use a hand held meter, I’m guessing the flare would approach the size of The Carrington Event – ‘…the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking on 1–2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10.’ (look up Carrington Event on Wikipedia)"

No doubt Pucky. Unless….. it’s something a bit more alien to the area, so to speak.

O.T. – FLOOD DANGER

Kittens should be in bed at this time of n… Who am I kidding?

Ketchikan, Alaska, where I lived for many years, was too far south to see northern lights most of the time. There was one time when the lights were so energetic I stayed up til the wee hours of the morning watching, enthralled.

Gorgeous!

I’ve seen the aurora in Rochester, MN, and Durham, NC. That last was energetic to be seen so far south.

The kits aren’t the least bit afraid.

Aurora…

Isn’t that an Oldsmobile?

Of coarse OZ thinks it’s cool! Everyone knows that, green, is the color of kaos! (or an alien, invasion…)

I say, Professor. I do believe we are doomed.

Okay, now the synchronicity is going off the charts. Imagine if we didn’t have the preview? When she sent these strips in, Georgia had no way to know an unusually violent X-flare/CME would cause a dramatic aurora display that could be viewed during the very recent extra super full-moon, all the way down to Iowa. My spouse missed the spoiler, so it is fun to watch somebody reading it cold… no clue, just assuming everything is “normal”, well except for that bit of glitching………………..

Green light in the skies is could also means little green pesky aliens from outer space ya knows. When they is can makes green crop circles on earth they is can makes green patterns in skies also.

O.T.

Lucky kitties! it seems everyone has seen them but me!!!❤️

That does look very pretty, but it also definitely has spooky potential.

Really like their jammies.

OT:

Definitely the northern lights. What else could it be?

There’s too much light pollution where I live for me to see the Northern lights. Besides, they come out after my bedtime.

Rad!!!

Thus it is as the kitten has stated “Rad”!

Every time there’s some fantastic event in the sky, like an eclipse, meteor showers, auroras, or whatever, the clouds roll in and I can’t see them. (The events. I can’t see the events. All I can see is the clouds. Stupid clouds! I’m gonna go yell at them.)

Well that, or some d@mn kids out in the woods on the edge of town didn’t properly care for their camp fire and now we are segueing into a new story line, full of mystery, full of danger and full of goofy cats.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Royal Stables

Beatrixia: Thanks for giving us a lift to Afar, Kara. We really appreciate it.

Kara: You’re welcome. It’s always nice to take a trip to learn more. It’s what we camels do.

Bea: Have you heard anything about the Portentous Wind? Do camels have any legends about it?

Kara: We all learn to expect the unexpected. Mainly we just keep calm and remember Hump Day always comes around. It also helps to have a scholar and a warrior mouse along.

Violet-Ifa: Knowledge is power.

Ta-Natash: So is knowledge of martial arts.

At the Midnight Oasis

Bea: We can bed down for the night here, then go for breakfast at Floofnet’s Ceiling Can Be a Floor Culinary School.

Irving Berlin: Blue Skies

Night sky, shining on me

Nothing but green sky do I see

Night sky shine on each one

Beautiful night sky

By Georgia Dunn

Something will happen but it will all be well

After some adventure that no one can tell

What’s gonna happen remains to be seen

A story’s coming for Halloween

Night sky, shining on me

Nothing but green sky do I see

Night sky shine on each one

Beautiful night sky

By Georgia Dunn

OT: Adoption day…

OMC, it looks stunning! I’ve never gotten a chance to see the northern lights.

Hmmmm… I still think Burt was checking Elvis… More importantly all of us in the science and technical world, we need to remember that this “EMF” (what Burt and the Boy are metering) ‘is electromagnetic field’, but EMF is also used for ‘electromotive force’ which is a measure of potential energy and therefore shares the unit “Volt” with voltage which is also a measure of potential energy. Presented without context, this can be confusing, especially in text. For clarity and brevity I will only mention in passing the 3rd use of ‘EMF’ on beach signs, meaning “extremely mean fish”.

I’ve seen the Aurora only once. I’d love to live where it was visible regularly except that all those places have real winter. I shoveled snow and got minor frostbite when my family lived in Illinois for 6 years. I was very relieved when we moved back to the Bay Area.

They’ve arrived – my 2 long sleeve T-shirts from Threadless!

Killer Roombas in Deep Blue, and Iggy as the Paper Vampire in Red. Beautiful artwork, Georgia.

OT – Adoption Day Surprise

Some good news among the bad—my Killer Roombas shirt arrived today!

I bet inside those alien Roombas there’s a tiny Lil’ alien! Sort of like Dalek Dust Busters! Only they shout SANITIZE! SANITIZE! SANITIZE!

Using an EMF meter to check for ghosts is a fraud borrowed from unscrupulous window replacement vendors. They will take a light meter, suitably relabeled as a “heat loss meter” and “find” heat loss near your windows (where it is brighter).

A sensitive EMF meter set to its highest gain will almost always find stray electric fields in our modern environment.

What is the white spot that sometimes appears above Puck’s mouth?