When I was a young man

When I was a young man my ambition was to sleep on a mattress on the floor and have a home full of easels and drawing tables.

Then my unplanned career came along, and I spent 25 years as a walking advertisement for mediocrity, consumerism and superficiality.

I would have been better off sticking with the original plan.

Now I'm a tired old dumpy grumpy consumer struggling to be something more by being less and not doing such a great job of it.

Prajna the cat has lately become very interested in attention from me. She is such a tiny critter... still the size of a kitten at age two and a half and light as a feather. She's the second-smallest of the cats behind Midget.