My cat had ran out when the door was open.

Lucky for me I was only figuring this out when Ashley came back from her classes, so it wasn’t as though she was going to freak out or anything (riiiiight).

For the next 5 hours or so, a lot of things seemed to happen all at once.

1. I didn’t get any work done for the rest of the day, pretty much. I spent most of the rest of the daylight hours (and a little bit of the night time) searching for Indie.
2. Ashley made the most of her time, mostly by sitting by the window, looking out, and being sad. Way to go.
3. Justin made up a few LOST CAT posters for me to slap up around the neighborhood. He even put a couple of them on white stakes for us to punch into the ground. I guess the front of my apartment just wasn’t white trash enough for Mr. Jones.
4. A couple of Indie’s belongings were placed out on the curb in order to help her find her way back. By the time night fell, it was her monkey (something she drags around all over the place) and a scarf of Ashley’s she likes to lay on, tied around the outside of the doorknob.
5. Finally, a call was placed to the local humane society, just to put a bug in their ear. Alas, the line was busy for over an hour, and we gave up on them. Time to adopt some newer technologies, maybe, humane society?

As the night came to a close, we were both finally able to get to sleep, with the mindset of getting up nice and early to go out looking for her again.

Around 3:30am the next morning (probably only a couple of hours before another search would have begun) a loud meowing sound came from the other side of the front door, and there stood Indie, hungry and tired.

Ashely gave her fresh food and water, and stayed up with her for a little while before collapsing again. Indie proceeded to sleep throughout the rest of the day (a little over 24 hours of napping, in total).

Oh, but there was one part of the day that she wasn’t able to sleep through. Her bath. See, something about being at ground level in an apartment complex gives a small animal the distinct smell of gasoline.

So Indie’s gift for for coming back to us after about 12 hours of being away? A nice bath, complete with humiliating pictures of her as a wet cat.

Turns out wet cat is also pretty hard to photograph well.

Turns out Ashley did a way better job getting a shot than me.

After a few hours of licking herself, she was ready to calm down. So we threw a towel in the dryer and wrapped her up in it. She liked that, and didn’t move for another few hours.

Yeah, I think she was pretty glad to be back.

Thanks to Justin, Dad, Hannah, and everyone else for the moral support!

Bacon Cheese Pizza Burger

Giant burger between two large meat pizzas, eggs, bacon, colby and pepper jack cheese.

Via Scott Andreas. Who knows where he found it.

Totally psyched Justin out on this one. And totally worth it!

Yeah, I’m a jerk.

Ray, a fellow classmate of Obama’s, was also bi-racial, and also trying to define himself. But what set him apart was his colorful manner of self-expression. Ray cursed like a motherfucker.

This would all be snickerworthy enough, but it turns out that Obama actually read the audiobook version of Dreams From My Father.

And that means he read Ray’s quotes.

Who doesn’t want to hear their president cursing? Check it out on April’s blog.

• ThinkFold is an app for collaborating on outlines. It may sound strange, but take a look at the demo videos and you may like what you see. Currently in beta.
• Small Farm Central isn’t exactly a site I could use, being the city boy that I am, but I do like the idea. The creator wants to provide a place for small farmers to have a quality place on the web. On the aesthetic side, I really like the red pattern background of the site.
• Design Deadline describes itself as monthly CSS Reboot minus the suck. While I do hate the term deadline, I signed up and added this site to the collection. I look forward to having a publicly viewable deadline to update the design here every month.

Some of the prizes that drew my interest, especially:

• The marketing plan from Dosh Dosh – It would be perfect for a new project I’m working on.
• Signed copy of Blogging Tips from Lorelle
• $60 in books at Amazon from Darren Rowse. Who doesn’t like books?
• USB podcasting kit being donated by Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog
• The books designed and produced by david the designer. Did I mention I like books?
• Brand Aid, a book on branding and design
• Lifetime membership to whatever Andy Beard is making. He’s cool, I look forward to it. Whatever it is.

Not that I want you to, really, but head on over to the contest page and get yourself in the runnings for a piece of the bootey.