I was cleaning the counter tops in the kitchen for mouse dropping, grumbling all the time and wondering if scat only referred to animals in the wild or if it also covered domestic ones, if mice can be considered domestic.
And all this thinking led me to check the word scat which led to scatology and then to muscerdae, Latin for mouse droppings.
So when I next grumble about cleaning the mouse dropping from the kitchen counters, I can instead grumble about cleaning muscerdae, so much more elegant.

Misquoting Oscar Wilde wildly I say
to loose one day is unfortunate
to loose two is irresponsible.

I was somehow convinced that to-day was Wednesday but as I do not have a set schedule, I had not thought too much about it till by chance I saw the calendar on the computer stating that is was not only not Wednesday, it was Saturday.
I had lost two days.
Now I have to rethink all my goals for the week since it is obviously almost over.
How did this happen ? This I cannot blame on the Republicans although I will give it a good try.
Ah well...
next week I will keep better track of the days
if I remember.

This morning I discovered that the water container on the kitchen counter had not sealed properly when I exchanged it and water had seeped and spilled all over the floor
and with exquisitely bad timing Carlos walked by with a dog on a string setting off the Worthless Ones in a frenzy of hysterical barking as I was looking at the mess.
Not, I thought, a very good way to start the day or the week.
On the other hand I thought, searching desperately for a silver lining, it can only be better from now on.
I hope.