Surface glitches
We’ve got the surface for a while now and have written our first real application. It is based on BruTile and allows you to show various maps, zoom and pan. We created a short movie to show it:
Bastet still likes heights
Apparently falling down a few stories doesn’t scare a cat, or at least it doesn’t scare Bastet. Since spring is finally starting I’m sitting quite often in the evening in the sun at my balcony. Bastet loves to do the sun-back dance when she’s out. Her main task however is to check what’s happening down below.
If you look careful you can still make out the spot on her back where she was shaved. I’m wondering what will be fixed earlier: her hair or her back. Right now she still can’t jump but other then that she’s fine. She’s going to leave me this weekend because I’m off for a 5 week holiday. I hope to find her jumping about when I’m back 
My cat can’t fly
Sunday evening after cooking a dinner for friends my beloved lady friend, bastet, had disappeared. She is the master of hide and seek so at first I assumed she was hidden somewhere in my spacious loft. After searching all known and possible hiding places I figured she somehow had gotten out. I have a secluded courtyard which has multiple exits, but they all have doors. So I hoped she somehow escaped when my guests left and was hiding out in the courtyard.
Alas! I searched the courtyard two times that night and once the next morning but no sign of her. On Monday evening I planned a search and rescue mission together with the owner of the cat. While I was delayed she discovered Bastet outside the building hiding under the bushes. When we brought her up and let her loose again in my house she limped heavily and did not want to eat. So we brought her to the Vet the next morning and apparently she tried to fly and failed. Our guess is that she jumped out of the kitchen window at 20m above ground.
She has spliced her palate and broke her hip in a way that separated her hip from her spine. But according to the vet these are common injuries for non-flying cats and she should recover fine, although they’re going to operate here hip/spine problem. I just got word that she started eating again so the palate injury is healing very quickly. Tomorrow she’ll be operated and I hope to see her tomorrow evening.
Lazy lady
My borrow-cat Bastet is starting to feel at home here. She doesn’t hide under my bed anymore, which means I can close the door of my sleeping room again. She spends most of the time in the living room and my beautiful brown lounge couch is her favorite spot. As promised by her owner she does enjoy the company of people, well … just me, haven’t introduced her to others so far.
Here a nice portait of her in full ‘action’:
she talks to me!
When I arrived home today she was sitting on my couch and apparently was happy to see me, she started talking to me. But I guess it was mainly the food I provide which prompted her. Unlike previous times she wanted some attention, even after her food was in the bowl. So I’m making progress, however once she had had her dinner the living room was too scary so she retreated to the sleeping room. Maybe tomorrow.
On a different note; I’ve started to take photo’s again. My camera had been occupied for various longer and shorter timelapse and stop motion movies. But the beautiful weather made me go out and take black and white pictures of my city.
Lady friend
I’ve gotten myself a new lady friend, her name is bastet. She’s rather shy, she probably has been beaten before she was found and apparently it can take her up to two weeks before she really shows herself. Within a minute after arrival she found the empty spot behind the bookshelf and has been hiding there since. I’ve setup her litterbox and food/drink bowls right in front of it so she can find them if she decides to come out. I’ve set my camera to spy on her every half a minute so hopefully she will show herself before its memory runs out. If I’m lucky it’ll turn into a nice timelapse movie of a cat inspecting a new home. The current situation is like this, she hides behind the book which is standing in front of the shelf.
