Some people celebrate by shopping for themselves. I shop for my cats.
This weekend I’ll be learning JavaScript, in preparation for the new gig (which starts a week from Monday). Today, it’s raining: no thunder, no hail, just rain…and plenty of it. The A/C installation is doing just fine, no rain leaking around the edges. I went and got myself some breakfast, then stopped and got flea goop and a soft cat bed. Lately, Fog’s been passive-aggressively pushing Ursa out of all his favorite sleeping and sitting spots and appropriating them for herself. I decided to get Ursa a soft cat bed so that he’d have someplace warm, soft, and fluffy. 
He loved it, climbed right in and investigated it the moment I got home and put it down on the floor.
Ten minutes later, I heard squalling and saw Fog engaged in her first takeover…and Ursa protesting vocally. It wasn’t doing much good, as a) possession is nine-tenths of the law; b) Fog was sitting in the cat bed; and 3) Ursa’s a bit too easygoing to really do anything to get Fog out of his bed, anyway. I scolded Fog (which had about as much effect as you’d expect), lifted her out of the cat bed, and carried her into the bedroom and set her on the bed. I puttered around, made my coffee, cleaned up the kitchen, turned on the heat, and saw a black cat sitting serenely in the cat bed. Since I hadn’t heard any complaints, I assumed that Ursa had maintained the cat-bed seat.
No…not precisely. Fog had usurped Ursa’s place once again; and Ursa had headed off to sit on the bed (where, for once, he wouldn’t be moved.)
I picked up Ursa, startled Fog out of the cat bed, and moved the bed over near the floor heater. Then I set Fog down near it. He now had a warm, soft, fluffy place to sleep that was near the heater. (I figured he’d fight for that. This past winter I often found him sitting as close as he possibly could to the floor heaters. A few times, I was worried that he’d burn his skin. He’s feeling the cold a bit more, now that he’s nearing a decade.) It’s been twenty minutes and…well, see for yourself:
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