Michael Braun's Blog

It seems that lately, I’ve been making some pretty snap decisions.

For example, I just went out and bought a Nikon D50 digital camera. I’ve been waiting to buy this camera for some time, so maybe snap isn’t quite the right word for the decision, but when I woke up this morning, I realized that it was time to buy a new camera. My old camera is having some trouble. There’s a bug in the camera’s software that causes an error when you try to take a picture after having zoomed in and using macro focus. I’ve been able to end the error in the past, but it seems to be persisting longer this time. And my bank account was flush with funds, so I said, let’s do it! Now, I’m just disappointed that things around my apartment aren’t lending themselves to my photographic eye.

But perhaps a good subject would be… my new cat! That’s right, after months of debating and trying to figure out if/how/when I should get a cat, I found out that my grandparents’ eldery neighbor was soon to be going into assisted living and needed to get rid of her 6 year old, female, non-shedding, declawed cat. I said, I’ll take her. I picked her up on the morning of the 26th. She was quite shy at first, hiding constantly. But she’s warmed up quite a bit over these past few days, though she has picked as her favorite sleeping spot a high up landing above my breakfast bar (expect photos later). It’s hard to get her down from there, so I can’t play with her as much as I’d like. My mom and company came over to my apartment on Thursday and scared the cat quite a bit. I was concerned that the cat was anti-social. But when Lauren came over a couple hours later, after we snagged the cat off the landing, she was quite friendly.

I don’t think I’ve made any other rash decisions, but two in a span of seven days is certainly enough. Now, you ask, why didn’t I write about that cat earlier? Well, I’ve been busy seeing family. I was in Milwaukee the 24th-26th. Then the evenings of the 26th and 27th I was at my grandparents’ house for Christmas there. Friday night, I was at their house again with my cousins and uncle. All in all, it’s reminded me how much I miss seeing my mom’s side of the family. I wish that we could all get together more like my dad’s side does.

It’s New Year’s Eve weekend this weekend, which means I have Monday off from work. I’ve got a New Year’s party to go to, hosted by my co-worker Mike. That should be a fun time. But other than that, I’m hoping to have a less busy weekend than the last several. It’s nice to actually have some time to write in here, without having to run all over the place.

Hope you all have a Happy New Year!