Cats

Ernie (full name: Most Perfect Princess Ernestine, our tribute to some Filipina-style names), left, and Fat Choy (from the Chinese New Year greeting Gung Hei Fat Choy), have settled in quite well and seem to be content in calling our home their home.


Fat Choy is demonstrating her good taste in using my Mac PowerBook as a pillow, while Ernie shows off her smarts by napping on a copy of the Internal Revenue Service Publication 17. That's some great reading, let me tell you.

Ernie and Fat Choy have at least one person who sympathizes with them in our odd choice of names. Shelly's mom recently wrote "what horrid names for little girls!" in an e-mail to us. I can't argue with her; in fact, that's probably some of the appeal of their names.