Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 06, 2025

Smart as it is, the brain often doesn’t know when to start shutting down.

I just don’t know how anyone can stand to do that sort of research on their phone. Screen’s too small. That’s a computer search or nothing.

That “hyperfocus” is almost always followed by a Wile E. Coyote level crash. It’s a long way down from 2am.

It helps that you’ll be in the office, the next day, for an eight-hour nap!

They’ll both be zombies in the morning. Put those flamin’ things down and go to sleep! Geez, worse then Ora Zella…

The Carrington Event was a massive solar storm in 1859. I searched it so you wouldn’t have to. And don’t look up the Mt Everest mummies. Gross.

Woo! Carrington Event!

I looked it up.

At 2AM I’m about half way through reading my strips on GoComics.

What’s wrong with bookstore woman’s face? She looks as if she’s wearing a hockey mask.

Oh, yes, the mummies who were the hikers who perished trying to make it to the summit. Many of them died from not just from hypothermia, but from hypoxia. Some of the mummies are decades old and have become mile markers and landmarks along the path. It’s not that people don’t care enough to bring the bodies back. It’s just that the conditions are so brutal that the climbers don’t have the strength so spare to haul them back down the mountain.

OT: Thunder Ice

The best way to get someone to look something up is to tell them not to look something up.

That being said, I think I already know what to expect from “Everest mummies” so I think I’ll spare myself the nightmare fuel. But the Carrington Event sounds interesting!

OT, last pneumonia update

I remember researching the Carrington event while writing Amrytis. Very interesting stuff!

I went down a rabbit hole of local metalcore bands at 4am this morning. I had to wake up at 9.

What is wrong with these People?

2AM is also cat sports events time. What cha waitings for?

I wish REAL kitties could have purple ears !!! (They go beautifully with the purple jams)

At 2AM I don’t exist. Melatonin for the win!

I can conceive of 2:00 a.m.; I just don’t have any personal knowledge of it.

This is why I don’t take my cell phone to bed.

If I am awake at 2 am I am having a bad night.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the oPyramid Library

Beatrixia: Yes, here is a copy of the Voyage Scroll. How did you come to hear about it, Iggy?

Iggy: It’s a popular topic among us seafarers. According to legend, it first was found in the Uttermost West.

Bea: That’s near the Elven Realm. I wonder if it could have been written in Tengwar Script.

Iggy: Maybe we can write to Fe-Anaro and his sons. I know Elvis keeps in touch with Mag-Lor.

Bea: Let’s go ask.

At Elvis’ Office

Elvis-Anum: Yes, some of the script does look familiar, but I’m not sure of what the words are. My scribe apprentices Tira and Akil are working on making a copy of the scroll.

Tira: It’s fun doing all this writing and drawing.

Iggy: If it’s in code, maybe I can help to decipher it.

Bea: It’s worth a try. And when Ebonee and Hapi get the printing press set up, we can make many copies. I’d like to give the first copy to Beaver Lee Cleary for the Afar library.

Iggy: Looks like a mystery is about to be solved.

Bea: But first, tea and scones!

The creepiest things I’ve seen are the bog bodies in the National Museum of Ireland. Twice.

Narrator: DON’T LOOK THAT UP.

Me: Already heading over to Google. It has to happen.

It’s 2 am. Isn’t it time for the running of the cats?

I have my yearly evaluation in 5 minutes and I didn’t turn my lights off until after 3 a.m. stupid brain

The mysteries of the universe appeal to the people in the early hours. Its an scientific fact

The woman is addicted to her phone. Someone needs to intervene and get her into Cellphones Anonymous.

The 2 AM running of the cats is matched only by the 2 AM scrolling of the phone. The former burns off energy; the latter burns off brain cells.

Once again I can recommend The Morbid Curiosity Podcast for those who don’t want to take Bert’s advice. It’s a sympathetic, factual look at those who never made it off the mountain. mcpod (dot) libsyn (dot) com/death-on-mt-everest

Like Bookstore Woman, I too close one eye to look at my phone in the wee hours.

The Woman just needs to concentrate on Puck’s white floof patch and let herself drift … off … to ..sleeeeee…

I’ll take regular mummies over Everest mummies any day. Far less disturbing.

When auroras were seen in the Caribbean!

OT – It’s broken

Green Boots (Tsewang Paljor ) was finally taken off the mountain a couple years ago.

I get this. I invented a whole category of activities for when I can’t sleep. It probably wasn’t the best idea.

I do this sometimes, stay up until 1am reading under my covers.

If I’m up that late, I go for animal, music, and baking videos. Research is for the daytime.

Wait! Did she figure out who killed Lizzie Borden’s parents?

Well, that is creepy if you look it up…

I had to look up the Carrington Event. The search engine precis was enough depth for me. If there were pictures it would have been more fun. Well, there were artists’ representations.

I have always wondered at the human desire to solve or investigate the macabre. Is it because we like solving puzzles, or are we ghouls?

Robin, what’s your opinion?

Don’t worry, cats, I will NOT look that up.