Ghosts in the machine [status, cats]
Mar. 18th, 2026 06:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterI've reached that stage of the semester where it feels like I do little else besides teaching and sleeping exhaustedly.
I generally don't use the living room for much, aside from sometimes playing with George or for sitting down in a chair momentarily while grinding coffee beans in the morning. On Monday morning, when I walked over to the living room, I noticed a new source of flashing light (ugh, video short so I can't embed):
https://youtube.com/shorts/wNbGotTv_wc?si=5Ot627re8zZF9cGX
That is one of the monitors inscrottie's office. He has been in California since November. It wasn't doing that the day before. Maybe the recent power outage caused this? Regardless, I dug out the key to his office door and went in to turn off this monitor again. The cats were briefly entertained by the opportunity to poke around in a space they haven't been in lately.
Speaking of possessed electronics, this darn document reader in the classroom where I teach REFUSES to behave.
https://youtube.com/shorts/XOfzN8CHTN4?si=KyggBAjMfkk1zSPB
I keep having to record videos of it because apparently our IT folks can't reproduce the issue. Their most recent hypothesis has been that something about the OS on my computer is causing interference when I have my computer plugged into the HDMI input. But in this instance, my computer is totally unplugged from the system. So.
A silver lining to my inability to function in the evenings is that George likes to come and snuggle. I've been putting on birdwatching videos for him, but decided last night to try out a cat documentary instead.
The cat documentary did manage to hold his attention for a good 20 minutes before he heard some noise and decided he needed to run off.
I generally don't use the living room for much, aside from sometimes playing with George or for sitting down in a chair momentarily while grinding coffee beans in the morning. On Monday morning, when I walked over to the living room, I noticed a new source of flashing light (ugh, video short so I can't embed):
https://youtube.com/shorts/wNbGotTv_wc?si=5Ot627re8zZF9cGX
That is one of the monitors in
scrottie's office. He has been in California since November. It wasn't doing that the day before. Maybe the recent power outage caused this? Regardless, I dug out the key to his office door and went in to turn off this monitor again. The cats were briefly entertained by the opportunity to poke around in a space they haven't been in lately.Speaking of possessed electronics, this darn document reader in the classroom where I teach REFUSES to behave.
https://youtube.com/shorts/XOfzN8CHTN4?si=KyggBAjMfkk1zSPB
I keep having to record videos of it because apparently our IT folks can't reproduce the issue. Their most recent hypothesis has been that something about the OS on my computer is causing interference when I have my computer plugged into the HDMI input. But in this instance, my computer is totally unplugged from the system. So.
A silver lining to my inability to function in the evenings is that George likes to come and snuggle. I've been putting on birdwatching videos for him, but decided last night to try out a cat documentary instead.
The cat documentary did manage to hold his attention for a good 20 minutes before he heard some noise and decided he needed to run off.
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