Today is Bill of Rights Day.

petty pet (not to be confused with Dean's Petty Pets)
There are about a kazillion things I should really be doing, but instead, I followed Kate's lead and got myself a blogpet! The script is still under development, so there are still a million ways I wish it could be better--I wish the colors could be customized, for instance, and I wish I could have something other than a cat. Otherwise, though, it's fairly neat: it reads my blog and makes comments, greets my visitors, and tosses out the occasional joke (generally corny, but one can only demand so much of a talking cat). Scroll on down and give him a pat, why doncha?

The cat's name is Meowitz, by the way, in honor of a former brick-and-mortar pet whom my grand-aunt deliberately 'lost' in Paranaque. She was a terrible little calico who liked to make great slashes with her claws in all our window screens and furniture (um, Meowitz, not my grand-aunt).

Ella Enchanted?
Ella's blog has refused to load for days now, and I'm not sure why. Has Ella removed it? Is Blogger just acting up? Or has Ella been carried away by the wee folk, thus leaving my blog with that most irksome of things (to me, anyway), the dead link? Ella, are you still with us?