Cat Gas

Today I spent most of my day teaching high schools students in San Jose about careers. All of the students today were studying to go in the medical field, so I slanted my talk to medical careers. One thing we talk about is how our interests should be in line with our work. We talk about 6 different interest codes and today we looked at all the different occupations in the medical field and how the different interest codes can all have jobs in the medical field. Even the interest codes that deals with working with your hands and working out doors has a medical field, either EMT or a physical therapist. I had a good day at work until the afternoon when I was teaching math and I had to tell one guy that I didn't think he would be able to join the military because he would never be able to pass the test. I have never done that before, squashed someone's dream ... but I would rather tell him now then have him waste his time trying to do something that he will not be able to do. I gave him another road to his dream, so maybe that was good! I suggested he take college classes for a semester, get 15 units, and then apply again. I suggested he take a Math class.

My two cats keep me learning different things. Tonight I googled the strangest question, "do cats fart?". I know that they must, but I just wanted to see what I could find. What do you think the answer is? Well, this is the problem, I have 2 cats, and sometimes I am just sitting in my chair and one all of a sudden I smell what smells like cat poop. I used to spend 10 or 15 minutes looking for a "secret pile" that I figured the cats didn't make it to the litter box in time. I then realized that I could never find the pile, and the stench would only stya around for about 5 minutes before dissipating. I realized that the one cat, Simon, would be sitting on the cat thing near my chair and must be farting. It is a terrible smell that almost drives me out of the room. It happens every night, or maybe every other night. I would be so embarrassed if I was that cat. I hope he learns to leave the room when it happens, or maybe he comes in the room when he knows he is going to fart. Life has many lessons when you have cats! What's next?