I can has n00bs?

It's been a while since I (the solicitor) have made a posting.  Those of you who know arbie and I will know that for the past month and a half I've been living interstate, because the commute between Brisbane and my new job would be a little bit unmanageable, otherwise.  In another few months, arbie and our perma-cats will be moving down to join me - hopefully we'll have found a cat-friendly landlord by then!

What this means is that despite the fact that the n00bs are systematically destroying our house, and using arbie's legs as a scratching post (if she had haemophilia she'd probably be dead by now), I have never met the n00bs in person.  Not fair! I do however get periodic videoconferences with them on skype, and occasional photos emailed or MMS'ed to me.  The last videoconference was particularly memorable because the lot of them were tearing around arbie's office at Mach 3, and I could hear their galloping paws building to a crescendo, then they would go shooting past the camera and into the other room.

Insane kitten derby

They also tend to infest her desk and keyboard. We have discovered that Skype has some kind of in-built "cat-like typing" detector.  When you (or a kitten's backside) mash down a bunch of keys for a few seconds, both ends of the chat session display an animated cat pawing at something.

Desk infestation

Somtime - thankfully - they are more sedate and are content to hang around for snuggles and/or a nap.

I believe this is Grand Master Flash

I think this is Flash too.  It's hard to tell when I've never met them! :(

Storm getting some quality napping time, wrapped up in arbie's jumper.

I was on the telephone with arbie, on speaker, when Storm wandered over, listened to my voice for a while, and promptly went to sleep.  I hope it's because I have a soothing voice and not because I'm boring.

However, I will be returning to Brisbane next weekend.  I'm taking my camera with me, so that we can have a propper photo shoot with the n00bs and get some studio-quality photos of them, so when they're big enough to go back to the AWL they'll have their modelling portfolios ready to go!  I'll post these pics as soon as they're ready.

(Apologies for the quality of the above photos, most are screen grabs from Skype video calls so they're of inconsistant size and quality - the ISP that my housemates use down here sucks)