Anybody Want a Cat

This is Kitten's foot prints in fresh wet polyurethane. Any normal cat would have taken a couple of steps and gone "Ick!" and turned around. Kitten on the other hand, slip-slided her way all the way across the floor, right through the middle of the floor.
We forgot to mention the house's former residents stopped by a few weeks ago. He got into the house when we were closing up the chimney chase. He (or she, I suppose) probably crawled into the chimney from the top and we disturbed him with the heat. He came busting out into the family room and then moved on to orbiting the dining room for ten minutes until we succesfully created a multi-blanket screen to direct him out the front door.
Hopefully, he found a new warm place to hole up. We need all the healthy bats we can get here in New York.

Charts

Found a source for the historical personal savings rate from 1959 to current and it's pretty fascinating. CNN (etc) showed a very short term result from the past decade or so and it made me curious what that meant in a longer context. So you can figure it out yourself, here's the result in an ugly excel chart.
The source of the data is the U.S. Department of Commerce: Bureau of Economic Analysis for anyone interested in it. The national data as shown above is from here http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/Nipa-Frb.asp?Freq=Qtr, I haven't quite yet figured out how to extract more detailed data, aka regional/income based which is the more interesting question(s). Oh well, enough of a side-track for now.