esprit de l'escalier: Saturday yellow

Definition

[es-pree de less-ka/-iay] (idiom) A witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations defines esprit de l'escalier as, "An untranslatable phrase, the meaning of which is that one only thinks on one's way downstairs of the smart retort one might have made in the drawing room."

Saturday yellow

Yesterday I took Frank to the vet. If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen my tweets about it. I couldn't find our cat carrier and managed to lash together two laundry baskets to use as a very poor substitute. It was humiliating for the both of us. I need to buy a new carrier, because I think our 13 lb 1 oz friend is a little big for our old carrier anyway. El gato is *not* feeling himself today. He looks tired and under the weather, but yesterday evening he was feeling okay. Here's him and some yellow on our hill. I did not post yesterday because my netbook got some malware and I've been working on it to get it fixed (pain in my ass), so there will be a second post this evening.