Miscellany, memories, and music.

Errands today. I'm on call this week, but only after-hours, so the luxury of a day where I'm not in the office but someone is and the after-hours doesn't apply is, well, luxurious. Finally got the rest of the things Dad had with him in the truck - they released the investigative lock last week. The library book went back to the library, the rest came with me. Then I stopped by their house to take care of things and had an amusing moment - as I was coming out the front door, I looked down and left. I hadn't, before, or if I had, I hadn't noticed - a pair of Dad's sunglasses lying atop the dirt, not too far from the porch, with old grass twined around them. Dad was forever losing (or breaking, sometimes due to losing and then sitting on) his sunglasses and kept numerous pairs for this reason. This pair was intact, and only slightly dusty. It made me cry - and laugh - and it felt a little like he was saying hi, in a way.

Then home. I also went in to get the taxes done - earlier in the day - but need to find a sheet of paper that went awol. (I needed to find two, but Scott turned up the other one for me.)

And musically, I'm in a state of gleeful anticipation. cadhla will have Stars Fall Home out, though it feels unreal until it happens; I'm looking forward to it. And I just learned that Suzanne Vega's next CD, Beauty and Crime, will be out in July - it's inspired by New York City, where she lives, according to the promotional mail from her site.

...pet food recall. They found WHAT?

Thanks to geordie for linking to this story at cnn.com about the Menu Foods pet food recall.

They found a rat poison called aminopterin in the affected food. I don't know which makes me feel more sick - the fact that there was rat poison in the food, or the fact that by the time the recall was first announced, Menu Foods hadn't been able to identify the tainting. For all I know it would be hard to spot, but it SEEMS like you should be able to catch something like that, even if that's just wishful thinking on my part.

Either way, I'm horrified by the fact that it happened. Those poor animals.