Friday Night Lament: Fuzzball held hostage 6 by Fuzzball Hi…..kits and kittens…… Fuzzball is very sad right now…… I think mom likes my new friend Jack Rabbit better than she likes me. Sigh. Once we discovered he wasn't dead - you remember? - when he started doing that shaking and ear thing? Anyway, once we discovered that he was alive, mom took him away. And I don't get to see him much. Which probably isn't a bad thing since that ear jiggle really, REALLY gets on my nerves. But I'm still lonely.

Sigh.

I'm strong. I'm intelligent. I'm gorgeous. I'll be okay. But what does he have that I don't have? He has ears, I have ears. He's pink, I'm orange. He purrs, I purr. He sits in her lap…. Oh…. I wasn't supposed to mention that.

Never Mind.

Oh! Here comes mom! I can tell she's been reading Changeling books again because her eyes glaze over and she seems to develop asthma or something. She's stalking down the hallway muttering "batteries went dead, keep going and going my Aunt Matilda, must have batteries…"

NO! WHAT IS SHE DOING???? NO MOM, NO! She's taking the batteries out of my RoboMouse! No, no, a thousand times no! I beg of you, reconsider!!!!

She isn't listening! She feeds MY batteries to my new friend Jack Rabbit and then goes back to the computer room. My batteries. MINE! RoboMouse will never be the same.

You realize, of course, that this means war.