WotD: white noise

1. das weisse Rauschen
2. de witte ruis
3. el ruido blanco
4. el soroll blanc
5. le bruit blanc
6. y sŵn gwyn
7. an torann bán
8. 백색 소음 (白色 소음)
9. 白雜訊 báizáxùn

Notes: While searching for the German term, I came across the interest-piquing translation "pseudo-noise [tech.] das Pseudozufallsrauschen". "Pseudo-noise" here seems to be a shortening of "pseudo-random noise". If I were more ambitious, I'd hunt down translations for that.

Woo-hoo!

Carpenter returns to the mound tonight! Cubbies, you are going down!

Diagnosis: Batshit

At this point, you've all heard me burble on about the behaviour that sold us on this cat: We watched him dip his paw into a water dish and then lick it dry. Tonight he was doing the same thing again, but it was charming than simply bizarre, for two reasons:

1. The dish was completely empty.
2. It wasn't even a dish, it was a basket.

A basket where we keep onions, incidentally, so nothing which could even contain a trace of a scent that would be appealing to a cat.

Soon after, I saw him leaping around the kitchen trying to catch something invisible. But later I saw a fly above the counter, so the jury's still out on that one.