I believe all of this. I've owned many cats in my life. (We have three now.) The story about the cat celebrating is particularly resounding. What amazes me is when "scientists" observe animals behaving in sophisticated ways and wonder what's going on.

Enjoy your family... and the cats.

Bravo! This was great!

> I did about 100 VHS tapes a year or two ago. I still have a bunch more to do in the coming year.

May I ask, what are you using to do the conversion, hardware & software-wise? I've been planning for a couple years to start archiving my own collection of VHS and cassette tapes. But other things keep delaying me, so I'm now in the enviable position of being able to learn from everyone else. The idea of using PAR2, for example, never occurred to me. Good one. Thanks.