kittens, baseball and movie trivia

[Joy M]

1. kittens

Dai's kitten sure is cute.  I planned on just taking a quick look at 
the OT-chatter message list to see what was being chattered about but 
then I got caught up in the kitten pictures and discussion.  My house 
would be knee-high in kittens if I had even slightly less self-
control.  I can't resist the cute little things.  The problem is, 
they grow up to be monsters, at least mine have.  My cat is a Death 
Eater, I am sure, and my two foster cats are pests.  But cute.  
However, I agree with the dog fan, too.  My dog is the sweetest, most 
loving, neurotic little thing and I know she loves me too, whereas 
the cats just tolerate me.  Barely.  If they ever learned to use the 
can opener, they'd probably slit my throat with their razor-sharp 
little claws.

2. baseball
Congrats to the Diamondback and Braves fans, but not to the Oakland 
fans because I am rooting for the Yankees.  Looks like a lost cause, 
though.  I am thinking of making an emergency appeal to the HP4GU-NY 
list, to see if anyone has any emergency spells (Slugging Spell?  
Pitching Potion?) for the Yankees (or hexes for the A's), since it 
looks like it will take magic for the Yankees to win it this year.

3. movie trivia
I was amused at this factoid (from the London Times article, I think):
Number of hand-tassled wand boxes created by the film makers for 
Ollivanders:16,500

--Joywitch, just passing thru