34 thoughts on “One more for the floor, barkeep. . .”

  1. Ain’t that the truth!

    Our cats used to pull over any glass left unguarded. Once they had their own tall glass of water (to drink from) they stopped doing it. Funny. They (well, now just one) didn’t pull over their glass (once they had it), they just drank from it.

    1. Same here. Our cats each have a water bowl by their food, but will only drink from their 93′ Bulls Championship mug on the coffee table.

  2. My thought was not so much about the cat as the funny title – one more for the floor, verses one more for the road.

  3. Our current furry mistress has worked tirelessly to train us to not leave any glasses with any liquied in them sitting around.

    We are pretty good about not leaving them about anymore, but we still slip up every now and then.

    We will be replacing the flooring in the main part of the house sometime soon, and there will be NO carpet.

    2. Hi darrelle, We put down a (large, stable) glass of water at our cats’ feeding/watering spot and keep it full of water. That cured them of going after our glasses (completely).

      Who knew? My wife figured this out.

      1. A tip for a tip.

        If one’s goal is to reduce/eliminate jumping on kitchen counters … always perform necessary evils (medications, nail trimming, etc.) on the same counter you want feline free.

        This is my first ever comment about a cat subject on WEIT, so I apologize if this is common knowledge.

        Mike

      2. We have tried giving her her own glass, but it doesn’t work with her. She is one of those cats that eschews anything that you give her. She wants your stuff! And if the water level is too high, she isn’t interested.

        I swear to d*g, she is just messing with us.

        1. What about flavoring the water?

          I add 50 ml of water to Baihu’s bowl for each of his three daily meals. If it’s just water, he eats the food and only as much water as he might ingest with the eating. If I add a very small spoonful of Trader Joe’s Tuna for Cats with the water, he licks the bowl dry. Today or this weekend, I’m going to experiment with making dashi as a substitute for the tuna water.

          b&

          1. We always give the water from our tuna cans to our beasts. He (it was they until recently) comes running when he hears the can opener come out of the drawer — no matter where he is in the house. Amazing hearing!

    3. When I bought my new home, it was the archetypal “fixer-upper” that everybody wished somebody would do something about — broken window in front, ghetto chainlink fence, the refrigerator a Superfund site, and so on.

      I got the keys late on a Friday afternoon. By noon the following Saturday, with lots of help from Mom and Dad, there wasn’t a shred of carpet left inside.

      …and OY! did that shit stink as it came up.

      I haven’t even felt the urge to get any rugs, save for the bathroom.

      b&

      1. I’ve “discovered” beautiful oak floors hiding under carpet in two consecutive fixer-uppers. I’ll never understand Carpet People.

        1. In the 1970s, most of the nice hardwood floors done in the 1950s, 1940s, and earlier disappeared under shag carpeting. Everyone was doing it. It was the new, cool thing. (And who ever thought of shag carpeting in the first place; yeesh!)

          Fortunately, almost all of it is gone now.

          1. It’s funny that what was thought to be uber cool in the 70s is so gauche now. Bell bottom jeans/pants; sideburns; long hair parted down the middle; wide lapels; hip hugging waistlines; high soled shoes; mustaches. What am I missing? The music was the best ever made . . . well, I qualify that by categorizing the ‘rock’ music was the best ever. Disco was horrible, although I’d trade it for rap.

          2. The ’70s was when automotive design turned to shit. It hit its stride in the ’50s and roared through the ’60s…and came crashing to an halt in the early ’70s and hasn’t recovered since.

            Some exotics have done well, and there’s been an half-hearted attempt at some revival styles…but, overwhelmingly, cars either look like worn bars of soap or overinflated worn bars of soap. I’ve pulled up to an intersection and seen three nearly-identical cars lined up side-by-side in each lane…with three different badges from three different automakers from three different continents on each. Hell, I’ve seen a Mustang parked next to an Honda Accord and had to look for the logos to tell which was which….

            And, yes. Lots of cupholders and airbags in the new cars. Frabjous day. But can’t they be even a little bit adventurous with the styling? I mean, would it be too much to ask for the newest Cadillac to have some tailfins, or a Chevy pickup that actually looks like it belongs on a farm, or a Mustang for which the term, “badass,” was once again the first word that came to mind?

            b&

          3. I’ve always been a fan of function first, form second, but in both cases the 70s signaled the end of American dominance in automotive quality. I have no idea if it’s recovering because I trust neither GM, Ford, nor MOPAR enough to purchase their products. But, you are right, everyone is making the same bar of Ivory to supposedly slip through the wind.

          4. There’s certainly a lot to be said for the dominance of form over function…but that still leaves all sorts of room left over for freedom of form. Just look at all the exotic cars out there, so many of which represent the apex of function and manage to not look like soap bars in the process.

            Plus, there’s nothing at all worng with sacrificing a few percent of efficiency here and there for the sake of style. For example, I bet there’s an automotive engineer at Cadillac who would have no trouble adding fins back to something in their current lineup and not only not sacrifice performance but possibly even enhance it.

            b&

          5. Even at the time everyone knew shag=pile was a terrible idea, but they did it anyway.

      2. We are thinking of some combination of dark wood and light stone. Haven’t got any further planning than that yet. But, yeah, I am tired of carpet.

        We actually kept our carpet very nice, until we had kids. It went straight down hill so fast at that point that I am still sort of stunned by it. Makes me want to call my mother and apologize right now.

        1. That’s actually what I sorta wound up with. There was already cheap tile leading from the entrance to the kitchen and bathroom, a very light off-white with the exact same reddish marble-ish pattern silkscreened on every tile. I left that in place, and added fake rosewood laminate in the living room, real cork in the bedrooms, and fake oak laminate in the office and studio.

          …though, to be fair, I still haven’t finished all the baseboards and similar edging, and the hallway and a couple closets remain bare concrete. Ran out of time at the time and have had more important things to do since….

          b&

      3. We had the same thing at our (humble) vacation place.

        Luckily, the subflooring was sound and all we needed to do was seal it with Kilz.

        Gallons and gallons of Kilz (in Carl Sagan’s voice … ) and gallons … and gallons …

      4. “I haven’t even felt the urge to get any rugs, save for the bathroom.”

        Ben, do you (and Baihu) live alone?

        What I have always found is that hard floors with no rugs are just waaaaaaay to rackety (noisy) for me. I have to tamp that down with rugs. (My previous home was all hardwood except the kitchen and bathroom. Loved the hardwood — needed the rugs.)

        1. I think “area” rugs here and there on hard floors would be fine. Much easier to clean in case of disaster, or even replace, compared to carpet.

          An area rug I would like to have once I change my floors, round with a soft leather border with a field made up of checkerboard like squares of hair-on cow hide with the hair oriented in alternate directions. I saw it a couple of years ago and put it on my “things worth considering” list. It has to be seen to be appreciated. The verbal description doesn’t do it justice.

          4. This is the only picture I have that shows the rug at all. It doesn’t show it well, but maybe it will give you an idea.

            A few years ago I dabbled in the world of fine art for awhile. Doing installs for museums and private collectors. The rug was in a condo where I installed a private collection. For some reason I didn’t take a picture of the damn carpet.

          5. Well, I have an idea why you didn’t take a pic of the carpet…

            😀

            That does look much more intriguing than I’d imagined it. Thanks!

  4. One of my cats is usually very careful when it comes to knocking stuff over. He’s pretty sure-footed for a young guy.

    …except when it cones to mint. He loves mint so much that he’ll eat toothpaste. Once we rushed him to the vent because he went into my girlfriend’s purse at night and ate all her gum (wrappers included). The one time he ever tried to intentionally push a glass off a table was when I was having a mint tea. His little paw shot up over the side of the table and he tried to *pull* it down.

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