fire alarm testing

One thing I will definitely not miss about living here is the regular fire alarm testing. The building office offered to give tenants earplugs, but I already have good earplugs, and the cats wouldn't wear them. There's not way to explain "it's only a test, don't worry, it will be over soon" to a cat. (I said it, but in a soothing tone and mostly because I wanted to be saying something other than "there, there.")

Nonetheless, despite that and Word hanging at one point, I got a bunch of paid work done. Now I am making brownies, from a mix, because Sandra Boynton tweeted that it is National Chocolate Cake Day (her feed is full of that sort of post, with good illustrations) and I decided that chocolate brownies are an instance of chocolate cake, and besides I like brownies and this way don't need to think about icing.