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My cats use their paws as hands. Mephisto fishes pieces of dry food from the bowl, like a human fishing for popcorn while watching a movie.  Lucifer nudges me in the side when I am typing and ought to be rubbing his chin instead. Mephisto puts his paw on my shoulder, stands on his hind legs and pushes his little black nose in my face, purring. That mostly means he's brought me something to throw for him to play fetch with. Lucifer covers his eyes with his paws sometime when sleeping in daytime.-

But I have no S.A.D.!

A while ago, before I got my smartphone that does everything, I bought a Philips MP3 player because it was the most affordable brand name one that did everything I wanted and not MORE -- I didn't want one with video capability. I had to register the warranty with their web site for it to become valid, so I did.

Since then, they've been sending me emails with advertising for nice cool superfluous electronic products that I don't have the spare money for. But generally cool stuff, so I never felt the need to send them an email to tell them to stop, nor declare their messages spam so my Thunderbird would eat them.

Today, they sent me one for special full spectrum lights that would help me wake up in the darker mornings -- darker by an hour now, because we turned clocks back today. Good and sensible timing, especially for all the S.A.D. sufferers.

I, however, don't get that sort of winter blues. I love autumn and enjoy bright short winter days. Even if I had money to spare for cool superfluous electronics, I wouldn't want that one.

But I happen to have a fictional character in Milliways who does, and for whom affordability isn't the question. Now I just need a plotlet to get something like that to him...