this after i'd had a microsleep episode at work in which i'd seen tarot cards and startled back to my desk thinking of the 8 of coins.

but there isn't a 8P in a lenormand deck. heh.

cat is broken; send new cat

Was he trying to do a reading for you?

maybe! but, suspiciously, there is a pony bead missing from the end of the ties so i suspect he had other motives.

Can he open drawers?

apparently. this was behind a latched cabinet door.

it's been there for months, i don't know why he needed to play with it right now.

I had a cat once that could open doors. He would always run out any opened door, so we took to putting him in the bathroom when we brought in groceries. That worked until he learned how the doorknob worked.

pretty sure the lou knows how doorknobs work, but he's so far been unable to work them without thumbs.