The good, the bad, and the ugly

The good: Gurglepurr does not have FeLV or FIV! Labs look great.

The bad: Most of his teeth are rotten. Except the canines and incisors. Ugh.

The ugly: We're going to have all of those out except the healthy ones, since it seems stupid to temporarily leave him with half a mouth of rotting teeth and we'd just have to pay for all the surgery stuff a second time. This isn't going to be cheap. Ouch. Thank God for all the gigs...

We saw some excitement last night driving home. Somewhere past 105th on Hwy 99 going up through north Seattle, we happened to see flashing lights on a pickup on the other side of the road. I thought that was a little weird, and mentioned that I didn't know the cops had pickups. I knew about the SUVs and the regular stuff, of course, but this was new.

We thought perhaps it was just waiting there after a routine traffic stop until we got a little bit further up and noticed there was an entire barricade of 4-5 cop cars blocking the southbound lanes of 99. Wow, this looked intense. There was a car stopped south of the barricade, and a guy was getting out of it with his hands up. He was wearing a long black trench coat, according to Patrick, who had time to stare at the situation.

I didn't see where the cops were at first because it was dark and I was trying not to run off the road, but then it dawned on me that all the car doors were open, and I looked behind the doors. Sure enough, there were about 10 cops, all with guns drawn and trained on this guy, standing behind the open car doors.

We proceeded on, and didn't see anything more, but I wonder what this was all about. Aurora is known for drugs and prostitution, but no one ever gets this riled up about hookers, so maybe it was drugs. I don't see anything about it on the news anywhere yet, but maybe it will turn up at some point. It was pretty impressive.