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Christopher Weeks wrote:I have three cats. My daughter named one Juniper. I named one Nukazuke. The other came to us from my dad with the name Orca.
Orca is a tuxedo cat with a fair amount of white, so guessing how my dad named him is a no-brainer.
When I was naming nukazuke, I came up with a list of names including solicitations from my wife and daughter. But it was my turn to pick, so it was my call, but I also didn't want anything they hated. We ended up using a spreadsheet for ranking and sum-of-squares to eliminate the ones without enough love. Which helped me take the list down from: Tangerine, Circe, Miso, Nukazuke, Eleven, Manticore, Wanda, Lady Mary, Shishito, Aardvark, Scarlet Witch, Kissa, KittyKorn to just: Tangerine, Circe, Miso, and Nukazuke. And then after a couple of days mulling it over, I chose Nukazuke. Kivi liked it OK and Cathy didn't particularly but has grown to love it. So that worked out.
Juniper was going to be Luna for quite a while but Kivi was eleven or something at the time and Cathy and I were making suggestions and at the last minute, Kivi took my suggested Juniper and that was that. Kivi has spent the last decade or so building up a notes document with possible cat names she's liked for her next shot.
And our next cat will be named by Cathy. She and I have very different tastes in naming, so I don't expect to love whatever she picks.
So it seems like people sometimes have a name independent of the animal's traits that they like -- maybe they read about the name or there's a character in a beloved book, play, or film they want to honor. And other times people wait to get to know the beast and see what fits. And there are a million variations on those general themes.
What do you do?
Nancy Reading wrote:I just heard of people that have set up battery power banks for the home although they don't generate their own electricity. In the UK at least you can have dual rate electricty, so you pay more at different times of day. By charging the battery bank at cheap rate and using it through the rest of the day, you can save a third or more of the cost of the electricity you use.
There is obviously an upfront cost, but what other down sides might there be? It seems that this would gve a certain amount of resiliance in power outages for example too!