I spent the afternoon with Keefe sleeping on my legs as I lay stretched out on the sofa watching TV. Meowza and Bazel were sacked out on the cushions.

Later, I got up for a bit and, when I sat down, no TV this time to distract me, Meowza came up to me so I laid back and he lay on me. Now, normally he gets a little love then happily goes off to lay elsewhere but today, he lay on me for the longest time purring away.

Keefe came back and took his spot on my legs. The petting and purring continued. I was getting sleepy.

Then Bazel decided to get up on me. Finding no room at the top, Meowza had filled that, he went down by my ankles and lay on me there. He nipped at my socks, think it was love bites cause he didn’t draw blood. Either that or he just likes to chew. He settled in after that and just lay there.

After a while, Meowza and Keefe bailed leaving Bazel who wasn’t budging from his spot on my legs. Finally, I had to bail on Bazel as I was way too hot. Three kitties on me for the better part of an hour makes for a hot human.

I let them out after that, that was the tricky part as Cece was right there at the door wanting in. Didn’t get in thou. I’m getting better at this.

Well, any plan that involves mortgages can’t be all good. The government picking up anything mortgage related will stick it to the taxpayers in the eventually the debt sours. Stocks are back down after yesterday’s rally. No surprise there.

Wall Street’s euphoria over a $200 billion plan from the Federal Reserve turned to caution Wednesday, leading stocks to retreat a day after their biggest rally in more than five years.

Investors largely regard the plan the Fed announced Tuesday to lend Treasurys in exchange for debt tied to mortgages as an innovative means of bringing some relief to the tight credit markets.

…According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 46.57, or 0.38 percent, to 12,110.24. It initially dipped, shot up more than 140 points, then dropped again. On Tuesday, the Dow surged 416 points, the blue chips’ biggest one-day point gain since 2002.

OK, not so good, course even with Tuesday’s big gain, stocks are down about 2000 points over their long term high. Not much change compared to a week ago even. And even more gloomy data will be released later in the week so expect stocks to not go up.

Why do I write about the economy so much? Simple, I expect it to tank and tank big. Wonder what will happen then. Oh the fun it will be to watch. Almost as much fun as watching Hillary and Obama fight it out. Almost.

The price of oil. And gas. Course that may have something to do with the weakening dollar.

The national average price of a gallon of regular gas rose by 1.9 cents overnight to $3.246 a gallon, a new record, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Pump prices are following crude’s recent surge, and could rise as high as $3.75 a gallon this spring, analysts say.

Meanwhile, light, sweet crude for April delivery rose $1.17 to settle at $109.92 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after earlier rising to a new trading record of $110.20.

Doesn’t help us at the pump or anywhere else. Food prices along with everything else will rise cause it costs more to ship the stuff. Sucks.