A few years ago at work several of us decided to take the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® test (which was originally based on Carl Jung’s theories of psychological types). This test categorizes people into one of sixteen types as defined by the combinations of four different personality indicators. I am an INTJ (Introvert, INtuitive, Thinking, Judging) type, or an ISTJ (Sensing rather than Intuitive), as measured two different times I’ve completed the questionnaire. This essentially means that I am a judgmental, narrow-minded, overbearing, know-it-all who has little need for human companionship and zero tolerance for any degree of incompetence or stupidity in others. Pretty much right on target. A better description found on The Skeptic's Dictionary web site: "Usually have original minds and great drive for their own ideas and purposes. In fields that appeal to them, they have a fine power to organize a job and carry it through with or without help. Skeptical, critical, independent, determined, sometimes stubborn. Must learn to yield less important points in order to win the most important." As the Skeptic proclaims, "The profiles read like something from Omar the astrologer..."

I found a listing of "Serenity Prayers", one for each of the sixteen Meyers Briggs types. INTJs are to pray "Lord, keep me open to others' ideas, WRONG though they may be." So far, this prayer stuff has not had much effect.

Cats: Tabitha is missing, hiding out in some deep recess of the house. The two evil cats were locked in the pantry all day by accident. They had gotten into the pantry (a walk-in closet off the kitchen) overnight and had chewed through the bottom of their bag of diet food, spilling food all the floor. They didn't seem too hungry tonight when I finally heard them making scraping noises under the pantry door.