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I just discovered an organization with posssibly the best name ever:

The National Fenestration Rating Council

As they say on their web page, "NFRC is a non-profit organization that administers the only uniform, independent rating and labeling system for the energy performance of windows, doors, skylights, and attachment products." Can you picture yourself going to career day at your puppy's kindergarten class and saying, when asked what your job is, "I rate attachment products."

Ok, so the organization itself isn't that exciting, but it does bring to mind one of my favorite words, defenestration, which Mirriam-Webster defines as "a throwing of a person or thing out of a window." Does that mean dogs can't be defenestrated? But I know dogs can be fenestrated, because that's what the doctor did to me the last time I had surgery for a ruptured intervertebral disk (my fourth or fifth, I lose count).

By the way, as much as I support energy conservation, I'm against windows that don't let in heat. I'm stuck in the house all day with the blinds closed, and during the rare occasion my humans let actual direct sunlight into the house, I run right over to it to soak up the heat. (If it's hitting the floor, that is.)