oh yeah, and why did the kitty inspire this?

because i don't want to leave behind another cat

last cat i adopted was born in my apartment and then the war broke out in ukraine and i was like, no, i think i would prefer to be further away from this than right next door on the black sea

he was the kitten of a cat that was probably the direct descendant of a russian blue cat owned by a ukrainian refugee, very very likely, because i had already noticed since maybe back 2018 also in Serbia a lot of russian blue cats suddenly appearing in neighbourhoods, and i know that they are common in russia and ukraine but kinda uncommon outside of those regions, that's why the breed is called "russian" - it's common in russia (it originated from an island up near finland, in fact)

so, it all kinda meshes together in my mind... i want a cat, permanent pet, i want to have him on my lap for the next 20 years, ideally, and not abandon or lose him along the way, and being a ship cat and me adopting a ship and seeing this little critter as my responsibility and ward something that i want... see, i don't have children but hell if i'm gonna be a hermit then i need a cat, and if i need a cat, then better it's a ship cat because this also solves my problems with getting stupid driving licences and negotiating transport, because i have a ship, and i live in the ship and i travel in the ship

maybe after this one big trip i'll go back to being a landlubber but me and mochi here are gonna be stuck together like glue, after some 4-6 months in a rocking boat with this little guy my only company yeah i'm just gonna dock and make my scheme to transport us into the high altitude hermitage scenario directly, or at least to a reasonable intermediate situation

and even then, if i can navigate some ways inland via big rivers that would be bonus points, escape from the storms of the nasty noisy gulf of mexico and up the mississipi or something until it's too narrow and then dock there