Dang, I forgot. A laptop. What's your battery life like?

About two hours, although if the A/C gets cut with the power, that could have a negative impact on the cat -- this is Houston in the summer. (And, I wouldn't want to be responsible for the SWAT officers taken out by our angry kitty.)

Now, I suppose I could call Southwestern Bell and ask them to "test" my DSL line for problems. The last time they did that, their probing took out my DSL router entirely, requiring a power cycle to resurrect it. Hmm...