His full name is Jethro Tull because he's always "eyeing little squirrels with bad intent".

No matter what you call it, they sure know hiw to keep their humans from going anywhere. Willow is doing exactly that right now by sleeping on my shoulder.

To have on hand for employees when needed

I always take care of him when they travel. They have a big black cat named Sam. They also helped me rescue a cat from the parking lot here at the warehouse. They even paid his first vet bill!

Shorts? As a matter of idle curiosity, where are you that it is warm enough for shorts?

I live just north of Fort Lauderdale. I work alone in a small warehouse. We might get below freezing one or two nights the whole year. Right now it's nice. We can turn the a/c off and open the windows. My wife and I did live in Boston for a couple of years. I had to buy long pants to wear up there. I never did get a winter coat though. I just put on a sweatshirt and a hoodie and got one of those water resistant wind breakers. I liked Boston but I wasn't making any money up there so we came back home.

still are not as cold as some parts of the country.

I've lived down here since the early 70s though, so I'm what they call a "Semi-native" of south Florida. One thing that cracked me up about living in the cold was the fact that I would have to get dressed just to take the garbage out. One winter it snowed up the roof of our minivan. I don't miss having to dig out. That was hard work!