INPUT ARTICLE: Article: For the best results, look for a handheld LED light with 9-12 bulbs. It should be rated between 365-385 nm, which stands for nanometers. A lower rating won’t be strong enough to light up the cat urine, and a higher rating is too similar to natural light to have an effect.  You can find these lights online or at a local home improvement store. You can also find UV lights with fluorescent bulbs. As long as it’s rated between 365-385 nm, this will work as well, although the LED lights tend to be stronger. While you could try to draw all the curtains in the room as tightly as possible, it will be easier to wait until it gets dark outside before you try to use the UV light. When you’re ready to start looking, turn off the lights in the room, as well as the lights in any adjacent rooms or hallways. If the room isn’t dark enough, your eyes won’t be able to detect the glowing urine. Typically, the urine spot will be somewhere in the area where you can smell it, although sometimes you’ll have to look around a little before you find it. To make the search more efficient, start searching near where you think the cat may have urinated, then work outward. When the UV light comes into contact with the urine, it should start to glow. Depending on how much urine there was, and where it is located, the stain may look like a spot, puddle, splatter, or drips.  For example, if your male cat sprayed to mark his territory on the wall, it may look like a splatter, with a few drips running down the wall. If the cat peed on the floor, you might just see a large round-ish spot. Some cleaning products and other household materials, including wallpaper glue, may glow under a blacklight, so don't panic if your whole room lights up when you turn on the UV light. Other substances, including some bodily fluids and tonic water, may also glow. Use the location, size, shape, and smell of the spots to determine if it's cat urine. Cats may sometimes urinate on a variety of different surfaces, so don’t just check the floor. Slowly move the light from side to side, checking along the walls and door frames, on top of and on the sides of furniture, and on any bedding in the area. If you don’t spot the stain right away, slowly move outward from the source of the odor. It can be hard to remember exactly the size and shape of the stain when the lights come back on. To ensure you know exactly where you’re supposed to clean, use something like tape or chalk to mark a perimeter around the stain. It’s a good idea to clean further outside of the stain than what you can actually see, in case the stain soaked in and spread out, so don’t worry about perfectly defining the edges. Just make a small mark at the top, bottom, and sides of the stain so you’ll remember where it was.

SUMMARY: Purchase or borrow a UV light between 365-385 nm. Wait until evening and get the room as dark as possible. Go to the area where you suspect the urine is located and turn on the UV light. Look for a glowing yellow or neon green spot. Sweep the light back and forth, checking various surfaces. Mark the edges of the stain so you’ll know where to find it.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Every journal entry you make should have obvious info included for the sake of posterity. This includes the name of the author and the title of the book. Make a point of putting this in boldface or otherwise emphasizing it on the page or screen. That way, it'll be easier to keep track of your reading when you go back to look at your entries further down the road. The memory is fickle. Even if you're enjoying the book you're reading a lot, there's no promise you'll remember most or even some of the material. This problem becomes bigger the more stuff you read. While you're definitely not expected to log in every piece of information a book has to offer, it's a good idea to jot down things that interest you. The bits of info you mark down can be an anchor for remembering other things. Most books will have certain lines that jump out at you. You won't be able to snag all of the quotes you want, but there may be one or two per book that will be worth recording word for word. Going quote-hunting is especially worthwhile if you think you've found a line or two that perfectly expresses what the rest of the book is about. Don't forget to include the page number if you quote something from a book. Some book journals will rely exclusively on what a book is about, but there's just as much value in talking about the way an author explores his topic. Think about things like writing perspective (first person, third person etc.), the length of the book, the use of imagery and poetic devices, and whatever other techniques the author has used. For the sake of writing in your journal itself, write your feelings on whether you think certain techniques worked or not. A journal entry can be an informal critical review. By putting technical aspects under the microscope, you'll be able to tell good from bad writing apart more easily over time. A book journal doesn't just catalogue what you're reading. Like any type of journal, it also indirectly comments on the course of your life. Your life experiences dictate what you read about, and in turn, certain books will be associated with parts of your life. With this in mind, write down the time and place you were when you read most of it. Writing down the ties between what you're reading and what you experienced is a great way to better remember both. This will help enrich the association between the book and the circumstances of your life. For the sake of understanding the experience of reading a book, it may be a good idea to write in a few notes about what is actually happening in your life at the time of reading. Having a idea of what was going on (where you were living, who you were dating etc.) will bring a lot of the smaller details from that stage of your life back to you.  With some given background in place, you can contextualize the book in question with the mindset you were in at the time. This can help explain why you focused on or wrote certain things in each entry. Obviously, more personal details should only be included if the book journal is totally private and not at risk of being read by anyone else. Books are a source of fun and relaxation, but they also help us grow as people. Most books you read probably won't have a lasting impact, but a few inevitably will. If you feel like a book has permanently altered the way you see the world, you should make  a clear note of it at the bottom of your entry. It may be helpful to put a note like this in boldface. That way, when you're scanning past entries months or years from now, you'll be able to quickly spot the ones that were especially noteworthy to you at the time.

SUMMARY:
List the book's essential information. Write in facts you might forget. Copy memorable quotes into your entry. Comment on writing techniques in the book you're reading. Note your current time and place with each book entry. Relate the book to what's going on in your life. Reflect on whether the book has changed you.