Ally, the alpha cat in my household, has a severe case of catitude. She demands to sit on my lap and leaves as soon as she has altered whatever I was doing.

No, that indicates a cloaked Romulan vessel with a repulsor beam.

Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.

Yes, it sounds a bit coarse and diesely when you fire it up, but thereafter, it's sewing-machine smooth, nicely zingy and almost unbelievably economical.