no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

> > Brief power outage, perhaps?  ...
>
> note: the box is a laptop; I hit the power-off button and pulled
> out the 220V power cable of the power-supply from the outlet
> (that's why later the laptop after 2h uptime failed with battery
> empty) ...

So much for the power-bounce theory.

Perhaps you have a poltergeist?  :)