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That's good news! Hopefully she'll stay for a while.
Non-Complaint: Our new kitten is growing up fast. He must be 18 weeks old now, and is about the size of a middling size domestic moggie. He still has a lot of growing to go. Maine Coon skeletons seem to be near finished size at 52 weeks, and then get a little bigger & bulk up for the next 2 years after that.
Complaint: He seems to believe acupuncture is good for human skin, and he is very prickly. I have 29 separate healing puncture wounds on my right hand & forearm from teeth & claws from the last 3 days. He doesn't mean to hurt, he just gets excited.
Regards,
Richard
When my Russian Blue was tiny, at one point for some reason he got it in his head to launch himself at my ex's derrière... and stuck there, like one of those Garfield plushes people would put on their car windows in the 80's. Poor baby hadn't really thought it through and couldn't decide what to do next, especially when the ex- started flailing around in a frantic and futile effort to remove him, because of course he couldn't reach. It was like something straight out of a cartoon, and I have no issue admitting I just stood there and laughed for a bit before I had mercy on the poor cat and rescued him.
Kitty learned his lesson, but that image lives gloriously rent free in my head.
Oh dear. I can imagine.. Makes a smile.
I have one little story from my childhood that makes me careful with the kitten at the moment. My brother as a 5yo was just about to get into the bath when our tabby kitten 'Pudding' saw something dangling from my brothers naked body between his legs. Kitten leapt int the air & hooked a claw in on his way down. Strangely enough my brother screamed. Lots. And loudly. Kitten fled.
For some reason, 50 years later, my brother doesn't like cats.
Regards,
Richard
...oh dear... At least my ex had some cloth armor on, and it was on his padded side.
NON-Complaint: I came out of my bathroom this morning to find Charlie and Simon had taken possession of my pillows (we have a time-sharing agreement). Unfortunately they maybe evicted sooner than normal today. Simon is the darker one laying on his older brother Charlie. And those pillows were neatly made up, so they squashed them down to fit into. That is their cat bed. YouTube is playing cat music to sleep by.
Complaint: I am on a 'Choose your own adventure' in the medical sense. I have been feeling iffy and called up my doctor's office yesterday. A late appointment, many tests there and later at the medical center has me now waiting to find out if I have the flu, Covid, or mild case of the West Nile Virus. The first two are human transmittable, the last is not.
Of course I have a work order out to fix my garbage disposal that went on the fritz Sunday night again. And I have to pick-up a prescription on Thursday of refrigerated medicine. I am almost hoping for West Nile. But regardless, I have a headache from hell, achy, dizzy, slight temperature increase, and the brain can't process a coherent sentence. Kind of like when I had my first Covid shot.
Mary
Charlie and Simon look like beautiful cats.
Thanks @Sfariah. Simon is the 3paw, and comes with five swords on that front paw. Along with no problem biting me when I trespass where I should not.
This guy is Oscar. He will let you know the no belly rub rule in case you forgot.
Non-complaint: Tomorrow(Wednesday) is my "pay day". Yay!
No absolute need to go uptown again this week, but I've been a good boy and not overspent, so I have enough discretionary money left over to splurge a little. It's near time for laundry again too. And it's time for prescription pickup at the drugstore again, but careful counting reveals that I have enough pills to last through the week and most of next week, but I have this month's $10 coupon at the drugstore that expires in a week. The week after that is a doctor appointment. So..., what to do, what to do?
I can't pick up the prescriptions until Thursday, but it's going to be a beautiful day tomorrow. So far these past 30 days I've managed an uptown trip once each week, why break the pattern? OK, I've decided. I'm going to let my emotions out-vote my logic and give in to the wanderlust tomorrow.
It will cost me another Uber trip but hey, I will have just gotten paid.
So, now that that's decided, where do I have breakfast. I'm jonesing for "Biscuit & Gravy" again, but breakfast at BurgerKing is my usual laundry day breakfast. I have enough time to order my prescriptions delivered through snail-mail. So, it will be bus to breakfast at BK tomorrow, then laundry, time-shared with CVS drugstore coupon redemption, and a few groceries at the nearby big grocery store. And finally an Uber home. Then next week, bus to doctor appointment, then Uber halfway home to a late breakfast or early lunch at my favorite hole-in-the-wall decrepit beanery, pick up a Subway sandwich and Chinese takeout, and an Uber the rest of the way home. And this should be close to the end of my summer splurges, no doctor appointments until I see the dentist in late November, and only grocery and laundry on the horizon. And sometime in there I'll probably go to breakfast with Symphony Buddy again. Oh, and there's a symphony in Erie,PA that we've discussed but not yet committed to. Life looks good for a while, unless the upcoming doctor appointment discloses something nasty.
Complaint: Neighbor guy has finished the roofing, but has left shingles and other related trash in the yard. I've picked up what I can around my side of the house, but bending is not one of my remaining skills. Also, neighbor guy and family have cleaned out the enclosed front porch on the other side of my living room windows to which I have no access. I keep the blinds closed but sound comes through easily. And they've taken up using that room for drinking and smoking and evening parties with friends.
Thankfully, I often wear headphones while listening to music or TV, so I can block most of it out, but still ..., I miss the days when the enclosed front porch was used as storage.
The "We've Devolved to Cat Stories Again", Complaint Thread.
I found this book at a charity I like to go to every week. It is like a food bank plus.
Well, I think Oscar is named extremely well:-)
The name Oscar has a dual meaning from Old Norse and Irish roots, translating to "God's spear" or "deer friend". The Old Norse meaning, derived from os ("god") and gar ("spear"), signifies divine strength, while the Irish meaning, from os ("deer") and cara ("friend"), suggests a connection to nature.
I have results on two of the tests. At least I am not able to share my joy in being sick with others. Just have to wait on the third test to confirm if the mosquitos won this battle with me. It used to be I just became swollen and itched like crazy when I got nailed by them. Now we can get ill enought to end up in the hospital and die. Joy. I am hoping it stays as a mild case.
Another Non-Complaint: Yay, my kitchen window is clean again. First time in a year.
I've been relying on the weather to rinse it off, but somewhere along the line a bird in a pooping mood took aim and left his mark. Normally I wouldn't have let it go so long, but I'm getting weaker and weaker. I used to take my 4-foot step ladder out to get up high enough to step onto the top ledge of the basement doors (the type that slant at about 45 degrees to reveal a staircase decending into the basement) but I'm too unsteady on ladders anymore, and standing on the narrow ledge was a recipe for disaster. So after most of a year staring through a dirty window I ordered a window squeegee from Amazon. One that had a very long handle(abour 45 inches). It came this morning and I've used it. Works OK. I can stand on the ground, spray the spongy part with Windex and scrub the window, then flip it over and squeegee the dirty liquid off. Yay, clean windows again, and no ladder disasters.
Complaint: After done with the window cleaning, while still holding the squeegee and the bottle of Windex, navigating the obstacle course at the base of my porch steps, I slipped and scraped my knuckles against some rough wood on the porch post, enough to make it bleed slightly. No disaster, just clumsy inconvenience.
Wash it, coat with Neosporin antiseptic, let nature take its course. The obstacle course is a result of water erosion of the dirt & rock driveway which is now a 4 inch dropoff, eight inches from my bottom porch step.
Mega-complaint: my 10 year old laptop, HAL 9000 2.0, may be a gonner. I rebooted it this morning and instead it went to Asus's BIOS setup utility (Aptio). Husband, an experienced tech, was unable to bypass Aptio or get it work, or even get it into safe mode. Husband thinks we might be able to recover the hard drive & has promised to get me a partition on his laptop.
Ironically, a good friend posted overnight that his PS4 had finally died.
So sorry you're feeling poorly... whatever it is, I hope you can get some answers and relief soon, and make a fast and full recovery.
EDIT: Just saw your update: very glad it's not covid, with all the long term ick that can come with that, but West Nile's not great, either. Fingers crossed ran ean afoul of some other random bug you weren't tested for.
Sending good thoughts for data recovery. Never fun to have that be a question mark.... no matter when you last backed up, it's never recently enough.
Non-Complaints: We interrupt the sweet Cat Fest (that I have been enjoying) for pictures of my dogs lazily eating doggo "ice cream." Bear is the fluffy black & white Lab/Belgian shepherd. Gilly is the smooth liver & white collie.
Truer words were never typed. I searched & have found a few fixes for this problem that we will try out when husband feels a little better. It seems it isn't uncommon for Asus machines. We were planning to replace both computers early next year, since Husband's is only a few years younger than mine.
Oh sweet! Reminds me of the little love I grew up with. I miss having a dog, but no way do I have the bandwidth to care for one. I'm starting to get the itch to welcome another cat, though, with all these darling pictures. It's been since the December before last, and I don't think in my whole life I've gone so long with only humans in the house.
cats are at least home-helps - earlier ours found a spoon I had left on the worktop that was covered in sauce from the duck I'd been transferring to the microwave and she very thoughtfully licked it clean so it didn't look as untidy.
I love dogs and miss Bugsy still. But there is an apartment full of all kinds of dog breeds, mixed breeds and just plain mutts for me to love on when we run into each other during walkies. Seriously, it has been years since some have seen me, and when they do they charge me, ripping the leash from their friend's hands. And one reason I live in jeans and tees. Dog friendly. And cat friendly.
Thanks @SilverGirl. Still not heard from the doctor on the West Nile tests. Not sure how long they have to cook. But apparently a strain that is known as the 'St. Louis Virus' or something like that is also here now. So maybe they are doing DNA analysis on it?
Regardless, unless my fever spikes, or I start sneezing/coughing blood I am good to manage this from home. Rest, meds, liquids and more rest.
But working on my project to fix the .dsx .dsa and .jpg/png files to match the updated formated .dsx files in the metadata requires me to go really slow to make sure I don't destroy something. So taking breaks, resting eyes, saving work and being very deliberate on what I am doing. SKU 83346 is my next one tomorrow. Thankfully not everyone needs work.
And then there was the macOS update today on all my computers, iPads and iPhone. Joy.
I cancelled YouTube TV (what we call a cable TV service) because the only channe we watch is one local channel. But I've just realized now we don't have the DVR, which means we will miss the one show we watch on that channel. I may well resubscribe to YouTube TV. I would be effectively paying $82.99 per month to watch one TV show. I vaguely remember having a TV tuner with a built-in DVR somewhere.
Maybe? I hadn't heard of that strain, but if it's new, it would make sense that folk want to study it. IIRC that one takes a few days just as usual, though.
Sometimes we devolve to cat stories. Sometimes we devolve to talking about symphonies. Sometimes we devolve to talking about mowing lawn nearly or completely naked. As long as we keep devolving as a people, we're okay.
LOL and here I thought it was evolving to cat stories
Oh no, not naked. We have stinging nettles and thorny blackberries in the garden. Not safe or (in my case with regard to the mental wellbeing of any unfortunate neighbours) aesthetically acceptable.
Sunburn. Ow.
No worries on that account. But like a Phoenix we rise from the ashes to help aspiring wizards defeat dragons.
You have a pillow above your head?
Better than the Sword of Damocles, I guess. Still, it must be uncomfortable when the cat is sleeping on it.
I'll stop being silly and go away now.
Speaking of cats, a meme I made with AI: