Here's hoping your Monday is purrfect!
Emma-cat here doesn't know it yet but her vet lady is coming by on Monday to listen to her heart and give her a rabies shot. Emma-cat will not be happy about it. =^. .^=
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>:o :)
ReplyDeleteMondays are always a little confusing. But I am sure that Howard is first. 8-)
OK, it looks like this is the second post today, after donna's. BTW, donna, how does the new realtor seem? I should think things would be pretty slow in the house showing business with snow on the ground--but maybe that's just a California perspective...
ReplyDeleteWe're getting our third snowfall of 6" or more. I'm so happy to be retired!
ReplyDeleteWe've got about 15" on the ground now. Looks like I'll be doing still more shoveling.
Told my best friend I thought I'd worked my butt off, but when I looked around it was still there. Sigh.
Don't know how I can do so many hours of fairly intense physical work every day and STILL not lose weight!
Imaginary fiends
ReplyDeleteCrime in America keeps going down. Why does the public refuse to believe it?
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/02/14/imaginary_fiends/?page=2
Susan...I would shovel some of that for you if I could. We don't have any snow so my shovel is just sitting here.
ReplyDeleteI suppose I should go lay it down in the yard. That always used to make it snow when the children were little. ;)
I miss our laughing emoticon :lol: and the :wave:
It doesn't feel like Presidents' Day to me, because I had to get up early and go to a staff meeting at the Library.
But that's okay. Since we aren't getting snow, at least we're getting some sunshine! :)
Awh, cute Emma Kitty!
ReplyDeleteDidn't I post or comment or whatever yesterday?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cat! =^. .^=
ReplyDeleteEmma survived her visit from the vet lady. Kitty wasn't too pleased about it, to be sure. She hid under a blanket until she had to be examined. She tolerated the rabies shot. Then she went and sulked in the basement for awhile. Emma has every right to be annoyed at such things; after all, she will turn 14 in a few weeks. She deserves to be better dignified.
O:-)
The strange thing was that when the vet lady arrived and I went to the door to let her in, THERE on the doormat was lying a chickadee, quite dead. The poor thing had not been there an hour before. But judging it's position it must have struck the door's window and died instantly of a broken neck. I am sad because I love the perky little fellows. I can only imagine that it saw a reflection and thought it was an opening...even though it was to the door way up on the porch! =Sigh= It was so weird to have to pick up a dead Chickadee off the mat to let in the vet. Shudder. Like an opening to a scary movie! :'(
ReplyDelete♡ ALLY UPDATE ♡
ReplyDeleteYesterday, Ally went to see a dinosaur exhibit with her parents. She was terrified!!! =-O She actually had a pretty good time, although the life size moving dinos did scare her a bit. She really liked all the little games they had after looking at the dinosaurs.
Tomorrow Ally has blood drawn (at home). If the counts are high enough they can stop giving her daily injections!
Friday Ally goes to the hospital for an MRI scan, Echo-cardiogram and a meeting with the nutritionist. Friday is the 2nd anniversary of Ally's parents hearing how truly virulent her rare type of cancer is, and the 1st anniversary of hearing that her cancer had returned. (I always thought that happened on the 14th, 2 years ago, but it turns out that was the day the family found out about Ally's cancer.)
Ally's candle page:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=allys
Another rat, Evin Bayh, deserting.
ReplyDeleteBesides, he's not allowed to retire. I remember when his father was a senator, for Pete's sake! Talk about making a person feel old!
Sometimes I wish I were a cat. Raise my kittens and when they're grown go, "And who are you?". Tonight's one of those nights when I'm getting stressed out by a kid. There ought to be a time limit on that! Like, after they're 21 they're not allowed to get you upset. Yeah, there oughta be a RULE about that!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm just a bystander. It's their own business that they've gotten into a snarl. I don't want to worry about it, but can't seem to stop. I'm a professional worrier you see. When they were teens my kids called me "Wart" because I worried all the time.
Wishing I had a disconnect button for that worry gene.
The new realtor is very good. She speaks 'sales' and after 20 years in sales myself, I am glad she does.
ReplyDelete*hug* Susan
ReplyDeleteThought I was going to have more work come in today, but didn't hear from my client/boss. Just as well since I've spent the day catching up with what didn't happen while I was gone. Still have to make a trip to the bank and take care of a few other minor details, but should be ready to start tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI promised I'd write about those cross-convention panels. I got to one of the three, on Friday evening. Wow! Four outstanding science fiction writers -- Gene Wolfe and Rob Sawyer in Chicago, Alaistair Reynolds and Charles Stross in Boston -- talking about how how science fiction relates to the future. I can't recall when I've seen such as all-start panel, even at a Worldcon. Certainly no single regional convention could have managed it.
Then, on Sunday morning, we were discussing Charlie Stross's "Halting State," which I've mentioned here. About 15 minutes from the end the convention's tech guy brought in a laptop. And there on the screen was Charlie, live and in virtual person. One of the questions we asked him was why the book was written in second person. Turns out that is the way gaming scenarios are written, so it seemed appropriate for a book that had an on-line gaming company as a major part of its background.
Wish I could tell you how to locate that disconnect button -- it must exist somewhere -- but my button-finder doesn't seem to be working at the moment. <g> Best wishes anyway!</g>
ReplyDeleteCat ~
ReplyDeleteDo you remember when Truman held up that Chicago Tribune with the headline "Dewey Wins!" No? Then you aren't old.
Got some yard work done today; our tulip (saucer magnolia) tree is maybe a day or two away from full bloom.
ReplyDeleteMade a discovery about Echo--hold the cursor over the gravatar, and a box opens up with a "details" link for the writer. Click on "details" and you get a list of all their recent posts. [Might be only for the present thread--didn't think to check that.]
I'll second that idea grown kids not being allowed to get you upset.
ReplyDeleteThere really oughtta be a law.
The scenario that needles me at times is when you find out six months after the fact
that some offhand comment you made innocently has kept your DIL annoyed for six months,
but no one bothered to tell you. When you finally get to clarify, they all calm down.
And you wonder what you'll hear about next that you said six months ago.
These things are the slow-poison that cause the stresses that lead to illness.
Yep. Our kids are killing us. :-D
Hubby says: "Never have kids and never have parents." 8-) LOL!
ReplyDeleteAwesome, Bill! I was glued to reading your post!
ReplyDeleteToday at our staff meeting, we took a "field trip" to the SciFi section to parse out the best way to shelve Terry Brooks' books. We have some singles of his as well as some series. The publisher neglected to number the books in the series on the spine and we only ever shelve them in order if they're numbered on the spine. So they get shelved by title for the singles, then the series, by the series name and then alphabetical, within that series, by title. Marketing really needs to get a handle on it. They need to standardise his book spines. I do wish publishers would consult with Library directors. 8-)
Maybe your boss took today off as it was "Presidents' Day."
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