Working backwards on what I saw tonight (no planned spoilers, just lots of vaguery ( Read more... )

Rachel has just informed me that the cats killed a mouse in our bedroom earlier. I was wondering what was going on when I came home from work and a boot that normally sits with its mate on the lower shelf of the bench at the foot of our bed was sitting in the middle of the kilim runner between the bench and the mantle, while the runner was all ( Read more... )

I've finally managed to get through an entire day without any cold medicine, so I actually felt alert enough today to do some more editing on the Games book, and some actual writing in it, with my addition of a bunch of material cited from Jane McGonigal's book Reality is Broken. (Has anyone read it?) I also took my last dose of antibiotics today, ( Read more... )

Cameron is home from the hospital and is somewhat resigned to being restricted to the family room, since he is to be kept away from the other three cats for the next two weeks. He didn't need his jaw realigned after all, he just needed some teeth pulled that had shifted so badly it seemed that his entire lower face was out of whack. I just gave him ( Read more... )

We had to take our sweet daddy cat, Cameron, to the vet hospital emergency room this evening because he was holding his tongue between his teeth and drooling excessively, none of which is good. However, after examining him closely, they determined that his problem was with his jaw and that he needed dentistry to fix what was ailing him; his entire ( Read more... )

...and now my cats are chasing a HUGE freaking Junebug around my study! I don't even--where the hell did this thing come from? And doesn't it know that it's July now? Seriously, it's like some mutant from an SF universe I don't even want to read about because HELLO NIGHTMARES ABOUT GIANT BUGS. (This is why Chris reads Greg Bear but I don't. And ( Read more... )

Today we had to make the decision to have our "baby kitty", Aya, who was the runt of the litter, put to sleep. She'd been lethargic and refraining from eating for a couple of days and was only occupying two rooms, our bedroom and the adjacent bathroom, where she used the litter box and drank from the kitty water fountain but did little else other ( Read more... )

Cameron just walked on Chris's keyboard and once again managed to type something when he did so. Appropriately enough, it was "tiger", although that wasn't how he spelled it ( Read more... )

I've been waffling on bifocals vs. progressives because the only thing I can't do with my glasses right now is read small print; I have to take them off to do this. I don't mind taking my glasses off, actually, when I'm doing something like reading in bed, since I'm getting ready to go to sleep soon anyway, but the real pain is reading music. I'm a ( Read more... )

TO: CAMERON, PAISLEY, SKYE & AYA ( Read more... )