This article from The Conversation says that in a state far away from mine, a backyard farm has reported one of their pigs infected with avian influenza.

It says there is no sustained spread at this point.

It is a welcome alternative read besides the political jibberish that has flooded the waves the past couple of days though.

Things should all be ( Read more... )

I think my younger cat was prompted by the siren blaring in the background.

Meanwhile, they gave me the slides for a sickle cell disease/thalassemia presentation coming up soon since I expressed interest to the people in charge. Sugoi, it seems like the doctors currently use a cancer drug to treat it. Is that right? Are they even allowed to do that ( Read more... )

Hello LJ!

The primary reason is that it has an interesting black bird I wanted to check on the cover. It is one of those new ones called Weyward.

OH! On Dreamwidth late last night I was falling asleep when I was thinking about visiting my friend so I postponed thinking out the rest of it until later. (I know that I have my Dreamwidth account ( Read more... )

Did you know the Greek for forgetfulness was Lethe? That is what I was told via e-mail.

Merriam-Webster corroborates with the story; it says:

1. capitalized in Hades whose waters cause drinkers to forget their past

2: OBLIVION, FORGETFULNESS

My cat Cora is asleep behind me. When I patted her she woke up to groom herself, then I let the older cat ( Read more... )

The audiobook, which is due 24th July, is written by a personal secretary named Omid Scobie, about the British Monarchy, which I know very little about, past what I had been educated about, which, when I look back on it, seems somewhat biased, since... um...

I've been getting pro-tips about my speaking since I've been fourteen by, um...

It is true ( Read more... )

Maybe twelve or fifteen years ago, my mother had told me that was what she really was interested in, to bring her dog back to life, so I had gotten some books from the library about it - they were ebooks and at the time I could only look at them for ten or fifteen minutes at a time... (I still can't look at the screen for too long, even at a ( Read more... )

Since I do not have much income, rather than pay a website to use it, I will use what I have had before, since it is more efficient.

If I don't want anyone to see this, I can always use a different service. I like the LJ icons I have, as opposed to the ones I have available on Dreamwidth, which are different - I mean, I put one of the purple icons ( Read more... )

I wish I would be able to get one of those beautiful-sounding oboes that I had been eyeballing before. If I had it, then I would be able to sound good in an orchestra setting again.

My cats Cora and Tilly are both within reach, which is rare. They are listening to the coos of the birds out the window.

Yesterday I had been watching a woman describe ( Read more... )

This website says that FeLV is an incurable disease. Except that the first link I tried from that didn't work - let's try a different one! ^_^ I asked Tilly if she wanted to have her teeth brushed but she wasn't for it, though I touched Cora's teeth a little bit earlier without anything on my fingertip!
It says preventing gum disease is better than ( Read more... )

Hello LJ! It just mentioned the President that I studied in high school, Lyndon Johnson :D

Gosh, I have never been in the situation that the author of this book describes.

And Tilly came over to hear what all the commotion is, now, too.

I put on a mask just a moment ago since I felt like it might be necessary, even if I might be by myself. It made ( Read more... )