I was back at the Cantab after being off last week ( Read more... )

  Today I got a beautiful sympathy card from my vet.  Not the animal hospital, but the actual vet ( Read more... )

...Rock Band.  I don't think I'll need Rock Band II for a bit - this one has *two* NIN packs, and one of the tracks is "The Collector" from With Teeth which has the most kickass drum part ( Read more... )

    Today, I find myself sitting in the recliner, missing Shiva.  She almost always was in whatever room I was in, lying against the wall or curled up on the rug. Every time I look at the place in the living room where she'd lay down, it hits me and there's this twinge.  It sucks ( Read more... )

   I came home from the Cantab tonight knowing Shiva was not feeling so well.  She had laid down in the hallway oustide the bathroom and was sleeping there.  I was worried, but she's had a time like this before but came through it.  On the way home, I was wondering when I would know it's time to have her put to sleep, which has been one of my ( Read more... )

  Richard Cheese, in this case.  Nothing like a full-throated lounge version of "Baby Got Back" to make your morning/afternoon.

insafemode  beat thevanisher  in a battle that went down to the final round.  I was fully worked in the "Anything Goes" round, which just shows that if there weren't the "no musical accompaniment" rule in "proper" slam, I'd be getting a lot ( Read more... )

Not that I wasn't before. More of the same, I guess.

( Wherein I ramble about skiing and the dogs... )

    Well, it's now 12:05 so I guess it's "noon," but still ( Read more... )

    She's doing better. 
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In the last few days, Shiva stopped eating.

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