Bubby was a sweet boy for the vet. He was terribly thin at 11 lb 2.5 oz (less than when he came to us!) and didn't flinch at getting his temperature checked, which was down to 96. He tested negative for FeLV, but the chemistry panel revealed he was in diabetic ketoacidosis and had a blood sugar level of 580 ( Read more... )

Good: Vogon got an offer on one of the companies he'd done multiple interviews with and accepted it this morning. It will take him out of the medical software niche but is still in software development. (We did have a "small world" moment a few weeks ago when anonymosaurus gave us the card of a friend of his in medical IT and we realized it was someone Vogon ( Read more... )

After a year of trying out names on Bubby, we have a weiner winner: Retardo Montalban.

(I think Biko, wherever she is, would approve.)

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Getting a stomach bug is definitely not a comfortable way to lose weight. Then again, laughing at the phrase "High Speed Inserters" in a monster.com listing isn't a comfortable way to snort a beverage either. At least being under the weather has given me lots of time to read Damn Interesting and let the cat sleep next to my head. I love my fender- ( Read more... )

I survived Cub camp. Yay! We stowed the canopy, cooler and water jugs in the storage unit. Haven't decided whether to take the cart or not, but I put it out on the patio for now because the rubber-tire smell was pretty strong when the cart was sitting up on end in the entry over the weekend. Next up is setting dates for the summer committee ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I found Lion Bouclé yarn in a limited selection of colors at my local dollar store. I bought ten skeins then, found none a few days later, and then scored 20 skeins the next week to inexpensively feed my current crafting kick of making things on my Knifty Knitter looms. Mister Fender has taken a shine to snuggling (and shedding on) ( Read more... )

Yesterday I volunteered at a neighborhood Washington Mutual location's grand opening. Got to meet interesting local people, fed breakfast to a team of cheerleaders, and was frequently mistaken as an employee of either the bank or the local deli that delivered the food trays I was tending. A couple of DJs from Mix 102.9 were there with swag; they ( Read more... )

Apparently not even cats can resist the magnetic powers of Vogon's car, as one crawled up under it for warmth on Saturday night.

( We had to get the cat professionally extracted from the car, but neither is any worse for wear. Do you recognize this cat? )