For those not on Facebook: At approximately 10:00 am local time today, we finally made the unimaginably hard decision to free Ari the Humongous Orange Tabby™ from the pain and suffering of feline leukemia and help him take his last step over the Rainbow Bridge, with the aid of Dr. Barry Spencer, DVM at his clinic in Mbabane. He will be interred ( Read more... )

( Warning: Extensive whinging back of the cut. )

( In which Your Humble gets to see not one but two new movies, sample South African brekkie and have the living crap scared out of him driving on the left side of some very dark country roads. )

( In which our midday yen for home-delivery fast food indirectly causes a minor structural catastrophe. )

Some of you longtime readers know my Songbird, singing_phoenix, works in global public health administration. You may also know she spent 2.5 years doing this work in Nairobi, Kenya from 2007-09, while Your Humble kept the home fires burning in the city that, at present, is once again demonstrating why its nickname is "HOT-lanta ( Read more... )