More later, but I'm home from MacWorld, from an extra week in San Francisco, and from Conflikt. Critters are all fine. Vet and petsitter bills for Thunder's little excursion into overdose-land are horrendous. I may not be leaving town again for awhile, 'cause this trip cost me waaaaaaay more than it was supposed to ( Read more... )

MacWorld Expo is over for another year. I'll meet some friends for drinks tonight, then I won't see some of them again 'til this time next year. The Mac admin community is fairly tight-knit, and in some ways the end of MacWorld has that same bittersweet feeling as the end of summer camp ( Read more... )

Got called by the vet this morning (at 6 a.m., 'cause I'm not sure anybody told the vet who was on duty first thing this morning that I'm three timezones away) and was told that Thunder was bouncing and happy and doing great. Got called about three hours later by Dr. Roach, reiterating the earlier info and telling me he'd chewed his IV catheter out ( Read more... )

I got the call this afternoon that you never want to get when travelling... my pet-sitter's boss called and the sitter (L) had called and said that one of the two younger dogs, who she's been alternating leaving loose in my room with Chase, had gotten into Chase's meds and was "doing badly" and she was calling the vet ( Read more... )

At some point, every MacWorld, I have to eat at Chevy's, because I like their food, they make killer margaritas, and there's still not one any closer to me than Chicago. So tonight I went to Chevy's with a friend, and I came home with a penguin ( Read more... )