For those who missed it, some adorable kitty pics from the new apartment, posted over on countessaleska 's journal.

Expect more pics as we get the place in order and decide to start showing it off . . .

Damn that was a long month.

Now, where the hell was I . . .?

Hey, all, still alive, still in the throes of moving, just brushing past ElJay-land for a few on-and-off minutes this afternoon . . . but spotted this cute poster on the Yahoo front page, thought I'd link to it:

"Catfax"

As for the actual cats in my life, Fry has taken the move with typical equinamity; Tippy, unhappily, has not, and is in a very ( Read more... )

The moving continues, yadda, yadda . . . countessaleska and I are introducing the cats to their new home tonight, now most of the furniture is there, so wish us luck.

Been listening with increasing irritation to some of the arguments given against health care reform; I don't often post political stuff, but I ran accross this excellent column today:

"The Real ( Read more... )

Moving continues, and seems to be going at a good clip.  This weekend should see us with the last of the furniture shifted over.  All our friends have been amazing in the amount of help they're offering, which is particularly good because that means we don't have to hit any one person up *too* hard for extra hands or a big vehicle.

Basic internet ( Read more... )

Just a quick post to let folks know that Aleska and I are transferring computers, internet service, and phone service to the new place right now, and things may be spotty for several days (possibly until next Monday, though hopefully *not* that long).  More later!  Things are progressing, at least . . .

Was killing some time in the lab while folks from another lab got started using our fluorescence scope for the first time -- they wanted me around in case they had questions and I didn't want to be doing anything absorbing (even as absorbing as answering more emails or comments or anything) since I figured they'd interrupt me every 5 seconds (which ( Read more... )

. . . and time for the penguin on your TV your head to explode!

Well, not really, that's just how I always feel the morning before a con.  Anyway, I fear I've reached the point where I'm going to be unreliable as hell in terms of communications for about a month.  I don't expect I'll be going for total radio silence here, but if I'm crap at ( Read more... )

countessaleska  posted some more Fry (and Tippy) pics on her blog, here, including shots of Fry "helping" us pack up the bookshelves:

See them here.

We also finally documented Fry's fondness for "hatching" feet.  He comes up and sits on your foot -- not doing anything rude (though it can *look* that way), just sitting there like a broody hen on a nest.  His unique ( Read more... )

So.  It's the weird truth that Fry-kitty has an Evil Twin.  Skippy (the default name in this case) lives in one of the houses around here, and is roughly the same age, size and color as Fry, with the same coat length and texture -- the works, on other words.  He's a little less stripy, and has more white on his face and tail, but is otherwise so ( Read more... )