Today on the way to work i saw a cat in the road. A non-moving lump. And at first i felt as if i had fallen into a choose-your-own-adventure book. "You see a lump in the road. What do you do? A) Avoid it and keep on driving. B) Run over it again. C) Stop and see what you can do." C. "The non-moving lump is a very badly injured or dead cat ( Read more... )

I've had the opportunity to interview a number of people (I'm not a manager, but I'm part of the "people you'll be working with" crowd). It astonishes me how horrible resumes are these days. Way back when I first learned about resumes, it was one page, no exceptions. If you had a lot of experience, edit it down to what's most relevant for the ( Read more... )

Donated blood today ( Read more... )

Phoenix seems to be doing quite fine. We've been watering him twice a week, and I've learned that warming up the sub-Q fluids really does help a lot - room temp, he does quite a jump when they start flowing, body-ish temp he doesn't. Also, having the needle whipping around squirting out water is more pleasant when it's warm. (He's jerked it out ( Read more... )

Earlier this week Earl and I took Phoenix and Madeleine to the vet. Maddie had been getting "It's time for your yearly checkup!" notices, which i had been diligently putting on the fridge. Phoenix had just had his yearly checkup in November, but at that time we noted that he had lost a little weight. A blood test showed that his creatinine and ( Read more... )

Since the last time I posted ( Read more... )

Last night Earl and I were working on a crossword puzzle ( Read more... )

From nick-101Rules: Copy to your own journal, erase my answers and enter yours. Use the first letter of your REAL NAME (No nicknames) to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real, nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name ( Read more... )

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