Aww, cute kitty. How old was she?
That reminds me, I’ve got to pick my dog up from the veterinary hospital in the morning… Still no idea what the hell was up with him, but at least the shock and dehydration went away with a heating pad and some IV fluids.
croman
1603
9 is way too young for a cat to go, my condolences Vesper.
Well, my caught caught some fire today.
Sitting at the light, and suddenly smoke, tons of it, billowing from underneath the hood and underneath the car.
I’m not sure how severe the damage is, the burning seems to have been limited to burning off oil, no body damage, but I’m not sure how the rest of it is.
Acid
1605
Thanks to everyone who expressed condolences. Gram died very peacefully, and the hospice workers were wonderful. I take comfort in that.
It was weird today waking up in a world without her, but well, so it goes. My family and I will always have wonderful memories, and that’s how she’ll live on.
Cubit
1606
i am no longer a retail whore. i no longer work at best buy. that is all.
Ah man that sucks. My condolences.
I feel for you. I was pretty devastated when my gran died as we were extremely close, but I reconciled the loss the same way: knowing that she would live on through my memories. My only regret is that she never met my wife, but it gives me some great stories to tell her and the future kids - my way of giving her immortality.
150-500mm or 50-500mm? The Sigma (aka “Bigma”) 50-500mm is pretty good! I had one for about a week but ended up going with the Canon 600mm, sadly now departed in favor of having a kid which my wife seems to think is more important.
I’m sure this is terribly boring for everyone else, but it makes me happy: for six months I was unable to knit because of carpal tunnel, but my arms have recovered enough that I was able to get three socks knitted this last week. I’m so happy. I’m a lifelong knitter and had missed my needles horribly…
So I decided to check to see if my meter was faulty this weekend and turned off my power at the circuit breakers on Saturday. When I went up and watched them one meter kept rolling and the other had completely stopped. So I figured that one must be mine and started keeping track of what it said. Then tonight I went to check against my bill to see what my usage was so far this month, per the bills. Which is when I realized that whoever checks the meters has been billing me for my neighbor’s usage and billing my neighbor for my usage. What really, really fucking kills me is that I know that there’s going to be a big god damned to do when I bring this up and that I’m going to have to fight them every step of the way, because God forbid fucking NStar admitting that they’ve made a mistake and been making this mistake for nearly three years. That I’m the first one to notice it just flat out stuns me.
XPav
1612
I almost passed a counterfeit note today!
Bought some motor oil. Paid with $5. Walked out, was almost at my car, the dude said “hey, come back!”. So I go back. He says “this $5 is counterfeit!”. I say “No shit? Cool!”.
Then the manager came over and told him he was a dumbass.
So, interesting story… averted!
Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6,3 DG OS HSM
… and I’d love to keep it, but I think taking the kids on holiday rates higher in my wifes priorities.
deccan
1614
I watched a troupe of monks, supposedly from the Shaolin Monastery, perform kung fu at our local mall. They did short demonstrations of various types of armed (with fake foil weapons) and unarmed martial arts and then moved on to qi gong feats. These included having wooden poles broken on various body parts, shattering a strip of metal with bare heads, sandwiching their bodies between beds of nails and hitting them with a sledgehammer.
The feat with the most buildup was using a needle to pierce through a sheet of glass to burst a balloon. The glass had a hole in it afterwards, but didn’t shatter or even had any cracks. Just one neat round hole. I was going to get all James Randi on them, but they didn’t ask for volunteers. I joked that at this point these were probably professional actors playing the part of Shaolin monks but my wife wasn’t amused. She’d actually been there to train for a short time. They ended their show with a skit telling the story of how Zen Buddhism was founded.
“Mommy had a baby but its HEAD popped off.”
Anyone else remember this little childhood singsong when popping the heads off dandelions? It’s pretty sick now that I think about it.
Wait, so your wife is Shaolin trained? So she had to carry pails of water up a hill with blades at her sides to cut her if she dropped them? And had to watch a metronome while her head was positioned motionlessly between two burning embers? And then she couldn’t eat until she could cross the pool by running across slippery logs? That’s awesome!
tromik
1619
Warning: Do not read if you are about to eat or have a weak stomach.
Had my final little procedure today to complete the septoplasty. The doctor started by soaking massively long q-tips in local anesthetic, and then proceeded to jam them up my nostrils as far as possible. I could feel the pressure in my eyes. He let them sit in there for a bit, and then basically took a vacuum cleaner to my nose. I could feel all the clots and gunk being sucked out, and those bastards did not want to give up their homes. I guess because all that plumbing is connected, I could feel the pressure on both my eyes and the roof of my mouth at the same time.
It’s still pretty sore, but holy crap! I CAN BREATHE! I CAN SMELL AND TASTE! I’m also leaking stuff that looks like the ooze that made the Statue of Liberty dance in Ghostbusters II, but who cares!? The doctor said it would get better throughout the week, too. No more sleep apnea for me!
tromik
1620
That’s a nursery rhyme? Is there actually more to it, because that’s the only part I remember.
