It had been a crap day for both of us. At work at the monthly meeting this morning, we've been told we're going to udnergo *massive* budget cuts. No new staff, no new equipment, no upgrades to current equipment, all new student sponsorship ended, all collaborations with outside organisations ended,...

If anyone wants to light a candle for Casey, here's a link: http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Casey I hope it works. Yowie -- If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.

For those with OCD or geekness or whatever. Last year, there were a total of 59 people on the card list, this year, there is 52 Last year, of those 58 people, 17 people were 'receive only', this year there is 12 We've had 5 new people join (or rejoin after an absence) this year, but have lost...

Its been a week of medical stress. I have to have a mammogram (in a fortnight, the earliest available), and Joel.... well, he is being sent to a specialist too, so urgently, we got an apointment *the next day* (ie, tomorrow morning). I am worried stupid for the both of us. Don't usually ask...

I've had my "mammogram". It wasn't actually a mammogram but an ultrasound (apprantly i am too young to have a mammogram still). Whilst the lady that did the ultrasound wasn't allowed to diagnose, and I haven't got the radiologist's report yet, there seemed to be no sinister denser spots onthe...

Thoguht this pic of a meatloafcat was wonderful. The caption aint' half bad either. http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/09/22/hovercat-is-hovering/ Yowie

Siobhan is the 'girlfriend' of The Yowlet, and is also the little girl with a brain tumour. I'm sorry to report that the cancer has not responded to chemotherapy and doubled in size in the last 6 months. She had another operation yesterday to relieve the pressure, but the prognosis is looking...

Even after her second "spaying", Shadow still caterwails all night. This is *not* making her a popular cat with Joel. She also flatly refuses to use the litterboxes, much preferring the kitchen - right at the place where you'd stand when working at the sink. This does exactly nothing to increase...

Hoping this is the link to YouTube clip of the Music by Jethro Tull and lots of pics of gorgeous kitties (I can't tell because YouTube is blocked at work) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp5x4GkS7AU Yowie

long The peircing in my ear was still giving me grief. Joel dragged me off to his tattoo shop as they also do peircings to get some advice. First of all, I got my ear pierced in a 'difficult' place (there are many 'standard' non-lobe peircing places on the ear. Mine isn't one of the standard...

Seen as a .sig in a Wiccan group: "storm" wrote: The ultimate boundary that is a circle cast by a coven is impenetrable to all except cats and small children. Small children do not know any better. Cats do. so, so true

"Pat" wrote in message ... I just spoke with the utility office again. They said my bill was not estimated, the start reading is the same as the end reading on the previous occupants' bill. They are insisting that this bill I got...

We ere given loads of garlic. About 20 full bulbs, with allt he cloves still intact. We had no idea what to do with it all, and the idea that chopping garlic when you need it is a PTA, we chopped lotsof it up in the foodprocessor, put it in a glass jar, and added olive oil. The olive oil idea was...

Just to fill you in on the Feral Cats At Work issue, I work at a steel mill. The steel mill is bigger than 3 suburbs (feel free to look up a map of Wollongong, you'll see the steelworks and associated services just to the south of the town). There are *always* feral cats around here,...

Shmogg's sleeping location on my bed had been found through years of trial and error, and now its a ritual every night. After yelling for food for about an hour, he gets fed at 10:30pm every night (regardless of how much begging, cajoling, wining, whimpering, doing the cute, doing the pathetic...

Lessons We Learn From Geese Author Unknown Next fall when you see geese heading south for the winter... flying along in V formation...you might consider what science has discovered as to why they fly that way: Fact 1: As each goose flaps its wings it creates an "uplift" for the birds that...

Due to various issues, none too serious by their own, but all together a bit overwhelming, I haven't managed to get the cards off this year, and doubt I'll manage it before the 24th. So please forgive me if you get a "Happy New Year" card instead. Yowie

Last night, after an incredibly exciting evening of cooking dinner, shopping and having a long and incredibly detailed discussion of the existentialist sub-theme in Thomas the Tank compared and contrasted to the essential Marxist nature of Bob The Builder, I finally found my way to bed at...

Sorry folks, its been along day and I just sort of got snarky. I cancelled the message that I sent, but it probably got through to some news providers anyway. Just wanted to say sorry for being bitchy, particular to Pat. I hope the spider bite doesn't cause you too much suffering. Yowie

Shadow has a potty mouth, and Suki isn't the brightest, but I had no idea that Pickle was a mean cat. I've now seen with my own eyes how he torments the other two. Suki I guess tolerates it - she's never known life without Pickle and thats just 'how it is', but Pickle makes life difficult for...