My company announced a week ago that they will be closing their doors - so as of this Friday I will be out of a job (and Friday will be my last pay check since they don't "hold back" a week or two). After everything we've been through we don't have any "cushion" in our finances. Being the main...

"I had my surgery last Thursday and am now out of hospital. I'm staying at my aunt's until Friday then a return home to take things very steadily. The operation went according to plan although the surgeon said there is a 50% chance that the hernia will recur :-( On a lighter note, now I can walk...

I've checked "help" under Control Panel. Someone here pointed me in the right direction but I didn't understand it before. As of some time yesterday I lost all sound on my XP (home edition) PC. I've checked all the connections, everything looks fine. I didn't change anything that I am aware of....

2 new pics of Vino available he http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson/Vino They are the last 2 in the album. In the last one you can see another example of Vino's obsession with jeans. He's a happy camper now that fall is coming and I am wearing them again. I can't even lay them out on the...

I had a bowl of Thai green curry for dinner. It was quite spicy in and of itself, but there were some large pieces of red chili in it and by the end of the bowl my mouth was burning and I decided not to eat the last 2 pieces of chili. As soon as I put the bowl aside, Vino jumped up on the table...

I've just installed Skype and am having a lot of fun with it. With broadband it is all so simple :) We have good friends in Brisbane (x New Zealanders) and it is good to be able to talk with them at no cost. We now have video cams as well so that we can view as well as talk. I was...

/rant on Persia didn't notice him/her otherwise I'd have had a cat doing the bottle-brush tail and arched back while hissing on my hands. A patchy orange & white kitty came up to the (open with screen on) window in my office and peered inside. Short haired but otherwise looking much like Spotty...

She was sitting next to me and crying. She almost never gets on my bed, instead preferring to sleep in her special chair in another room, away from Eli (who always sleeps with me). But this time she needed me to take care of her poopy-butt klingon. Of course she left one poopy-butt klingon stain...

I have not been able to read newsgroup messages in my usual way for three or four days. So, I'm posting through Google until I get things sorted out. Purrs and prayers to all need. Annie

Why has it taken me 6 years to realize cats have flippy tails? Maybe I'm totally unversed about this. I watched Persia drinking from her Drinkwell fountain today and her tail was flipping back and forth, slowly. Not lashing; she wasn't angry, she was content. It just went flip, flop,...

I started a new photo album at Yahoo. It shows Rob, the cats, the changes in the house, and so forth. I will be adding to it as I can. http://tinyurl.com/2vtdcd Pam S.

First, Sam asked about Loki. He's a spitz. Has a thick, double coat like an eskimo dog...impervious to the cold...kind of a mess right now because I've chopped off some of his ruff so his bark collar will work, and some of his back end so he doesn't run around with dingleberries. :) He needs to...

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2007/03/30/624089.html&cvqh=itn_petfood or tiny URL http://tinyurl.com/29vmhj So far Persia's Hills Science Diet x/d hasn't been affected. I just got her 2 bags of food last month and she's happy and healthy. This whole thing is scary.

Sorry I haven't updated recently, but things have been a bit busy here. Our drive from CA to IA was fairly uneventful, and we got into Grinnell, IA on Friday. The place we rented turned out to be way smaller than we expected (yes, we rented it sight-unseen), so we put 3/4 of our stuff into...

Got an email from one of my kitties last night which I thought was cute enough to share. The photo's were lovey as well. I have had a week in my new home with Natasha now. I just wanted to write you a note to say how I am doing.

http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_newsalert033007#1 Since Menu Foods, Inc. announced its massive pet food recall on March 16, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center has been flooded with calls from pet parents and animal welfare professionals alike. Based on data from these...

One of the most interesting places in New Zealand is the Albatross colony at Taiaroa Heads, in the South Island of the country. At the moment they have a webcam on one of the chicks http://www.albatross.org.nz Bev -- -- The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.

It's raised a couple of inches off the floor and it has a decorative shaped front on it... it's easy for the girls to bat their toys underneath the curved opening, but not nearly so easy for them to fetch them out again! Every so often I sweep the long metal ruler underneath it and see what I can...

I want to alert you all to atpotential terrible scam I have come across (along with a disturbing revelation about Ketzl.) Today Ketzl got an e-mail (seriously! It was addressed to him) from Chase Bank alerting him to the probability that his account at Chase had been compromised! (I didn't...

My niece visited the other day and took pictures of the cats enjoying themselves in the enclosu http://www.flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/ She also brought me some of her home-made Karelian pirogi (pictures of those after the cat pics) - yum! -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving...