OK, from my viewpoint the interview (for the web job) went splendidly - thank you all so much for the purrs, they seem to have worked. At the end of the interview he mentioned drawing up an offer letter and emailing it to me. He also said... 1. He could give me a raise in my current salary, they...

My older brother, Dan, was diagnosed with liver cancer in July :( By the time they made the diagnosis, it was too late for chemo or radiation. They gave him 3 to 6 months. But, it's been 6 months, and he's doing quite well. He went to a clinic in California, and is eating only organic food, and

Early summer, Bonnie started doing something weird with her nose. Snorty, hyperventilating, half-sneezy, sort of trying to blow something out her nose. She was also coughing, and that was right around the time someone posted a link to a video of a cat having an asthma attack. It almost looked like...

I've been fighting with my laptop for the last few days. Sometimes it won't boot (at all) and I'm sick of running system restore. I finally got it back up and ordered a new one. I may be gone for a few days while I swap it out and get the new one set up. In the meantime, purrs for all who...

I don't want a fence, but I need some way to keep my cats from straying and I"d like to start letting them out. Around $2300. That's two 25 foot fences with a 4' gate in each one. I was checking on cat containment systems but putting together a decent one would be around $700 and wouldn't allow...

The doorbell rings, and you have an absolute duty to get there first. So you stand up (you're on the sofa, of course), take a looooooooooong step from the sofa to the coffee table, hop from the table to the hassock, step from the hassock to the arm chair, hop to the bookshelf by the door. You now...

My cat Sundance can be a real hog at mealtime, so Rebecca has to be assertive about getting her share. I was watching them at dinner the other day. I give them their food in two dishes so they can each have one, but Sundance decided he wanted some of what Rebecca was eating (it's the same food!)...

I got this new warmup suit from my parents last Christmas but the pants were way too long, so I never wore it. Tonight I finally decided to hem the damn thing so I can use it. :) So I'm sitting on the floor with the pants on the floor and I'm starting to hem it with dark thread. By now Imp and...

I wonder if Persia will look different? LOL I'm sick of the optometrist not getting my prescription right. I'm sick of having to reach for glasses before I can stumble to the bathroom in the middle of the night. A few years ago my parents offered to pay for lasik surgery for me to have my vision...

Who says they don't get on? http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_arti cle_id=507365&in_page_id=1770 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3162659.ece (TW on that one) Daisy-dog is continuing to make good progress with 3 of the 4 feline residents here....

Roanoke Island Well, the supplies are starting to arrive. I've got the kits, under Sammy and Sgt. Huey's supervision loading the supplies into the hold. Later they will store them in the proper places. We learn a lot on each year's voyage, and one of the things we learned last year was to...

I try really hard to make things festive at home for Christmas even when I don't want to. Last year I bought this crèche from a seller on eBay who hand makes them. I have a nativity scene in cat characters, and baby Jesus is a kitten. Picture with the...

I published this on the Blog for the Mouser (link below): Well, it's that time of year again. We're here at the dock, all the pre-sailing work is done, supplies have been ordered to show up for next week and we're taking special orders for any extras. I've asked the fat wench to make a bunch of...

Miss Emily comes in, surprisingly free of grass burrs so that when I hug her, I don't get sharp pokies. After she has a little milk and a little food, she lays down in the bedroom clothes hamper. I head to the bathroom, and she stands up, her chubby little paws on the rim of the hamper, and...

Yes, it's still a couple of weeks before the big Daylight Savings Time switch, which I think is the first Sunday in November. We get an extra hour to sleep, depending on how we feed the kitties. Those of us who cleverly have the cats trained to eat when the slave is good and ready to feed them have...

Ya'll remember my sad story about having no air conditioning. It is going to be a couple of weeks before we can get a unit installed. Today, I decided I couldn't take it anymore, and decided to go buy a small window unit for the bedroom for a temporary fix. They're pretty cheap, and I figured I...

Sasha is doing well and he blood work on Thursday showed her BUN to be down to 53. Dr and I both were very happy to see that. He reduced her fluids to 100ml every other day and after this bag is finished I am bringing her in for another test to see how she did with the lower amount. He emphasized...

I'm totally exhausted but i am 85% moved out of my old place. All the furniture got in the new place yesterday and last evening i brought the kitties. Mayhem yowled the WHOLE way, Mischief whined, and Imp curled into a ball in an attempt to become invisible. Once in the new place, we went into...

Hi all, I was here a few months ago and was posting semi-regularly. I dropped off the radar as we were moving back to the US. We are finally here...without the furniture, but that's okay. It'll show up one of these days. Anyways...a Willow update. In January I was quite concerned because of...

Hi everyone It's nice to be back. The furballs had a splendid Xmas, Sarrasine unwrapped her own Xmas present 2 days before the big one. She didn't manage to get the toy off the backing through so she threw it in my lap for me to do it! Redunzel got her own roll of toilet paper when we had enough...