Othello is home from the vet, and as I type this he’s enthusiastically chowing down on some Fancy Feast – of which I have quite a bit that I never intended to feed anyone after the Great Wet Cat Food Scare of a year or two ago. All these cans o’ Fancy Feast came as little samplers packed in with cat litter. Right now, they seem to be hitting the spot just fine, which is exactly what we need; due to the same aforementioned Cat Food Scare, we switched off to a regionally-produced brand of dry food – i.e. something that didn’t come from the same mills as 90% of the commercial brands – which Othello now shows no interest in. He now happily chows down on canned food while the other two are locked away temporarily, which drives the kitty kids nuts. Especially when I put his food away and he happily struts back into the baby’s room to lay down on my bed, smelling like canned cat food…which the other two can’t find. Good to be king, eh? But it’s even better that he’s eating. Now let’s see you pack on some pounds, skinny boy.
Got an Avid drive cable in yesterday, so I was able to try out the new Avid drives I got from eBay – remember, the ones that came clanking against each other in a priority mail box with absolutely no packing material whatsoever except for one flimsy piece of bubble wrap between the drives? – and to my astonishment, one of them was not DOA. The other one’s media was so damaged that it couldn’t even get one minute into a low level format. Say it again with me: dumbass! I wouldn’t even be going to the ‘bay for these except that I’m dealing with a slightly older generation of Avid gear. I’d have to buy a completely new setup to get the generation of Avid that uses firewire for everything, and I can guarantee you that I wouldn’t be getting that one for under $425 and a trip to Illinois. (To date, despite a motherboard replacement, three new drives, and new drive cables – which are all kinds of not cheap – I still have yet to sink $1,000 into my Avid.)
Neat stuff comes out of though. I’ll be sending out the next round of PDF DVD orders today or tomorrow, including the first international order (!) and orders from folks who I have no idea who in the world they are. As much as I appreciate my circle of friends picking up copies, the whole “total strangers buying my little DVD that I made” thing is kind of exciting.
Speaking of video games, I finally got Daphne working last night, and played my first game of Astron Belt in ages. I wish I’d accomplished that before the PDF DVD went out the door. 🙄 Ah well.
Glad to hear Othello is back home and chowing down! CowCat is 14 now and we say that as long as he has an appetite, he is doing pretty ok. If he ever doesn’t want food 23 out of the 24 hours in a day, then I am going to be worried!
Also glad to hear the DVD is picking up such traffic far and wide. Finally got my order in today. Yay! 🙂
It’s good to see that Othello has a strong appetite. What was the Vet’s prognosis? Hopefully it was nothing more than the cat wasn’t eating enough.
What kind of disk is inside that enclosure you just bought? SCSI? IDE? SATA? Either way I’m sure the DOA drive in the enclosure can be easily replaced.
I was about to ask what was the vet’s prognostic. I had a cat who stopped eating at one point and when we brought him to the vet, it turned out that he had a major case of gingivitis that kept him from eating. I guess it was an advanced case, since the vet decided to remove all of Tom’s teeth — after his gums healed, he was able to eat dry food again.
Glad to hear that Othello is doing good and will be fine! Phew!!!
Othello is most likely having an allergic reaction to some grass he ate during one of his and Oberon’s sorties outside. Remember the “Road to…” buddy movies? This was kinda like that, only starring Othello and Oberon, neither of whom were supposed to be outside. “The Road to the Side Deck where the lawn mowers are stored.” Speaking of which, since getting that prognosis, I got off my ass and did some serious mowing and weed-eating. His teeth are fine, and he’s still chowing down on Fancy Feast, slowly but surely, regaining his appetite little by little.
@ Ubik – Avid drives are SCSI based, at least the model that I’m using. I had a chat with the seller and he supposedly has another 73Gb Avid drive to offer as a replacement. I’d just like him to pad the damn thing this time. These Avid drives are built like tanks precisely because they do get deployed in broadcast trucks, etc.; but broadcast trucks have shock absorbers and mobile rackmount broadcast units have shock-resistant padding. They’re not subjected to the shock that you get from just sticking a bloody drive in an empty priority mail box with el zilcho padding. IMNSHO, that’s what went wrong with this drive – it was probably just fine before being shipped. I’m glad that the seller seems to seem reasonable about it. (It’s eBay, so I have to drop an extra layer of trust in there or I’d go mad.)
@ Atarigirl – thanks for the order! I just labeled it and put it on the pile of PDF DVDs going out tomorrow. 8-D Hope you enjoy!
Earl, if you have the labwork post it up and I’ll look at it (I am a DVM). It is good that your kitten is doing well.