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Fuzzball recuperation update

Looks like everything is back to normal:
Othello and Olivia
Though he spent her first 36 or so hours back home hissing at her, Othello has now resumed his post as both guardian and pesterer of the kitten. (A warning for you Livejournal people: I post a lot of pet pictures. I mean, a lot. You have been warned.) Here I caught him red-handed, grooming her face. For the first day or so after she came home from the vet, Olivia’s body did have a chemical smell to it, and she cleaned herself obsessively during that time too, so I’m sure she knew it was there. I’m just glad that inter-feline relations are back to normal.… Read more

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Rewiring the kitten

Othello, moping.So yesterday Olivia went to the vet to get “fixed.” (I didn’t really think she was broken.) At the same time, she’s also being front declawed – she’s not going to be an outside kitty, and besides, every other living creature she shares space with can offer a testament to how careless she can be with her claws. In other words: we’re not doing anything to her that hadn’t already been done to Othello, Iago or Chloe. Still, it’s amazing how much the mood of the whole household plunged overnight without her here. Othello moped around the house listlessly. Xena whimpered and whined because she hadn’t seen her new best friend pop up in any of the windows to say hi. And yeah, the humans in the household moped too.
Getting her to go certainly wasn’t easy – she already had other plans, such as playing with the drain plug in my bathtub:
Olivia plays in the bathtub (water not included)
When she figured out why we were trying to catch her, she went into hiding:
Hide, Olivia!
But she couldn’t get away…
Hide, Olivia!
I look forward to her return today. That way we can all stop moping.… Read more

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How much are these kitties in the window

My cats evidently sense that I need a morale boost – when I was leaving the house to go to work, they were both waiting in the window to see me off.
Othello & Olivia
I then proceeded to make myself quite late for work by sticking around to take their pictures.
Othello & Olivia
I also spent a lot of time trying to get Xena to sit still right underneath that window so I could have a family portrait that I didn’t have to photoshop together, but alas, it didn’t work out that way. (You can see her reflection in the picture above though.)
Othello & Olivia
I just wanted to call in sick, go back inside and soak up some kitty kisses. Now if only I could figure out how to get paid for doing that…… Read more

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Cooking With Code Critters

We interrupt this blawg…

Apologies for not having much to say recently; I’m launching a fairly major new feature on the site next weekend, so just about all of my spare time this week is devoted to that, to say nothing of getting the rest of the usual features ready (gotta do something cool to celebrate Star Trek’s 40th birthday, mind you). You probably noticed that the site went into “reruns” during August (mainly because there was simply no way I could do new features, continue to work on the aforementioned major new part of the site, and get ready for OVGE all at the same time; in the end, it turns out I was only able to accomplish one out of the three).
Olivia says ZZZZZzzzzzzzzOlivia’s going to be spending the night at the vet one night next week – she’s being rewired and front declawed. She hasn’t even gone into her first heat yet, so that’s a good thing. I remember how Othello and Iago used to act before they got fixed when they’d get “frustrated” – it wasn’t pretty and cost me at least one apartment deposit. Hopefully our li’l kitten will pull through this with a minimum of pain and inconvenience. She truly is the #1 source of joy in our household right now, so we’re understandably apprehensive about her going under the knife.… Read more

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Othello has the power. And he’s not giving it back.

Othello takes a power nap
So I’m trying to hurry up and update the web site so I can go to bed, and then…poof. The PC loses power. Not the whole room. Just the PC. I look up for a telltale red LED on another piece of equipment, which is plugged into a power strip in the socket just below the socket where my computers’ heavy-duty surge protector is plugged in. That light’s on, so I haven’t just blown a fuse. Both power strips are plugged in. I get down on my hands and knees, getting really worried.
Then I find the cause of the problem. Othello’s taking a “power nap” – right on top of my heavy-duty surge protector. Apparently he moved his paw and literally hit the switch to turn the thing off.
I shouldn’t be too surprised – he can also hit the master reset switch on my alarm clock if it starts beeping and annoying him. The fact that I need to go to work is apparently unimportant. 😆… Read more