I had to put Sprocket down today.  She was 13.5 months old.

She hadn't been eating for the better part of the week, and was very listless, would walk between 3 parts of the apartment and just lay there.  I dropped her off at the vet this morning, got a call 3 hours later saying that her abdomen was filled with fluid, and that her biliruibin levels ( Read more... )

Since both ( Read more... )

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Do I have everyone's attention?

OK.  If you can be in the Windsor, CT area on Thursday, January 31st please do so.  Why?

Please read this link, it's important

These kids have worked their asses off all semester.  And they care and represent the BEST of our future.  And the topic represents our duty as human beings.  Please come and learn what you can ( Read more... )

Saw this with N-man yesterday.  Short version: loved it.

First things first - I very much loved the first National Treasure.  It was a throughly unexpected joy - I saw it in the theater thinking it would be a sorta a stop gap until The Da Vinci Code hit the movies.  What ended up happening, though, was that I fell in love with N.T. and fell asleep ( Read more... )

No really - I'll post longer about it tomorrow, but really it's a phenomenal movie and the cast is awesome and it's a great movie and everyone should see but especially if you've read the book.  That is all (for now)

I just noticed that my userpics don't show up in the individual posts on my site...does anyone know if this is a setting I choose, or if this just is a function of the theme?  Cause it's gonna piss me off if I have to change the theme just to ensure that my uberfun userpics actually get displayed in the lj ( Read more... )

 To be fair I changed my display mostly because the other one was a bit too narrow for me...I was getting hella annoyed.  Thus a change was in order.

I swear to god I posted here with the full intention of having something to say and now I can't remember what I was going to say.  Damnit...I hate when that happens.  I feel a bit old.

On the other hand ( Read more... )

I'm not sure why I'm back here.  I'm not sure why I'm blogging again.  It seems I never quite have anything interesting enough to say to blog...that and I'm lazy about sitting down at my computer these days.  I'm hoping after I move it will be different...having the computer in an entirely different room from my bed seems to be EXCITING.  First ( Read more... )