Baby, our 18yo kitty is sick. She has a bladder infection and it looks like she's going into kidney failure. We're administering subcutaneous fluids once a day and antibiotics twice a day, and are going back to the vet in 2 weeks. They'll recheck her blood then and we'll know whether she's starting to bounce back or if it's unlikely she's going to ( Read more... )

One of my New Year's Resolutions this year was to meditate twice a day for 20 minutes. I've kept it up, but now I take weekends off. I think that helps ward off the frustration of not being able to do something that seems so simple: keeping my attention on my breath ( Read more... )

I had an intraweb friend stop by over the weekend as he was flying into Phoenix to drive up to Sedona. Kathy and I took him to Garcia's, home of the f01n3st fried ice cream I've ever had. Then we hit Castles and Coasters, an arcade/miniature golf course/amusement park/fish hatchery and partook in meeting and shooting all sorts of varied and ( Read more... )

A couple of times I found Puffy, our younger spazzy cat, dangling from the second shelf of our cupboard, little feet kicking away at the air trying to get traction. She was right above the crock pot one time. If she'd have come down on it, she could've broken her back. So, it's come to this. Child safety locks ( Read more... )

Things are better. I got past it. She's promised it won't happen again, and I believe her ( Read more... )

Still feeling a bit down today. My ego's bruised and I'm having a hard time getting past this. Kathy had flowers waiting for me when I woke up which was nice of her. I'm hoping time will fix things.

I'm a bit down. Kathy revealed to me that she's had a crush on somebody at work for about 3 weeks now. He's basically a flirt and has given her attention and *grumble* 4 or 5 backrubs. She liked the attention so didn't tell me about it. It went on 3 weeks or so until his flirting compass pointed elsewhere and then suddenly Kathy tells me, once he's ( Read more... )

I got us a big screen relatively cheaply. I've named it Betty. I love Betty. Been playing my Playstation 2 I got for Xmas on Betty. Nothing like having a Katamari as big as a beachball bouncing around in front of you. Between Betty and our pinball machine (Hector), it's a good thing we're moving into a bigger place here soon. We're gonna shoot for ( Read more... )

Kathy just read me Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted. It's a series of connected short stories. Fun read, just like Fight Club. I especially liked Guts, which is the story that made no less than 75 people pass out around the country as he read it on the book tour. I've known about the infamous story for awhile now, since watching the Palahniuk writing ( Read more... )

Things are good. We're looking to move into a bigger place in January/February, so that should be nice. I'm trying to save money for it, but Xmas spending is bankrupting me yet again. Despite our family agreeing to keep spending down this year, when all's said and done, it's going to be about $650 I spent. Crazy. There was a large item gift in ( Read more... )