Since George disappeared last month, Gracie's personality has changed. Before he left, she thought the cat door only worked one way -- when we'd throw her out in the garage, she could figure out how to get back in using the cat door. At my place, she was the cat that wanted out the most. When we moved them, the roles seemed to change. Now that ( Read more... )

There might be a link.

Please, go here and tell me if you are coming to dinner on Thursday.

My craftiness this weekend was seriously foiled. I spent most of the weekend ripping out the same skein trying to get my skirt project started. I couldn't get the count right for the life of me. Then I finally made some progress and finished the skein. I went to make a ball of the next hank and realized I had been using the wrong color all ( Read more... )

Maybe the real problem is that Europeans think women are not technical. Well, fsck you!

Grace just came in from outside with a live bird. I picked it up in a wash cloth and put it in the canyon across the street. It flew away the moment I took it out of the wash cloth, so I think it will be OK.

It's been a week tonight since he went missing. I really hate to conclude this, but he's probably dead.

George went out some time on Wednesday night after we went to sleep and hasn't come home since. While there are all these stories about cats surviving for a week outside (or longer...the feral cat at my old place stayed out for 1.5 year and only left when the person feeding her left.), but it's coyote country and coyotes like to eat cats. I'm ( Read more... )

My field of research is an abbreviation magnet. Since it covers two fields and both fields like to use abbreviations, some times my papers look like cleverly strung together abbreviations with plots. I know you aren't supposed to start sentences with an abbreviation technically. But! My two topics are usually only encountered as abbreviations ( Read more... )

I've never been a particularly good fighter in TKD and furthermore I don't really enjoy it. Sparring causes me so much stress about the only way to control it when I was in Boston was to fight all of the time. Compared to who I fight on an average basis these days -- men that out-weigh me, are a foot taller, and some of which are ground fighting ( Read more... )