Eight Lives Left

I’m just about all packed for the trip to BTR tomorrow. I have some chores and errands to do in the morning and then I’ll drive to my sister’s house for 1:30pm and we’ll leave for the airport at 2pm. It’s not a very long visit; I’ll be back Sunday night and I’m glad. Going to BTR is always slightly stressful.

Tomorrow I need to take out the garbage and clean the cat box and put fresh sheets on the bed and run to the fancy pet food store to find new gooshy fudz for the kitties. Noke’s gotten awfully thin and I think she’s not liking what I’m feeding them, so I’m going to find a different sort of cat food. They have a lot of different things there that are really high quality without all the additive crap, so I think I should be able to find something appetizing for them. Poor hungry kitty. I don’t like seeing her so skinny.

My Kindle is all charged up and it’s the only book I’m bringing on the trip. My parents said that Verizon was putting up a new cell tower near their house, so maybe my BlackBerry will actually work while I’m there. If not I can always check email on their computer, but I’d much rather be able to do it from my BB and not have to worry about logging out and browsing history and crap like that. It’s bad enough my mom has a Facebook account now!

Things are copacetic. No complaints here. I hope everyone is doing well!

Kitty in the sun

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I got up early this morning to go vaccinate five kittens and then to help G out with his move. The moving bit took a long time and I was very glad to leave when it was mostly done. I moved all the delicate computer equipment and his keyboard in my Jeep, and then made sure he was all setup with the moving guys bringing stuff into his new place before going. I picked up a sandwich at Subway for lunch, and now I’m thinking about taking a bit of a nap.

Tomorrow is going to be work and chores and getting ready for the trip to BTR. I need to get a pedicure, too. So much to do!

I got back from my sister’s house about two hours ago. My niece and nephew wore me out, and I didn’t sleep well at all without kitties, so it was good to get home. I’ve had a hot bath and I’m pondering a nap before I see L/L tonight.

Tomorrow’s going to be busy. I have to vaccinate a litter of five kittens in the morning at 9am, and then I’m going out to Arlington to help my friend G move to his new 450k condo. We’ll be loading all his computer equipment and his keyboard into my Jeep to make sure they get there safe. I’m not really looking forward to moving stuff, but it’s the kind of thing you do when people ask, so.

I’m slogging my way through War and Peace, on my Kindle. I love everything I’ve ever read by Tolstoy, but I’m finding this one hard going. When he starts going on about the war of 1812 and in particular the French invasion of Russia he starts to lose me. It’s odd, because normally I love stuff like that, but somehow the way he’s doing it this time around doesn’t grab me. I’m sticking with it, though, since other parts of it are enjoyable and I want to be able to say that I’ve read it at least once. I only just started Volume III, so I’ve got a ways to go. One thing that annoys me about the Kindle is that it doesn’t tell you what page you’re on in terms of the actual printed version of the book you’re reading. It would be easier for me to gauge where I’m at and when I’ll catch up to D (who’s reading the same edition of War and Peace as I am).

I think I’ll go climb into bed with Mr. T (as D likes to refer to Tolstoy), and see if a nap is in order. I’m sure the kitties will agree it’s a good idea.

Look! Two journal posts in two days! I’m on a roll!

I’ve been really busy and involved in other things and I realize this journal has fallen by the wayside. I don’t know whether to keep it up or not. Do the few of you who check here really want blow-by-blows of my daily boring stuff? I used to like writing about it just for my own enjoyment. Not sure what’s up with it not being so much the case anymore. Probably nothing.

So, what’s been going on?

I’m still volunteering for FoHA, and what with it being summer and all that means kittens to vaccinate and adoption shows. I recently trained to start volunteering two hours a week at the local library. Shelving books, yum! I walk on Mondays for the condo development’s Neighborhood Watch program. I might pick up one more volunteer thing, something for the county probably, but I haven’t looked closely yet at what’s available.

Work has been boring. I looked for another position within the company at my current site, but there’s not a whole lot right now that I’m really qualified for. I’ll keep checking. It’s a huge campus and new jobs are coming up all the time. It might be time to make a move, dunno. (How many times have I said that over the past 9 years? Heh.)

Kitties are doing fine, for which I am grateful. I’m down about 27 pounds, for which I am also grateful. The process is slow but it does seem reasonably steady. My blackouts seem to have gotten better. My blood pressure is down. I have less pain in my knees. All positive things, yes?

I’ve been spending a lot of time on WoW lately, too. The new guild is really enjoyable and so I spend more time there since I get good conversation and have a lot of fun, and get to do new things.

The cleaning crew is coming today to clean up my condo. Afterwards I’m going to drive into DC to babysit my niece and nephew tonight and most of tomorrow.

Things are good. I’m just toodling along doing my thing and enjoying myself. I hope everyone is doing well!

Adopt us!

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Aren’t they cute? The black one is called Hercules.
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Wyatt

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This is Wyatt at the FoHA Adoption Day. He needs a forever home! I can tell you from personal experience that he gives good hugs.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There has rarely been a better time than now to blend your fresh sparkly innocence and your deep ancient wisdom. The childlike aspects of your intelligence are especially available, and so are the visionary elements. Furthermore, the two have a great potential to complement and enhance each other. You might be amazed at how dramatically you could transform long-standing problems by invoking this dynamic tandem of energies.

Child-like aspects of my intelligence? Is he referring to my delight in fart jokes?

I am burned by the stupid.

Yesterday I moved my main toon on WoW from the small friends/family guild that I’d had her in, to a larger casual raiding guild. I did this because I was having personality conflicts with the guildmaster and I was finding myself switching to alts or even logging off to avoid having to deal with someone who is, well, cranky a lot. I wanted to keep this low drama, so once my transfer came through I sent out a note to the guild email list that said essentially “My main has moved to this new guild, but my alts are staying here and I’ll continue to run dungeons with everyone on my main and put good stuff into the guild bank and just generally be the same supportive person I’ve always been.” No drama, no finger-pointing, no flouncing.

This evening I logged into one of my alts that had some goodies to put in the guild bank, only to discover that all of my bank access, every single bit of it, had been yanked. Now, I expected to have my access lowered. That only makes sense since I have only alts there and not my main. But to find that all access had been pulled, even my ability to deposit stuff, was really surprising. Although I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, knowing who did it. I just find it incredibly childish, though. I understand being annoyed and maybe a little hurt that I moved my main toon somewhere else, but to stop speaking to me and do silly things like yank my bank access? I dunno. It just didn’t occur to me that that would happen.

Mind you, I farmed my ass off to donate upwards of 5350 gold for buying bank tabs, and I make an effort to keep the bank stocked with certain exotic items and meats for cooking and such. It’s not like I didn’t have a history of being responsible with it. And that’s really not the point anyway, because I didn’t expect to keep my uber-access with the ability to take anything and everything out. I just expected to be dropped down to normal alt access, which is the ability to put things in and to get certain lower value materials out and the big stuff is unavailable.

I’m peeved, and I’m writing this out partially to process it so I don’t do anything stupid. I almost sent a snarky email to the guild list about how I can’t deposit good items if I can’t even see the frickin’ bank tabs, but I stopped myself. A mutual friend pointed out that everyone is a little hurt about it, and that maybe I should have given a little warning before going. And he’s right, on both counts. I should have given a warning, but I just didn’t think it would be that huge of a deal. So that’s my bad.

Anyway, I decided I would just use the in-game mail to send the bank items I had to the GM so he could deposit them for me. Just because he’s being a wank doesn’t mean I don’t intend to continue supporting the guild just as I said I would. I don’t want drama. I don’t have time for drama. I have no inclination for drama. I just wanted to get away from the person who was causing me to enjoy the game less without burning bridges or being an asshole about it.

Two of my friends who read here (hi there!) will probably come over with their mains to the new guild as well. I did NOT ask them to come. They both were thinking about leaving before I made this move, and since we all know each other real time it makes sense for them to come where my main is. But of course I’ll get tarnished as stealing people from the old guild.

People make me tired, sometimes.

But, see? I had some drama and I got this journal entry out of it. I’m right, aren’t I? Macaroni makes for good journals.

Roflcopter overhead.