Bertha

The Kitten Is Up for Adoption!

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Feb 252006
 

SAFE Haven has our kitten up on their website! They’ve named her “Nebula.”

On the home front, Phurball is consenting to eat his special-diet food again, now that there’s no longer another cat having better food right across the room. Perhaps his kidneys will last a few more years.

Better yet, he’s using the litter box again. We had a separate litter box for each cat, but the little cat decided she liked his better and Phurball refused to use it after she started going there. No one’s used that litter box since she left. Now I’ve dumped out all the old litter, scrubbed the box sparkly clean, and put in fresh new litter for him, and he’s started using that again. With my son’s help, I found the spot he had been using, scrubbed it down with white vinegar and used up the remainder of my Urine Gone on the area (great stuff, really works). Now the house no longer smells like cat piss.

 Posted by at 10:09 am

I Want Music!

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Feb 242006
 

Sometimes I download songs from walmart.com, but their selection really sucks. Buy.com doesn’t want my money because I don’t use Internet Explorer—guess they couldn’t afford a real web designer for their site. Itunes and Napster both want me to install their own proprietary software in order to download songs from them. MP3.com just sends me to other sites (none of which appear to actually have songs in .mp3 format).

I’d buy a lot more music if I could download them one at a time from someplace with a decent selection that just let me pay for the damn thing and download it, instead of insisting I install their own downloader/playback software first. Guess I’ll just stick to buying used CDs from the brick-and-mortar store up the road, unless someone reading this knows of a music site that will actually let me do what I want.

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
— Tim O’Reilly

 Posted by at 11:10 am

I Only Have One Cat. Really.

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Feb 212006
 

Last night my husband paused on his way out the door, looked over at me, and said “There is yet another cat on our porch wanting to come in.”

I went to look, and the young calico who lives up the street was sitting outside the door, looking expectantly up at us. When we didn’t open the door for her, she meowed politely to get her point across.

I swear, I’m a cat magnet.

 Posted by at 4:53 pm
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