Someone tell me why I got another cat.

It seemed liked a good idea at the time?

Jesse, the key to all Alias enjoyment is to remember pretty people, things go boom! Also, don't ask for sense-making.

I liked the Saffron! moment - also the shout-out to the pilot ( Spy!Daddy magically appearing with the car -- in the nick of time. )

I'm just really bitter about the Red Cross for a wide variety of reasons.

There is a long history of reason for being bitter at the Red Cross. My Mom (83) remembers them charging soldiers on leave for donuts during WWII. (Not an urban myth; she volunteered at the Hollywood canteen and witnessed it.) Red Cross has huge bureucratic overhead. There were some scandals with tainted blood.

Also many people with Hemochromatosis need to be bled regularly to relieve them of excess iron . The Red Cross will not accept their blood, in spite of evidence that (so long as iron levels are tested for) their blood is medically indistinguishable from healthy donor. (Note that other blood centers will accept donations from people with Hemochromatosis .)

To be fair, the Red Cross can get into places other non-profits cannot and has saved the lives of many prisoners of war no one else could have. Also exposed the torture that is part of our administrations standard interrogation policy - in spite of claims of it being just a few bad apples.

ita, for you, on Lost HEADBUTT!!! ahem.

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Someone tell me why I got another cat.

Kitten face?

The Red Cross has it's problems and a lot of them can be attributed to a bureaucracy that makes the US government look streamlined. The big thing with a lot of getting what you need from the Red Cross is being aware of the rules and priming the pump. It's what I had to do when I was stationed in Spain and my brother was dying of cancer. Requests for emergency leave (which puts you highest priority on MAC flights) have to come from the Red Cross. But a family member can't just call them up and say, "send my relative home, soandso is dying." You have to have a signed statement from the attending doctor stating what the situation is. It has to be properly communicated from one Red Cross office to another. Don't follow the proper rules, you don't go home. My boss didn't give his family all this info and he didn't get home until after his father died. I gave my mother all the info, she followed the steps and I got to spend two weeks with my brother before he died. Pain in the ass, yes, but worth it.

I got a cat for all of the reasons, I suppose. There are too many of them out there that need homes. This one is just so much more evil than the last one. I waited a full year and a half after we lost Bogey so I wouldn't feel like I was trying to replace him.

We'll probably get another one when O's a little older and won't be so hard on a kitten.

Hec, I want to send you an email. Is profile addy ok?

Is profile addy ok?

Try hecubot@gmail.com

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