Create friends filters that have actual friends on one, and RSS feeds in the other. Then go to each filtered flist page and bookmark it. When you go to the bookmarked page, it shows you the updates.

Oh, I know, but I just like to click my friends list. I don't mean that to sound cranky at you, Andi. Thank you for the suggestion. I just want the world to bow to my whims. Also, I want LJ to stop calling the Friends List a "Friends" list. I want them to call it a reading list.

Finally, I want a pony.

Andi, I think you are the opposite of Houdini, for cats. I'd need 5 arms to do what you just said. Good luck, Fay!

I want the world to bow to my whims also.

I'd say to send Six Apart a note or two along those lines for their development work on Vox, but who knows if that would get any traction.

Crap. I need to do ironing and polish my shoes and pack a box to mail to my niece, and now all I want to do is go redesign the CSS on my LJ.

I'd say to send Six Apart a note or two along those lines for their development work on Vox, but who knows if that would get any traction.

What is this VOX thing, anyhow? I saw someone yesterday mention it, but I don't think I was on my own friends list, and was too shy to say anything.

Up ending the crate makes it easier. I haven't had to do that sort of thing in ages. . . can't remember if tail-end first or head-in first is easier.

In non-feline news Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban got married this weekend.

Tail-end in first with the up-ended crate is easier. Also, Fay, the familiar/loved item has the added feature of providing a little comfort the whole time the cat's in the carrier. We use a bit of carpet that Legion likes, and it also keeps the carrier floor soft. Several of my friends swear by this feline pheromone spray for long carrier travel also.

And yeah, we put a puppy pad under a plastic grid on the carrier bottom for flights, but he's never once used it, not even on the 17-hour flight from Malaysia.

What is this VOX thing, anyhow?

Sounds like it should be a Skype deal, but it's Six Apart's new "LiveJournal for adults." (Since they are convinced that only teenage girls use LJ.) I looked at it, but couldn't tell much at this point; some folks are saying it's too much like MySpace.

This is my way of getting the cat in the carrier.

Lean the carrier on end against a wall, do this when the cat can't see what is going on.

Tempt the cat into the same room with treats. Grab the cat, holding his front legs together in one hand and back legs together in the other, pressing his body against yours. The idea is to immoblize the cat as much as possible so there's less flailing and chance of being scratched. Carry him over to the carrier, and using your legs brace the carrier against the wall. Then shove the cat in the carrier, tail first,and make sure his back legs get past the lip of the carrier (so there's less to fight against). Let go of his back legs, and use that hand to sort of shove him down more and close the door with your free hand.

Set the carrier on its side and toss some treats in.

Jeez, LJ, like I don't feel arrested enough. In the not- Mirandizable sense. But at least in that sense I'd be better off once my lawyer showed up.

I don't know what Skype is, but I do often feel like any corner of LJ that isn't my little corner is all teenagers, or freaks that aren't-like-my-kind-of-freaky-freaks.

I'm really MySpace averse. There are people who use it, whose writing I like to read, but I just can't stay there for very long. The random musical assaults and dark screens are just too much.

UGH! UGH! UGH! UGH! UGH!

My landlord does not understand what it means to ASK before she makes an appointment to show the apartment. She also doesn't seem to understand what 24-hours notice is. I'm so frustrated right now that I could scream. As a matter of fact, I did scream. At my poor dad.