Please, somebody, speed up this day! I don't know how long I can hold out! I'm Ms. MouthBreather McSicky over here, and all I want to do is sleep!

I would also like to sleep. At night would be better than the current system, but I'm not going to be picky at this point.

On a completely different note, how is it that people in the Bay Area have not figured out that if you are driving at freeway speeds, and cars start disappearing into the fog after about 50 feet or so, it's time to turn your fricking lights on?

On a completely different note, how is it that people in the Bay Area have not figured out that if you are driving at freeway speeds, and cars start disappearing into the fog after about 50 feet or so, it's time to turn your fricking lights on?

'Cause California drivers are, like, the worst ever?

I know the conversation moved on long ago, but I was offline for several days (errands plus 2 sick days for respiratory ick) and just saw while zipping through so fast that it can barely be called skimming --

Many sympathies on your cat, Gloomcookie. It's hard to get a cat in late stage kidney failure to eat. What we did with Teddy was to get a large number of types of food -- moists, drys, baby food, even special ordered a calf's kidney from a grocery store. And whatever he ate, we'd give him more of. For a while, we were giving him what Hubs called "smorgasbord" because it was little dabs of half a dozen things at once.

Admittedly, this approach works a little better if you have another cat(s) that will eat whatever the sick cat won't eat.

'Cause California drivers are, like, the worst ever?

Wait. You've lived in Massachusetts, right?

Wait. You've lived in Massachusetts, right?

Among other things, I have driven regularly in Boston and NYC.

I'd rather spend an eternity driving around the Arc de Triomphe than keep dealing with drivers here in CA.

That blog is so freaking hysterical.

Boston drivers are insane, but they pay attention to the road. This wins them many many many points over the polite-but-clueless driving one encounters in CA. (Or the rude and clueless driving one encounters on the DC Beltway.)

Thanks, Fred. I've been trying all kinds of things and she seems excited at first but quickly loses interest. She liked ground turkey and baby food the first couple of times, but now won't eat it. I'm going to keep trying different stuff. She is such a little bag of bones, it's sad-making. But she still purrs and likes cuddles and jumps, so we're not done yet. Poor Jo!

Meh. I went to Au Bon Pain to get lunch, because I wanted soup. They didn't have any kind I wanted! So I ended up with a chef salad, which is fine, but exactly cozy on this freezing day.