we survived neighborhood trick or treating. 3- 4pm was great. 4:30-5 was a bit hectic - then we ducked into BK for dinner. Then bagged on watching the parade (side note - this is supposed to be a Children's Parade. It is the largest Children's Parade in NYC, but needless to say by 5pm some adults were in costumes that were totally in appropriate. For example, the orange jumpsuited "erectional facility" costume) and came home to play PS2. One friend was here until about 7pm and then another stopped by until 7:45. That never happens - I wish it would more often - I love kids coming to our place.

One really fun thing was two older residents in our building had trick or treat stuff and one, a couple, made the boys do a trick to get their treat. hilarious.

Sounds like it was a good afternoon/night, belle.

The vid of Beaker performing the "Ode to Joy" is even funnier while tipsy.

And that's considering it was pretty damned funny sober.

OK, cat people, I have a question: with MK's getting sick, they got him hooked on wet food. He eats maybe 4 oz of that a day and still has access to dry, but he's not plowing through it like he used to (presumably because he's filling up on wet.) He doesn't seem to be losing any more weight, but he's not regaining what he lost. Cats'll eat what they need, right?

I've just never done wetfood as primary before.

Wet food is a lot richer and more filling because it's so moist. Our first cat worried me because he drank so little water, but the vet said that was because of the wet food.

If he's not losing weight, I wouldn't worry yet.

Thanks. I've has cats all but the 4 years in college (that's 29 years!) but we've always used wetfood as supplements.

Of course, now I'm reading that many vets are saying that wetfood is now better! Oy.

I'm so damned paranoid now. Again.

Since he has dry food available I wouldn't worry. He'll eat if he's hungry.

When I was feeding wet and dry at the same time, Rosie would eat all the dry and Gilda would eat all the wet. Both cats were active and healthy but Rosie started getting a little chunky while Gilda stayed skinny. I adjusted to giving them the dry only after the wet was gone and their weights have evened out. Dry food just causes more weight gain than wet food.

Well, with MK, we just want him maintaining because of his diabetes: losing weight=bad. Gaining weight=bad. So when he's dropped because he's sick, no idea what is the norm. As it is now, he's dropped from 4 units insulin twice daily to 1 unit twice daily and we'll see.

Taz needed to eat wet food all the time because of his bladder thing, but we were finally able to get permission from the vet to get the corresponding C/D dry food, which he loooooves, because for so long it was forbidden fruit.

I just remember when we were at the shelter he would be wandering about cadging dry food from the other cats, heh.

Ooooh! As I write this, wedding pictures from bon bon are going up on her flickr page!

Ha! Those are the pictures that I found on my camera.

Tonight: faculty party and fancy-dress comedy show (?!). Because of the latter we're going to pretend we're "Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac" for the former.

In CA, the Secretary of State runs a statewide high school mock student election on the presidential races and on the propositions. The results are trickling in. [link]

If students ran things, Obama would kick ass and Prop 8 would be a no.