Snyder ,'Empty Places'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I’d never heard of Ondine’s curse. How sad!
I love my weighted blanket and highly recommend.
Dog made it to 530am. And then after we went out, until about 630. Sigh. Why must I have a morning dog? (He doesn’t need to go out at 630–he just wants to be awake and have me be awake with him—if I’m brushing my teeth he will chill and wait, but if I’m still in bed he barks and whines and pokes his head on the bed until I’m up)
JZ's spicy brains are spicy!
Inanna seems to be fully recovered, but now she has discovered that we could be hand-feeding her broth from a dropper, so the expensive wet food is no longer good enough. Still, we are so very relieved.
If FSA covers weighted blankets, I believe everyone should have one.
Just got word a beloved high school teacher has died. No info on cause. He was 81 and a longtime smoker, so it is not as much of a gut punch as others, but still a punch. He was not on social media, so I had had no contact in years.
Awww, thanks for the kind words! It just entranced me how much all these doctors and scientists were entranced by it. I love that we are an animal that tells itself stories and comes to understand itself through the stories it tells.
For people with kitties, I once saw a book by a vet called "All My Patients Are Under The Bed".
I found an animal behavior consultant service in Reno for my mom and her cat; they've started doing all their consults via Zoom, and they noted on the info page that for cats their consults are more productive than ever, because back when they did home visits most of the time their clients would hide until they went away so they never got to see the behavior they were consulting on. Now, all the cats are totally used to their humans talking to the shiny pictures in their phones or laptops, so the cats just carry on as usual and the behaviorist gets to see the bad behavior in real time.
Because it deserves a separate post: msbelle, I am so sorry. Even when it's not a surprise, it's always sudden. And our most beloved teachers hold such a particular place in our hearts and our lives and who we become in all the years after.
No motivation today. None. Only motivation to eat cereal.
Fuck. Tim and his brothers got a message from their dad's assisted living community that their dad was exposed to someone with Covid. They didn't say who, so it could have been one of the people who drops off the meals (which is a very short amount of interaction time), but it could have been one of the staff that has longer visits (health checks and whatnot). And their dad is very resistant to wearing a mask (when he does wear one, he keeps pulling it under his nose), and I don't know much it's enforced at his facility. (I assume the rules are to strictly enforce mask wearing, but rules tend to fall apart in practice.)
He got a Covid test right away, so now we just have to wait for the results. Although depending on when he was exposed, he'll probably need to get another test in a week or two as well.
Fingers are crossed. He's physically pretty healthy for a man his age (no heart disease, no high blood pressure, no cancer, no lung disease, etc.), but he is 82, which is automatically high risk.
Hey guess who never cancelled homeowners insurance on the house she sold?
This girl!!
Luckily my insurance is refunding the overpayment!!! $1530.54!
Luckily my insurance is refunding the overpayment!!! $1530.54!
Right on!
Oh no Steph. It is a pain waiting. We get alerts from my parents’ retirement community every time they have a case or results from their standard testing.