Sat 25 Nov 2006
3 Good Dots Saturday…
Starting off on a serious note: my sister Sandy in Michigan has a growth on one of her ovaries, and she hasn’t yet received the test results. It’s a long, painful wait for her and her husband John. We’re all hoping it’s benign and that surgery to get rid of it would also relieve her constant pain…
– Next, Mr. Kelly says: “To Franny Syufy, on behalf of myself and all the Good Cats (and my humans, who couldn’t have done it without us), thank you very much for your kind words and the honor of being your choice as About.com’s Cat Blog of the Week. I would say we are humbled by the honor, but we are cats and nothing humbles us.”
Thank you, Big Guy. We appreciate your honesty. And thank you, Franny — she’s been a mainstay at About.com for close to 10 years. All best to you and Asa, and your own 4 cats, Bubba, Jaspurr, Joey, and Billy.
– This morning, as a treat, Kelly and Caitie get “Baby chicken” (Beech-Nut baby food), while Nicky and Lizzie prefer stinky goodness. Here’s how mealtime goes at our house: Pat sets down Caitie’s dish in the family room, away from the greedy boys in the kitchen… and since Lizzie’s Cosequin is in her dish of S.G., Pat special-delivers the dish to where the torbie lies in the living room, then stands guard to make sure the boys don’t push Lizzie away.
While Pat is in the other room, Kelly walks away from the food remaining in his dish, and goes to Caitie’s dish, and Caitie walks away. Nicky then goes to Kelly’s dish and polishes off the last few bites of the Big Guy’s baby chicken. Nicky wants Lizzie’s dish too, but Pat won’t allow that.
Minutes later, Kelly returns to Nicky’s dish…then his own…and then Caitie’s…
– Memo to self: never go grocery shopping at Wegman’s early on a Sunday. Pat tells me that she was in Times Square one New Year’s Eve and it was incredibly crowded, but if it was more crowded than Wegman’s this past Sunday morning, then I don’t want to go there…
– Observation: cats can sense when their human needs to go somewhere, and nearly always will jump on their lap 5 minutes before then…
– For years, I’ve been using the freeware version of NoteTab as a text file editor instead of the Microsoft default program Notepad. It was easy to change the file association in Explorer so all .txt files opened in NoteTab. What wasn’t easy was making Internet Explorer’s view source command work with another editor than Notepad.
Googling turned up many possible answers, but the one in the link above seemed the safest and least demanding of my technical knowledge, so I downloaded TweakUI from Microsoft’s site and made the change as instructed. Success. Git ‘er done!
– Pat saw a sign for new house under construction that read: “Priced under the $210’s.” The editor in her immediately said, “What’s wrong with just plain ‘Priced under $210K’?”
– The numbers guy at the Wall Street Journal goes myth-busting, testing the often-quoted claim that a single female cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 cats over just seven years. His conclusion: that figure’s way too high, but get your animals spayed or neutered anyway…
– I think I’m going to try these things…
– Caitie’s BKP (Bad Kitty Pees outside the box) for the week: 2; one Friday morning, one Wednesday night.
– Speaking of Bad Kitties: On days when she watches granddaughter Diana, Pat opens the garage door very early and leaves it open until Diana’s father Jack arrives and brings her inside. This past Monday morning, Jack said that when he got here, there was a orange cat in the garage. Maybe that’s the one who keeps marking the Kelly Cat’s property. Of course, the orange cat’s owner should take responsibility for keeping it off other people’s property, but I only tell Kelly that it’s a Bad Kitty, and we don’t want Bad Kitties here, we only want Good Cats…
David said,
Sat 25 Nov 2006 at 22:11
We wish the best for your sister Sandy. It can be a bit overwhelming at first, but staying positive is the most important thing.
The supermarket is not a good place to be on a Sunday morning … anywhere.
The dish I stand watch over most of the time is Dino’s. The others are particularly interested in what each other is having at meal time. That’s why his eating station is in the dining room, living room, or any of the bedrooms (room service, please!).
Since you’re counting Caitie’s BKPs, she doesn’t want to disappoint you.
That’s the problem with MS … each time they “improve” Windows, they make it more complicated for users - in particular the home user.
Whew! I think I covered most of your topics.