I think you meant this for me, thank you, and I really do wish I could get a vet to come to our home. We are in a very rural area and the only mobile vet in the area who treats small animals has stopped doing home visits due to the plague. Kitty had a pretty good day today. His belly is starting to fill with fluid so his appetite is off. Treats and more treats for the rest of his life. Our other cats are going to look like short legged furry bowling balls pretty soon because they are hoovering up all the treats Kitty snubs.
We’ve had cats all of our lives. We know all about kitty hospice. We also know that kitty will tell us when its time, we just have to listen lest we keep them too long due to selfishness.
I appreciate the sympathy. This isn’t unexpected, but it seriously sucks. The furry little jerks just don’t live long enough.
I enjoy playing the game “Words With Friends” online. They have a “chat” box which I might occasionally use to make a comment with my actual friends, or even with people known only to me through Facebook. I can also receive invitations to play the game with total strangers. I usually accept those, and have multiple games going at once. I prefer not to make conversation with people I don’t know.
I just ignore such comments as “Hello my beautiful lady” and “How are you enjoying the game.” I can’t resist looking at the comments though, which requires one click of the mouse.
I just get annoyed with people who persist in trying to engage me in conversation with repeated entreaties like “Why you no talk to me” and “I want us to be friends and chat.”
I am probably being rude by not at least replying hello but I do not want to chat! If I wanted to chat, I have plenty of real life friends who I can send text messages or pick up the phone and actually talk to!
Weird. I’ve used TurboTax for years. I got my second “stimulus” (under $200) on January 1st. Which was amazing, since the FIRST one was on one of those damned cards instead of direct deposit.
Much sympathy to those of you who have sick/dying pets, especially when you have to make agonizing decisions. Been there so many times. But I’m lucky this time around. My beloved Vienna hasn’t had a sick day in her 14+ years. Fingers crossed.
I’ve used Turbo Tax since about 2001. I got both of my stimulus checks via direct deposit on the first or second day that they were to be distributed. I have always purchased the desktop version of TT.
Huh, we used paid-for TurboTax. Assumed we might have to wait, but Thursday my wife called from the kitchen “Hey, we got our stimulus money! It’s sitting in my checking account!”
So another anti-rant, I guess. It’ll just about cover a quarter of our property tax… sigh…
Dyson vacuum cleaners are overpriced, pretentious pieces of shit. The thing had always been quick to clog, but tonight I found that the reason it’s stopped picking up this time is a worn internal hose (not the easily replaceable one with the red clips).
Now I’ve got an effectively dead vacuum and a pile of dirt in the middle of the living room floor.
Phoo. Heading to 38° today (celsius - about 101° F). Yesterday it hit about 36°. We knew that theA/C part of the split-system unit wasn’t cooling, and emailed the leasing agency last week…while the office was closed over the holidays.
Called them today, the first day they’ve been open…and they said they’d put it on to the maintenance department, and contact us later today. Apparently they’ve set up a new system for maintenance requests; I don’t think they saw the email.
Since we don’t need the A/C for medical reasons, they don’t consider it an emergency. At least today it’s pretty cloudy and windy, so it’s more bearable than yesterday. Now we’ll see what happens first; a cool change, or someone coming out to replace it (sounds like a motor is packing it in). I’m not laying any bets on the latter.
If you’re feeling lonely without the attentions of advertisers, I suggest you make a purchase from an online glasses seller. I am being deluged by ads not only from that company but from a bunch of their competitors. News flash: the excitement of buying glasses does not mean I’m going on a wild spending spree so that I can have a different pair for every day of the week.
Note to Facebook: hiding an ad from a shyster lawyer firm urging me to sue over imaginary Roundup or Zantac damages shouldn’t result in a flood of similar ads.*
*gotta love the options Facebook gives you as reasons for why you don’t want to see ads. Which is better: “irrelevant” or “knows too much”? For political ads, I generally select “already purchased”.
Even those of us in the tundra feel for you. I mean, we can put on layers and start a fire. Not much you can do when you’re sweating with no A/C (and standing with your head in the freezer is not energy-efficient).
I always choose “irrelevant” on the assumption that whatever ad selection algorithm they’re using will assume that whatever product/service is being offered is something that is of no interest to me. Presumably, this will eventually reduce the number of ads I see because there’s no point in showing me, for example, sports-related ads if they are irrelevant to me.
It’s probably a vain hope, but I figure the less info I give them, the better.
Anti-rant: After three months of floor poops I’ve finally found a cat litter that meets the standards of Empress Samantha the Extremely Picky. She’s pooped in the box twice today!
Rant: She got her ultrasound on December 31 and I still haven’t heard back from the vet about her results. Granted, there was a holiday and an insurrection since then.
The thing had always been quick to clog, but tonight I found that the reason it’s stopped picking up this time is a worn internal hose (not the easily replaceable one with the red clips).