Thanks! Fingers crossed that the garage can figure it out and fix it quickly.
One of my cats, Mischief, has not been looking well for the past month or so; he’s been losing weight but has been eating. (In fact, he seems to be eating most of the canned food I put out for both him and brother.) This morning I took him to the vet for examination and tests. It also turned out that he has a bit of a fever (104) so the vet gave him an antibiotic shot and gave me a supply to give him twice a day for the next ten days. I’ll be getting the test results tomorrow.
Sounds like how our hyperthyroid cat acted before we started treating him. He did very well on meds for a few more years. Most maintenance drugs for people were tested on cats first so check to see if Mischief can have people meds, which will cost way less.
Hopefully I am wrong and Mischief just has a little bladder infection or something like that.
Seconded.
Unpopular Opinion: Cats are like an expensive bottle of wine you get as a gift. People will say, “it’s too young… wait just wait.” And you’ll rip up your arms a lot reaching into the rack to pull it out and turn it over once in a while. Someday, it will seem so absolutely mellowed and perfect that the perfect pairing is actually You.
But wine doesn’t last forever and sometime around the 20 year mark, you will open that bottle… perfectly aged… and you will enjoy every moment with it.
And, when it is empty and gone, you will miss it so much that you will cry.
You just made me cry.
Sigh. New Year’s eve is upon us. Another year looming:
Shouting “Happy New Year” at midnight is no longer enough. Tonight will be when all the ****s shoot their guns in the air, light firecrackers beginning at 11:00 and going for at least the next two hours, and generally making “sonic skunks” of themselves.
And too many of those that shoot guns will use live ammunition. They couldn’t even take the time to purchase blanks.
Finally: it looks like the COVID spike will continue; too many people have decided to party during the holiday season - despite the situation at ER’s
I live in a county of 30,000 people. We are a ski holiday destination. And people are on holiday, clogging the roads as usual. Grocery and liquor stores packed to the gills. Our ‘population’ triples during the Christmas holiday.
Many have canceled other vacation activities due to travel problems and do the drive up to the mountains. So I think it’s worse than usual.
And as I expected, our COVID numbers have gone through the roof. From an average of ~ 50 a week to over 700.
My Wife and I are lucky as we live remote (my Wife calls it the illusion of seclusion) but we are happy hanging out at home. We still have to run into town for stuff though.
This is going to sound selfish, but when COVID first struck the roads where empty. It was great. I’m really looking forward to having the Christmas/New Years holiday over with.
That’s not being selfish. That’s finding a positive in a really shitty situation. I too enjoyed that aspect of the early pandemic, especially since I was declared essential pretty quickly and still had to go to the office.
New spam call - a nice man with just a hint of an Indian accent called from the orthopedic clinic, and assured me that he could fix my knee and back pain that he knew I was having.
Yes they do. I got a bullet hole in my roof that way.
It took a while to connect the dots, but I heard a knock on my roof and the next day found no evidence of what I thought would be a spent skyrocket. It wasn’t until a few months later that I had intermittent roof leaks and when I called a roofer he discovered it.
When Covid first hit, my kid was living in SF which locked down fast and hard. He sent some pics of downtown looking like a ghost town.
Relatives in Seattle did that, too, a little later.
I’m sorry that happened. I hope you filed a police report and that they collected the bullet as evidence. Maybe data from it can be stored in a Db somewhere in the hopes that the Asshat who did it can eventually be brought to justice.
YMMV but reckless jerks tend to stay reckless jerks so another bullet from him is going to show up eventually.
Thanks. I too am essential. But I’m able to work from home. Most of our office is.
I do still drive about 400 miles a month taking care of my elderly mother, and am essential there as well.
Now, the roads near me and on that drive are more crowded than every. People sick of being stuck at home are coming to the mountains, and spread COVID.
A bullet that goes through a roof could have gone through a person.
Sometimes I think living in the USA is like living in a goddam war zone. Here in Canada, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bullet, and I’ve seen a gun maybe twice in my life. It would have been three times, when a policeman came over to give a safety lecture to the kids when my son was in grade school, and one of the kids asked if he could see his gun. The officer politely declined, no doubt because any officer that unholsters his gun has to file an extensive police report describing the circumstances and providing justification. Asshats walking around with guns, and shooting them off in celebration? No. Probably half a dozen criminal offenses right there.
I know. That 
could have easily killed you! It’s one of the reasons I’m annoying you into filing a police report. Police take ( or should take ) gun crime and throwing shots at people seriously.
Also, w/o repercussions, that will think he got away with it. He’ll brag to stupid friends that he did, so they’ll think they can ( or be shamed that they aren’t ‘real men’ unless they do it too). He’ll do it again… and again… until he’s either caught, arrested for something else, or until COVID drags away his Evil Soul.
I hope you will file that police report; for you and for everybody else that lives near you.
The roofer and I went clomp-clomping from rafter to rafter around my attic to search for the bullet. We could see where it splintered the wood upon entering, but we couldn’t see any other evidence of its travels after entering. It was made more difficult by the fact that the area was above a vaulted ceiling and was not easily reached.
And oh yes, I was very cognizant of the possibility of what may have happened if the trajectory of the slug fell a dozen feet in a different direction, say my outside patio, and if I happened to be out there…
Squeezing in one more grocery store rant before the end of the year. I had to go pick up the grandkids this morning since their mom had to work today. I decided to hit the store for a few things on the way back home. First, I had to park in East Buttfuck because the parking lot was jam packed. Then I had to scour the parking lot for a cart because they couldn’t bother to send a kid out to wrangle them. Then the grandkids were acting up all through the store. And finally, going to check out, they only had two registers open, with lines five or six deep (plus self checkout, which was backed up a dozen people or more). I couldn’t wait to get out of there - unfortunately on the way out I got stuck behind an elderly couple, he could barely walk and she, for some reason, needed to stop and peer into everyone else’s cart on the way out.
In Memphis (Shelby County) we have had over 10,000 new cases this week. And that number is probably low since testing is abysmal. But no cancellation of the big party on Beale Street. Merchants are “suggesting” that people wear masks inside and outside. Good luck with that.