Something that really cheers me up... when birds are feeding on the native shrubs outside my window, and filling the spring air with the sounds of their happy industry - I like the little [donk] of my cat hitting the inside of the window just before those birds freak out and leave.  read more »

I think that my beer of choice is no longer imported. Probably because of the thing where you can scratch to get a naked lady. I did have another one, as part of another dessert lunch. And I managed to convince the co-luncher to also go straight to dessert. But they had tea as the drink.  read more »

At work yesterday, we started with me rolling myself well back from my desk, then turning my back on it, then looking at the ceiling while mouthing some of the foulest words I know.

Later in the day I was surrounded by a mysterious excitement. It just made me frown, and that was the correct reaction. Reception came down in person, with astonishing and exciting news. There was a *man*, with an *umbrella*, to see me. At that point, a room full of chicks will go nuts with questions.

Reception ushered me out, and hid in the kitchen while I went to find the man.  read more »

I've patched the damn game, but I have predictable crashes still. :( There are random fairies that give you happy little gifts of life or manna, but mostly they just crash the game. So now I hate the helpful little bastards.

I thought my iPod had died today. That was quite a panic attack, but it reset fine. Yaay for those kinds of people who you can message in a blind panic, because you can't quite stop freaking out and you know they'll take a deep breath and suggest something useful.  read more »

I'm doing this thing where you restrain a cat three times a day to put eye ointment in. Been doing that for over a week, so it's now routine.

Today I read the tube, and in bold it says "MEAT WITHOLDING PERIOD 28 DAYS". Which is really bad - because the cat's been eating plenty of meat. I re-read it as I'm trying to work out how bad it is that I've been feeding the cat normally... then I realise it means no-one should eat the cat for 28 days.

I had a crap day today.

My cat got out while people were going to work. So I got up to a note on the fridge that the "MOUSE IS OUTSIDE". She didn't come back until about half three, which gave me hours in which to fret.

When she did come home, she was a sad moggy. Covered in motor oil, which then had attracted an extra coat of dust. Slight limp, looked like she'd had a minor run-in with a car.

So then we had the added joy of a bath. It would be suckfull to be a cat who'd had a bad adventure then finally made it home... to be put through the added trauma of a bath. It wasn't as bad as other cats I've had, though. I think it helped that I threw in a ping-pong ball.  read more »

I am really disliking the adjustment to the new drug. Suffice to say that it goes better if I don't eat. I don't even want to eat. This will probably chew through the stores I put on with the last drug and being ravenous all the time.

My cat loves her thing on a string. It's a ring from a plastic milk bottle, with a length of string tied to it, and she spends her day following me around the house with it. Recently she started pushing it under the toilet door when someone was in there.

Now she likes to put it in my waste paper bin by my desk. She jumps up on the bookshelf and leans out with the thing in her mouth, and drops it in. The really fun part (for her) is then jumping down and tipping my bin out to rescue the thing on a string. I really suspect she does this to shit me, and thus get my full attention, while I am with the computer and not with her.  read more »