I was accosted just now in the cafeteria here at work; a rather odd young woman came up to me while I was looking at some new brand of energy drink called “lost.” I wondered aloud if the world really needed a beverage for fans of a TV show about people and polar bears stuck on a tropical island, and this woman decided I was her new bestest buddy. She started asking me all kinds of nutritional and relationship questions and wondered what she should drink if she was too nervous to eat and feeling all quivery from adrenaline. “Um,…

Signing the paperrs… this service provided by Pact Humane Society. It took a while to get through the paperwork, but at this point it was all over except for buying food, litter, a collar, a nametag, treats, and some catnip toys. PACTHumane does it all with volunteers, and they do it very well. One of the ladies tonight was a trainee – she very happy to complete her first adoption. We are now the proud people of a really nice brown tabby cat. He seems to be settling in nicely, though he seems to have a serious catnip jones. Oh,…

Petfinder PetNotes Notes: Hi, my name is Dickens and I am a 4-5 year old male DSH black kitty. I am neutered, front paw declawed and weighs 12 lbs., 5.5 oz. Crap, I can’t remember the name of the cat I liked so much 2 weeks ago. We were planning on going to the other Petsmart store in the area, but I keep thinking about the big black cat I held at the other location. Crap, crap, crap. I think it may have been this one, though. And I don’t know if it’s still there. Crap. The last few days,…

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This weekend is going to be pretty busy. I’m not looking forward to all of the meetings and running around, plus it gives David and me very little time to take care of an essential item on my agenda. I’ve got an all-day meeting Saturday that’s a kind of retreat for Holy Moly, and to be ready for that I’ve got some formatting to do for fliers and things that we’ll be handing out in bulletins. The meeting goes from 9am to 3pm and is supposed to be a planning event. We had better get some actual planning done, rather…

See the pretty lady about to adopt a cat? Not me, the lady on the poster behind me. I’m just holding a kitten and wondering if I can get David to hold it and go all skwoogie for it. As it turns out, David managed to avoid entanglement, but it was a nice cuddly kitten and not all wiggly and ‘put-me-down’ like kittens often are. This was Sunday at the local Petsmart – they generally have cat adoption events by various groups on the weekend. We took stock of things tonight – we still have a litter box and a…

Hey, Kevin!! If you’re still lurking about, I uploaded pictures of many anemones (and other things) to Flickr just now. It’s weird that I didn’t take any photos of you all when we were at the house earlier that week, though. I think I was in “decompress” mode that day. This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: Many More Anemones! By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 18 Sep ’05, 1.09am PST

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These guys were pretty good at the end – they went off the rails into Celtic jazz on their last piece, very fast and very dramatic. The harper broke a string and played on as if the Devil himself was goading him. After the big finish he leaned over into the mike and announced “Thank you. And yes, it was the G string that broke,” to an even bigger round of applause. This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: photo_0030.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Sep ’05, 6.18pm PST