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Nov. 4th, 2009 @ 09:54 pm Miss Kitty
Current Location: ABQ
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Originally uploaded by ferragus

This is Miss Kitty, I got her ages ago, she's about 20 now (Really).
She's been slowing down, and even slowly fading. So much so that she's not able to get around and use the litter box. So I set up a good sized crate for her (large dog crate really) and turned the liner into a giant litter pan. She's been happy with that for a while, but this past weekend she couldn't get out of it on her own (I bring her out daily, put her on a house breaking pad with food and water so she's not cooped up 100% of the time).

Well today, I opened the crate door and she fell out of the crate. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. She's still in good spirits, and happy to see me (and eager to be fed) but I've made the final vet appointment for next Wednesday.

Gonna miss her, she's been a good kitty.



and Yes, her name is Kitty Karlyle.

ETA: posted direct from flickr, so edited for spelling and clarity
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Nov. 4th, 2009 @ 09:47 pm Flickr
This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.
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Sep. 10th, 2009 @ 09:18 am Braiiiins - or more things I can't be allowed to have
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: amused
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Craigslist has an interesting listing in ABQ:

4x4 Zombie/Armageddon Survival Truck

Some of the wingnutty phrasings:
1976 Jeep J20 4x4 Zombie/Armageddon Survival Truck. Look we all know the end of the world is soon, so here is your chance to be PREPARED!

... you’ll be enclosed by a STEEL cabin. This should keep out swine/horse/dog/sheep flu infected zombies looking to feed on your brain.

...

It has fresh white paint and could easily blend in with the other UN/NWO/ILLUMINATI vehicles in case you need to bust your family out of the FEMA camps.

...

I will be no longer needing it since I’ve raised my vibration and I’ll be ascending to the 4th dimension via either astral projection or instant rapture, I’m not sure.

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In all, it's so funny I had to share :)

http://albuquerque.craigslist.org/cto/1366426033.html

Hope he gets what he's asking before the zombies get him!

ETA: Line breaks, LJ ate them all!
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Sep. 9th, 2009 @ 10:09 pm So, when did Arron Sorkin start writing for President Obama?
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: hopeful
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Just watched the tape of tonights speech and wow.

Here's a link if you missed it:
Huffington Post Link to Obama Health Care Speech
Here's a few of my favorite bits:

Well the time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action. Now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together, and show the American people that we can still do what we were sent here to do. Now is the time to deliver on health care

...

Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple.

...

But that's not what the moment calls for. That's not what we came here to do. We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it. I still believe we can act even when it's hard. I still believe we can replace acrimony with civility, and gridlock with progress. I still believe we can do great things, and that here and now we will meet history's test.
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Sep. 4th, 2009 @ 09:30 pm Health related meme
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: determined
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"No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick.

If you agree, please post this in all your social networking accounts."
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Aug. 19th, 2009 @ 09:38 am I <3 Barney Frank
Current Location: United States, New Mexico, Albuquerque
Current Mood: amused
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Ok at the very least I'd like to buy the man a scotch!
Frank Confronts Woman with Obama as Hitler Picture at Town Hall: On What Planet Do You Spend Most of Your Time?


Thanks to Crooks and Liars for posting the video!
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Jul. 28th, 2009 @ 10:16 pm Duncan is home! Thanks for all your good thoughts!
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: jubilant
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He's eating (ok a tiny portion of bran mash, which is as disgusting as it sounds!) but he's home!!

and when he got home he was promptly put in his stall (what? you closed the door! that's not supposed to happen) and the SO and I clean swept his ENTIRE PADDOCK!

Let me explain. SO keeps it very tidy, but Poop happens, (Yay for Poop!). It either gets tossed outside of the paddock to dry out and fertilize the entire back yard (exercise area) or it gets dashed on the ground to break it up so that the flies won't have a breeding/hatching area. Thing is that horses are very inefficient at digesting feed, so what comes out, is nearly as nutrious as what goes in, and for a horse on very light feeding, it's more then can be ignored.

So we raked and swept his paddock while he was in the stall and let him out. And there was much rejoicing!

He's not 100% out of danger, but his displaced colon righted itself (Honestly my quick google agreed with what the first vet said, that pretty much doesn't happen!) Second vet said he was optimistic that once he got enough mineral oil into Duncan that it would do that and thanks to all your good thoughts it did!

Miracle Horse!!

BTW the icon is Himself and what the heck, here's a really impressive normal picture of him too!

Duncan trotting

BTW more pictures of Duncan and his amazing backstory can be found
here

ETA: fixed that broken link at the end
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Jul. 27th, 2009 @ 09:55 pm Good thoughts needed
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: anxious
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Got home a short while ago from the emergency vet. My SO's horse got colicky and when the housecall vet showed up, she declared it bad.

Some scrambling to get a trailer, then some great advice from a local equestrian legend and we ended up at the NM Colic Clinc just a few miles south of us. There the Dr decided to wait and see and use less drastic measure then major surgery on an 18 yr old horse.

We're all thinking good thoughts, if you have any to spare, please think of Duncan and we'll hope for the best. We expect to hear something as early as 9AM tomorrow.

Thanks!
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May. 17th, 2009 @ 08:53 pm Support Stem Cell Research
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: worried
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Tell the Federal Government How You Feel About Stem Cell Research

(the above link says everything I want to say, and has a video too! You won't offend me if you just follow the link :)

This is important folks!
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Mar. 9th, 2009 @ 01:21 pm Great jumping sphygmomanometers!
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: cheerful
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My BP has come down to 111/74 with a pulse rate of 68!

Still not the king.

But hey, I'll take what I can get!
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Feb. 17th, 2009 @ 02:04 pm Book pimpage day
Current Mood: cheerful
Looks like everyone is talking about books today, so I thought I'd join in.

A little while back ( here if you're looking) I mentioned how [info]connerybeagle's Mom had a new book out.

and linked to the handsome cover thusly:



Well the new news is that it SOLD OUT!! and the bigger news is that IT'S GONE TO A SECOND PRINTING!!

So thanks to everyone that purchased a copy and encouragement to all that are waiting. Reports are that it's listed as in stock again, so it looks like a very fast (in my opinion) turnaround on the reprint.

Yay! Or even BAWHHHH!

(you can order a copy for yourself here.)
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Feb. 17th, 2009 @ 10:08 am for my Gluten free friends
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: chipper
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A special person in my life is Gluten intolerant, so I've been looking for Delimex Beef Tamales for her (a fave). None. Nada. Zip. And in Albuquerque NM no less. (Ok that's like looking for Frozen Cheesesteak Subsitute in Phily, but go with me here.)

So I left a comment on the Heinz website (they own Delimex now, perhaps the worse website in the world as far as product information goes).

Today I got a response. 10 points out of 10 for Heinz! They sent me everything I asked for, everything I should have asked for and a recipe too. Still the worse website ever, but good job of customer service!

Full text of message is below cut for those interested in GF products:
( cut for those that don't care )
Only at Target in ABQ, go figure!
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Feb. 13th, 2009 @ 11:27 am 1234567890 seconds since the epoch
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From an old friend I hear this news:

A minute to mark the event.

1234567890 seconds, not counting leap seconds, since the beginning of the UNIX epoch: Jan. 1, 1970, will occur
Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 EST 2009
23:31:30 GMT on 02/13/2009

perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9473991308.html

(the perl is a perl programming language snippet to display this for yourself)

Gee it chokes you up (sob) I can remember when the epoch was only 123456789!
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Jan. 31st, 2009 @ 11:10 pm Not my fault
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: cheerful
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I blame [info]queenoftheskies, she's always doing this.
Adopt one today!

Anyway, I've got a dragon egg, click on it and it will hatch.

What can I say, I'm always a sucker for orphans pets.

Thanks!

(ETA an actual link to the egg!)
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Jan. 23rd, 2009 @ 02:27 pm Top of my list of things I DO NOT WANT
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: indescribable
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A 25 day ocean cruise in a beer cooler!

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24936304-662,00.html

This is amazing, their story is that they forced to crew a 10M boat that broke up. It's possible that they are the only survivors from a crew of 20 and spent 25 days in the ocean, floating in what is basically a very large beer cooler.
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Jan. 8th, 2009 @ 09:28 am Ah Shit
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: pissed off
Posting this from work, so it's ugly, but it's very important.

A former coworker of mine has been diagnosed with COPD. His condition has gotten so bad so fast that the only hope is the have a double lung transplant.

The catch is that he can't get on the waiting list until he has $500,000 to $1,000,000 in cash or insurance.

Not going to rant here how absolutely unfair that is, but I will say all of my overseas friends are also welcome to run out and kiss you nearest non-slimy politician that you aren't stuck with such a barbaric health care system.

I will post this link:

http://bridgit.livejournal.com/176421.html

that's the details of what's going on and how you can help. Follow bridgit's LJ, there's lots of fund raising being done.

http://www.transplantfund.org/restricted/patient-guestbook.cfm?pat_id=2727 is a direct link to the group that is helping with the fund raising, you can donate there if you're able.

If you can't help out with money, please post the details, a lot of you have much wider readership then I and getting the word out fast is Chucks only hope.

Everyone is also welcome to post words of support on Chucks guestbook, I can only imagine how needed that is right now.

Hugs to everyone and thanks!
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Jan. 4th, 2009 @ 04:39 pm Very Important Announcement!
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: determined
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[info]connerybeagle's Mom has a new book out.



(you can order a copy for yourself here.)

As it turns out, the Preditors and Editors website is having a readers poll, and everyone can vote in it (Even you!)

Click on this link, and it will direct you to the voting page for Mysteries. Voting requires a name, and an email, and they send you a confirmation link to click so some unscrupulous person won't stuff the ballot box.

BTW if you're a new writer, or an established writer looking for a link to send folks to that answers the question "What do I need to know to avoid being scammed as a writer", Preditors & Editors is a great resource.

Please vote!

Thanks

ETA: Oh yeah, that's [info]connerybeagle himself on the cover, isn't he cute?
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Dec. 30th, 2008 @ 09:50 pm Because Really, I love this man.
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: happy
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Congratulation to Sir Terence David John Pratchett (known to many of us as Terry Pratchett) on his inclusion in the New Year's Honoursas a Knight Bachelor. He may now refer to himself as Sir Terry.

Thanks to [info]shsilver for pointing it out, he's got a good Terry anecdote here and I'll take a moment and include my own.

In 2004 I was in Boston for Noreascon Four and there was a delay was we (I was rooming with "The" Donewitz as I recall, Ira why aren't you on LJ?) checked into our room, so off to the lobby bar we went. Terry was one of the Guests of Honour and sure enough I soon spotted him making his way through the hotel lobby. "Hey Terry" I shouted, and when he looked waved him over. "Let us buy you a drink." He graciously accepted and mentioned he could only stay a moment because he was meeting Mike Resnick to discuss a project. We assured him that we knew Mike by sight and would help keep an eye out for him.

It took the hotel nearly 3 hours to get our room ready, but every few minutes during that time some more luminaries would join our crew and be amused by Terry. Mike had, as I recalled shown up pretty quickly and just decided to go with the flow and stayed with us the whole time.

For me, it was one of the most memorable and enjoyable starts to a Worldcon I'd ever experienced.

So gather round folks, and raise your glasses high!

Cheers to Sir Terry!
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Dec. 17th, 2008 @ 11:40 am Changing Pharmacies
Current Location: ABQ
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One of the inevitable things about getting older, you can count on having prescriptions to transfer when you move.

So after asking around and deciding that the chain that was so stupid in Phoenix was worth a shot here in ABQ I took the plunge.

Showed up with my nearly empty pill bottles and they took the info down, my info and I said I'd be happy to get them Friday, since that was the last day of my current supply.

The score:

+1 point for being very close
+3 points for being 24hrs
-1 point for that only being the store front part and not the real pharmacy part, though I can pickup until 10PM so that's pretty cool.
+5 points for calling to transfer the script within 15 minutes of me walking out the door, which I know because ...
-2 points for calling me, instead of the pharmacy in PHX to make the transfer, and calling me TWICE!

But finally

+999 points for style when he covered the second mistaken phone call with "Oops, well sir, would you like to pick these up tonight?"

These guys have definitely redeemed my opinion of the chain from what was messed up at PHX.
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Dec. 8th, 2008 @ 09:21 pm Is Google Dying?
Current Location: ABQ
Current Mood: annoyed
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gmail, igoogle, even the google search weren't responding for me for about 4 hours tonight.

Now they're back...

No they're not.

Oh Wait, yes they are again.

So whatever is going on I'm still seeing it.

Good luck!
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