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Games & Cats
Oct. 4th, 2009 11:12 amGames. Yesterday was a gaming day held at my house. We've been doing that occasionally since the dissolution of the Kube Gaming Room, mostly due to other things being scheduled at EndGame. (This week was their quarterly or so mini-con, which is the one time that the gaming space is absolutely too busy for us to use; we've sometimes skipped their more crowded days too, though we've been kindly offered a table.)
It's a pleasant change of pace. For one thing, I get to run my lava lamp, which sits above my usual GM chair. Also, to my surprise, there's plenty of room for group sizes up to 7 or 8--though we can't sit at a table with a battle map in front of us like we would at the store.
Another plus: BBQ. As with last time, there were huge piles of meat, corn, potatoes, and other various things. Dave P. and Dave S. are kind enough to do most of the BBQing, though I help out as time allows. There was also much talking afterward. Very nice, though tiring too.
Another plus: cleaner house, since Kimberly and I spend some time beforehand.
All in all, a good day of gaming, though not much progress was actually made on the Savage Tide (full AP to follow).
Cats. The reason I haven't written about the cats in several days is that Cobweb has had a recovery that looks nothing short of miraculous. Last Thursday she was sooo sick, then on last Friday she lay down to die.
Ever since she decided to get up on last Saturday to get some water, she's been seeming better and more herself every day. Kimberly even saw her eating dry kibble one evening.
Mind you, she's still got intestinal cancer and she's still getting very little nutrition (if any) from food she's eating. She's probably still only got a few weeks left. But the pull back from the brink is amazing and wonderful, even though it's just for a bit.
Our best guess for the turnaround is that the chemotherapy drug we were giving her was making her sick to her stomach. Though our vet had assured us there were no side effects, I'd seen nausea mentioned more than once on the 'net. Certainly, first her eating and then her entire well being got much worse when she was taking the drugs and quickly improved when she stopped taking them.
And that's actually what our original assessment had been: that we didn't want to give her chemotherapy because any extension of lifespan would be more than offset by a considerably worse quality of life. Our original assumptions sure seemed to be borne out.
For now we've got a kitty who seems to be genuinely enjoying the scant time left her.
Blankets. In recent years I've taken to reading in bed for 30 or 60 minutes before bedtime. It was something I settled on to improve my sleep, because too often if I was programming, writing, or doing something really thoughtful just before bed, I couldn't stop my thinking afterward. Ever since I started with the late-night reading, Cobweb has taken to listening for me laying down to read, then running into the bedroom, to come curl up with me, purring and purring against my side while I read.
When Cobweb was recovering from her recent nadir, I put a furry blanket that the cats love down at the foot of bed. It constantly attracts all of the cats to the bed. So recently my nightime reading has been amidst all three of our cats. Very nice.
It's a pleasant change of pace. For one thing, I get to run my lava lamp, which sits above my usual GM chair. Also, to my surprise, there's plenty of room for group sizes up to 7 or 8--though we can't sit at a table with a battle map in front of us like we would at the store.
Another plus: BBQ. As with last time, there were huge piles of meat, corn, potatoes, and other various things. Dave P. and Dave S. are kind enough to do most of the BBQing, though I help out as time allows. There was also much talking afterward. Very nice, though tiring too.
Another plus: cleaner house, since Kimberly and I spend some time beforehand.
All in all, a good day of gaming, though not much progress was actually made on the Savage Tide (full AP to follow).
Cats. The reason I haven't written about the cats in several days is that Cobweb has had a recovery that looks nothing short of miraculous. Last Thursday she was sooo sick, then on last Friday she lay down to die.
Ever since she decided to get up on last Saturday to get some water, she's been seeming better and more herself every day. Kimberly even saw her eating dry kibble one evening.
Mind you, she's still got intestinal cancer and she's still getting very little nutrition (if any) from food she's eating. She's probably still only got a few weeks left. But the pull back from the brink is amazing and wonderful, even though it's just for a bit.
Our best guess for the turnaround is that the chemotherapy drug we were giving her was making her sick to her stomach. Though our vet had assured us there were no side effects, I'd seen nausea mentioned more than once on the 'net. Certainly, first her eating and then her entire well being got much worse when she was taking the drugs and quickly improved when she stopped taking them.
And that's actually what our original assessment had been: that we didn't want to give her chemotherapy because any extension of lifespan would be more than offset by a considerably worse quality of life. Our original assumptions sure seemed to be borne out.
For now we've got a kitty who seems to be genuinely enjoying the scant time left her.
Blankets. In recent years I've taken to reading in bed for 30 or 60 minutes before bedtime. It was something I settled on to improve my sleep, because too often if I was programming, writing, or doing something really thoughtful just before bed, I couldn't stop my thinking afterward. Ever since I started with the late-night reading, Cobweb has taken to listening for me laying down to read, then running into the bedroom, to come curl up with me, purring and purring against my side while I read.
When Cobweb was recovering from her recent nadir, I put a furry blanket that the cats love down at the foot of bed. It constantly attracts all of the cats to the bed. So recently my nightime reading has been amidst all three of our cats. Very nice.