Various Woes & Some Brightness
Jun. 24th, 2010 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aSo after doing very well for about six months, Cobweb has started seeming sickly again. She's been having digestive problems for at least a couple of weeks and that appears to coincide with a bit more than a half-pound of weight loss. Now, we did try and move her back to dry food over the same period, but that was very successful, and she seemed to be frequently eating, so I don't think it's an issue of eating less food because of the change.
But, in any case, we are moving her back to wet food twice a day as of today, because she was doing better one way or another with that. Hopefully she will be again. Me, I'm wondering if she might have developed a food allergy to her dry food, and if that could be the source of her problems. That'd be nice, because it's be a correctable solution.
We'll go another month and see if things stabilize or turnaround, else it's back to the vet.
I've been a bit disturbed by the increases in gang violence lately in this area. There have been a number of shootings in Oakland and South Berkeley lately, some not that far southwest of us. However a shooting futher down in Oakland about 10 or 12 blocks west of EndGame earlier this week was more disturbing. There was a candlelight vigil for someone who had been murdered in East Oakland previously and kids showed up and started shooting people at the vigil (killing one of them).
What kind of monsters kill people at a funeral?
There's since been yet another shooting on that same street, 8th, even further into West Oakland.
Though they're not on my regular routes, I've ridden through many of these neighborhoods with all these shootings, which makes me nervous too.
The RPGnet release of High Society is almost done and I'm pretty much burned out on it. That's how it goes with a release: more and more minutia the closer you get to done until it seems like you've got Zeno's Paradox.
Makes me pretty happy that we've got solid deadlines on these games with the designers, because it means they can only lag so far before you have to let your baby go.
On the bright side: Martin Wallace's Age of Industry tonight, as I try out the other map before I write my review.
Oh, and a bit of humor. I was gaming at EndGame last night and ended up chatting with a few people I didn't know. After I introduced myself to one, whose name was Tatiana, I think, she said, "Shannon??" and I said, "Yes." and she said, "Oh, I thought I'd misheard because I haven't met any men named that."
(And, it's certainly rarer. I've known only one or two male "Shannon"s over the course of my life.)
A minute later another person sat down at the table. Shane, I think. And I introduced myself, and he also asked to hear the name again and then he said, "Ah, that's what I thought you said. That's my brother's name."
Brother, not sister, you note;).
But, in any case, we are moving her back to wet food twice a day as of today, because she was doing better one way or another with that. Hopefully she will be again. Me, I'm wondering if she might have developed a food allergy to her dry food, and if that could be the source of her problems. That'd be nice, because it's be a correctable solution.
We'll go another month and see if things stabilize or turnaround, else it's back to the vet.
I've been a bit disturbed by the increases in gang violence lately in this area. There have been a number of shootings in Oakland and South Berkeley lately, some not that far southwest of us. However a shooting futher down in Oakland about 10 or 12 blocks west of EndGame earlier this week was more disturbing. There was a candlelight vigil for someone who had been murdered in East Oakland previously and kids showed up and started shooting people at the vigil (killing one of them).
What kind of monsters kill people at a funeral?
There's since been yet another shooting on that same street, 8th, even further into West Oakland.
Though they're not on my regular routes, I've ridden through many of these neighborhoods with all these shootings, which makes me nervous too.
The RPGnet release of High Society is almost done and I'm pretty much burned out on it. That's how it goes with a release: more and more minutia the closer you get to done until it seems like you've got Zeno's Paradox.
Makes me pretty happy that we've got solid deadlines on these games with the designers, because it means they can only lag so far before you have to let your baby go.
On the bright side: Martin Wallace's Age of Industry tonight, as I try out the other map before I write my review.
Oh, and a bit of humor. I was gaming at EndGame last night and ended up chatting with a few people I didn't know. After I introduced myself to one, whose name was Tatiana, I think, she said, "Shannon??" and I said, "Yes." and she said, "Oh, I thought I'd misheard because I haven't met any men named that."
(And, it's certainly rarer. I've known only one or two male "Shannon"s over the course of my life.)
A minute later another person sat down at the table. Shane, I think. And I introduced myself, and he also asked to hear the name again and then he said, "Ah, that's what I thought you said. That's my brother's name."
Brother, not sister, you note;).