A Miscellanea
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shannon_aBuilding. There's been a constant drumbeat of hammering, sawing, and powernailing from next door for the last couple of days. Our neighbor, M., is getting the place reshingled and doing some other outside work as well. Fortunately, the workers are either lazy or else M. specifically asked them not to start early, because they never seem to be going until 10am or so, well after I'm awake ... which is a nice change from years past when other neighborly construction led to 8am cement mixing--which I can't fault them for, but was still unpleasant.
I hear an occasional smattering of Russian from next door. That's also a nice change from when our previous neighbor, J., got work done 3 or 4 years ago, and I'd hear an occasional smattering of either Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly, I forget which now. J. was just mortified when I told her that her workers were blasting hate speech to the whole neighborhood--mortified by the hate speech, not the blasting.
Caulking. Speaking of working I finished up my caulking of our dining room window earlier in the week, but not in a good way. I was trying to fill a vertical gap between the window and the sill and it turns out that caulk (or at least the caulk we got) just doesn't have the strength to stand up vertically like that. I tried for a while. I decided I might not even be using the correct substance. Even aside that problem, I discovered it was very hard to caulk evenly. I got caulk all over and I finally decided that I didn't know what I was doing. The caulk got mostly cleaned up.
And then I added it to our list of things to get a handyman to do. Fortunately, the next 2 or 3 things I want to repaint won't have this issue.
There is painter's tape back over the gap now, to avoid rainy problems until a handyman happens.
Cobweb. I haven't written about Cobweb in months. It's still very clear that eating makes her sick sometimes, and as a result she has to be particularly tempted to eat. She stopped eating her wet food ages ago, then she stopped eating her new dry food. So most recently we got some kitten food which is both tastier and more fattening (and fortunately all of our cats are pretty slim, since they're all eating the kitten food).
Given extreme variety, Cobweb is mostly eating most of the time. Whenever she begs for wet food, she gets it, and she usually eats a decent amount. I now have regular food and kitten food sitting in bowls next to each other. Cobweb prefers the regular food, but will often go back and forth between it and the kitten food.
Whatever keeps her eating. But I'm now certain this will be a continuous problem for as long as she's around.
Traveller. My Traveller campaign ended a week and a half ago. Last night I finally finished my Traveller AP which reported the whole 20-session saga.
I'm still working on reading the Pathfinder rulebook for the next campaign. I hadn't realized quite how hefty it was!
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam. These weeks leading up the elections have definitely increased the amount of political spam I've been getting. It appears that the couple of political groups I'd given my name to had passed it on to a couple more and all of them started sending a mail a day or so. So, I've removed my name from all the lists but one. Good going, guys. That ain't the way to retain mailing info.
In other spam, I've started to get "Christian" spam from Christian stores who think that the way to reach believers and get them to purchase crap is by email spam. I took the time to tell the last one (and their IP providers who might actually put a stop to their hypocritical bullshit) that spammers were beholden to Mammon.
I hear an occasional smattering of Russian from next door. That's also a nice change from when our previous neighbor, J., got work done 3 or 4 years ago, and I'd hear an occasional smattering of either Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly, I forget which now. J. was just mortified when I told her that her workers were blasting hate speech to the whole neighborhood--mortified by the hate speech, not the blasting.
Caulking. Speaking of working I finished up my caulking of our dining room window earlier in the week, but not in a good way. I was trying to fill a vertical gap between the window and the sill and it turns out that caulk (or at least the caulk we got) just doesn't have the strength to stand up vertically like that. I tried for a while. I decided I might not even be using the correct substance. Even aside that problem, I discovered it was very hard to caulk evenly. I got caulk all over and I finally decided that I didn't know what I was doing. The caulk got mostly cleaned up.
And then I added it to our list of things to get a handyman to do. Fortunately, the next 2 or 3 things I want to repaint won't have this issue.
There is painter's tape back over the gap now, to avoid rainy problems until a handyman happens.
Cobweb. I haven't written about Cobweb in months. It's still very clear that eating makes her sick sometimes, and as a result she has to be particularly tempted to eat. She stopped eating her wet food ages ago, then she stopped eating her new dry food. So most recently we got some kitten food which is both tastier and more fattening (and fortunately all of our cats are pretty slim, since they're all eating the kitten food).
Given extreme variety, Cobweb is mostly eating most of the time. Whenever she begs for wet food, she gets it, and she usually eats a decent amount. I now have regular food and kitten food sitting in bowls next to each other. Cobweb prefers the regular food, but will often go back and forth between it and the kitten food.
Whatever keeps her eating. But I'm now certain this will be a continuous problem for as long as she's around.
Traveller. My Traveller campaign ended a week and a half ago. Last night I finally finished my Traveller AP which reported the whole 20-session saga.
I'm still working on reading the Pathfinder rulebook for the next campaign. I hadn't realized quite how hefty it was!
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam. These weeks leading up the elections have definitely increased the amount of political spam I've been getting. It appears that the couple of political groups I'd given my name to had passed it on to a couple more and all of them started sending a mail a day or so. So, I've removed my name from all the lists but one. Good going, guys. That ain't the way to retain mailing info.
In other spam, I've started to get "Christian" spam from Christian stores who think that the way to reach believers and get them to purchase crap is by email spam. I took the time to tell the last one (and their IP providers who might actually put a stop to their hypocritical bullshit) that spammers were beholden to Mammon.