"She's 4. Ah, no chance of littermates, then since Simon is 7-1/2.
@jessica, I love the name Simon for cats! My friend named the kitten she found Simon. It just seems to work for boy kittehz. Although right now I'm calling him It's NOT your suppertime, yet so quit jumping on my desk and messing up my typing, SIMON!" - vicster
"How old is Livsy? I'm beginning to suspect she and Simon are somehow littermates! I'm pretty sure that the container with goat cheese that I opened here in my office in San Francisco woke him from a sound sleep across the bay in Alameda, LOL!" - vicster
"The guy committed fucking treason! He put the lives (never mind careers) of many CIA operatives in danger. He's lucky he's not being treated for his brain cancer in a prison medical facility.
The hell with YOU, Robert Novak!" - vicster
"I'm hoping that this ends up like Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, where Reprise (a Warner label) execs decided it wasn't *commercial* enough and gave it back to the band, who later sold it to Nonesuch (another Warner label) for many times more than Warner would have spent on it in the first place. (Isn't Roadrunner another Warner label BTW? Tsk, tsk...you'd think they'd learn from their label-mates...)
I'll head over to Amanda Palmer's website this evening. I was wondering how best to support her while giving Roadrunner the smack down." - vicster
"I second the compressed air can. It's the ONLY thing that will stop Simon in his tracks. Billie, on the other hand, will turn around and hiss right back at it, LOL! (Thank goodness she's the Sensible Cat!)" - vicster
"She is such a wee troublemaker! So is Simon. It's the one thing about him that makes me laugh until I cry AND lose a lot of sleep with worry. His latest obsession is the top of my dresser. I came home from work last week to find half of the stuff I keep there on the floor. Only after I checked everything for bite marks and accounted for all the stuff I had up there before I went to work, was I able to breathe again. **sigh** (This reminds me, I need to go check out pet health insurance...)" - vicster
"OMFG! LOL! Oh Sophie, you look ridiculous!
Simon did that with candles a couple of times when he was a kitten. For weeks I couldn't look at him and his curly whiskers without laughing. (I've since managed to find a couple of safe places to burn candles. They're not necessarily out of Simon's reach, if he were really determined to get up to them, but I've made it enough of a hassle that he doesn't bother.) I'm thankful he hasn't shown much interest in being on the kitchen counter or stove (unless I'm making gravy or there's a container of goat cheese around)." - vicster
"@femmina, I've just finished my 4th NaNoWriMo novel (phew!) and the only thing I can tell you is to just sit there and WRITE. Try not to dwell on how many pages/words you need to do. Break it into time increments and set yourself up with something nice to do when your writing time is over. For me it usually looked like this on weekends: Mornings I'd get going slowly, drink coffee, read internets then take a shower. 11:00 - 1:00 p.m. write (then take a walk or do yoga or watch a DVD, have lunch) 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. write (then make my supper clean up kitchen maybe do some house work...maybe) 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. write (sometimes, if I was on a roll, I'd go until 11-11:30) But, really, as hard as it got sometimes to continue on with this year's novel, the only way I did it was to sit down and write, even if I didn't think I could pull an idea out of my ass to save my life! Once I got going, though, it managed to come together. Just give your inner editor the night off and write your..." - vicster
"The ugliness of this tragedy makes me feel physically ill. Then there was word of two people shot to death at a Toys R Us in Palm Desert. This is why I spend Black Friday holed up in my apartment with the furkids. The insanity of Black Friday is way more than I can deal with.
I hold the victims and their families in my heart." - vicster
"I would think that this should come under some sort of predator law. @Keori, that's what I keep coming back to, too! That's how I've viewed Lori Drew since the moment I first heard about this tragedy. Drew should never again be allowed access to the Internet OR to anyone under the age of 18.
Yet, I CAN see where this case might result in some very unsettling consequences. I'm still trying to sort out in my mind what all of this means. I think this case clearly shows that we STILL don't quite know what to do with the World Wide Web.
All that said, I hope that, should the Meiers decide to follow up with a civil suit, that they win and that, somehow, Lori Drew faces very severe consequences." - vicster
"I wish I had something wise or reassuring to say, but I don't. That's exactly how I'm feeling. Still trying to process this and wishing I could be more wise or reassuring to my friends here in the Bay Area who have family and friends in Mumbai." - vicster
"Why am I not surprised that Tilsy has commandeered the blanket on the couch? :-)
@CopperCat, what a sweet poem! LOL!
I wish you all a safe, happy and delicious Thanksgiving!" - vicster
