Michele

Clay, you are a good man...well, not really, but I believe in the positive reinforcement method. Cats will love you on their terms....handouts being one of them. Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Gorgeous! I'm jealous...I'm usually hyperventilating and drying sweaty palms and not looking out the window (or door). Maybe I should try that! Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Um, I beg to differ. Your virginity may still be intact, but your innocence, Arthur, is long gone! Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Actually, Esse is the one who likes kidney beans. Charlotte likes the mice (but is not allowed them since she came to live with me), and Bitch Kitty likes Friskies Kitty Stew. But thanks for the thought. Yesterday's surgery went off at $196.50. Her initial office visit, plus blood work etc. was $207. Meds total are something on the order of $45. And follow up exams will be $30. Grand total for this loving furball is $478.50...Waking up next to her, curled on the pillow, purring? Priceless. But to translate it into jumps, is 4.5 days (I still rent eqipment), which, further translated, means Eloy looks really distant and impossible for me to swing right now. Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Glad to hear he's o.k., ECVZZ. It's hard to get or give those calls. Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Well, I got the missle part right, at least... Corrected, and thanks! Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Thanks, Phree. Looks like low turns and then collisions are the top two (which may change if we find out more about the weird catagory). Know what's hardest to acknowledge? Low turns and collisions, for the most part, are pilot errors. Which, at least to me, means they are avoidable. Which sucks. Plain and simple, it just sucks. Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

She's being really spoiled tonight. She got some of my dinner (salmon), got a little milk (I know it's bad for her...but a little won't kill her), and is getting lots of hugs and cuddles. She doesn't knead me, just nuzzles my hand. Right now she's got her motor going so loudly! Gawd, it's good. It's usually annoying. But it's good tonight. Thanks, Gale...and everyone. You all made a hard day a little easier. Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Thanks, Jack. I am still learning the language of jumping...appreciate the answer! I'd seen that several times, and just didn't know what it was.

Stable as Shit? Silly and Slow? Super anal swooper? Satirical angst Sarcasm? Scotch and Sarsparilla? ??????? Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Um, Patrick? Didn't I read somewhere that you're um, divorced now? Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

And an excellent chess player can switch it up and be flexible as the need arises.... What if that's plan A instead, and there is nothing which can be done to stop them in reality, but a head-fake, if taken, is as good as a gotcha, inasmuch as they will believe we know and can defend, but we really can't, so they don't carry it through... I dunno, I'm just saying that there may (and likely is) far more to what's going on than we know, even as informed and intelligent as we believe ourselves to be. I find it far more interesting that he will not be deported, and remains in an unnamed country. That speaks volumes to me. I'm just not sure what it's saying. Like I said, I dunno...and I'm not claiming that the Feebs are brilliant tacticians, either. I'm just saying there may be things here we don't/won't/can't know, and that those factor in. We only get the end product, you know? We're not in on the production line.... Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

If I understand the situation, he was captured something like 12-13 days ago. Pretty much all the intel which is gonna be gotten has been. Yes, it's interesting, and the spin which is being put on it is "it lets them know the noose is closing", but, well, that's what the Hellfire early this month did. Right? Here's a sobering thought. What if there were terrorist plans in place for November 23, and by releasing his name, AQ now have to scramble to re-establish their plan, or even make new ones? That will buy some time, wouldn't it? I can't begin to understand why the name was released, but I am pretty sure it wasn't the Feeb's decision. What I am interested in is which country he was captured in, and where he's being held...my bet is Yemen...the new Kuwait. Ciels- Michele (Edited to correct info as Quatorze indicated!) ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

The vet said something similar...salt free chicken stock over wet food, heated in the microwave kind of like stew. If she won't eat that, try the same thing with the dry food. And if she still won't eat that, I will try a salt-free gravy. Penny was nearly 19 when she died (brain cancer), Tron was 17 (congestive heart failure). 16 is old, but as long as the atibiotics work and I can support her system healing, she'll be fine. Her blood work was really good (with the above exception), and she's starting to be her bitchy self again. Still clumsy and logy, but growling at me. Man, that's great to hear! Charlotte and Esse are so happy to have her home. Esse tried to groom her, but BK whapped her and crawled into my lap. And there she is staying...I put her down to get some wine, and as soon as I sat again, plop! There she was, in my lap again. This has been a tough Friday. Wish I could jump (I need the stress release), but not this weekend... (Edit: Quade, 16 really is old...and I'm sorry you lost your furball at 10. That's early.) Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Shit, Speedy...that sux. I'm sorry. But someone with your talent and skills shouldn't be unemployed for long. As for that microbrewery stuff, go out and taste test about a dozen tonight... Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Hey, all! She's home...(thank you God!) She's less three teeth, part of her jaw (which should grow back, but may not because she's so old), and with a clean sinus. She has lots of meds to take for the next 14 days, and she's only supposed to have soft foods for the next 5 days. She's got 12 stitches and a shaved neck, and a satilite collar in case she annoys the incision. They tried to put her under intravenously, and now all the vets' staff understands why she's named the way she is...so they had to let her system clear, and then gassed her with pediatric stuff. Seems like they'd give her the gas, take the mask/cone off her to operate, and then have to give her more, and then do it again, over and over until the procedures were done. That's why it took so long. The vet says that if she can beat this infection, she has some time left. Other than this, she's pretty healthy, for 16. MY GIRL IS HOME!!!!!!!!!!!! (And in my lap as we speak). Thanks for the hugs and the vibes...me 'n The Bitch needed them, and appreciate them very very much... Ceils- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Yeah, right. My 16 y/o cat can take out your two dogs in a heart beat....well, one at a time, while they're sleeping. I used to have a Weimer/Rottie/Dobie mix, and Kitty could nail Zamora every time, using stealth mode. Very funny. She has earned her name through the years... Thanks, guys. She's still in surgery. How long does this shit take!!!!!!????? (and thanks, Clay, for really really restraining yourself here....) Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Question: A baglock is ? Yup...that cleared it up for me, thanks! What I am thinking is is container lock, yes? Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Thanks for the correction, Phree...I am still learning. I had the right pix in my head, just had the wrong name. Baglock means ? Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Chris, I am forever grateful that the dreaded jokes have not appeared. Note: Do not misconstrue the lack of jokes as a vacuum which needs to be filled... She's in surgery right now...(I know, it's silly to give you all updates as to the progress of this, but I am just so amazingly worried right now...) Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Bill - Is it a more likely possibility of having a "nothing out" (because it got squinched in there really tight), and then, on dumping the reserve, you shake the main loose and go from nothing out to "two out"? And in that scenario, in which reserve first then main, would that be more likely to cause an entanglement, or is that not necessarily so? (assuming you don't cutaway before deploying reserve) Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Geez, that's a really odd way to do it....magic envelope, please... Good luck, Speedy...you're in my thoughts! Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

Yes, it's Bitch Kitty. She's being "prepped" right now...they sent me home. I wouldn't stop kissing and cuddling her. I'll know soon...it's just that she's really old, and she's really sick, and she may not make it through the surgery, let alone beat the infection. The vet's very good. She should be out by noon. She has an abcessed jaw, sinus, and ear infection on top of it all. My other two cats are wigging out - Queen Bitch isn't here, and she rules the house...and those two don't know what to do without her. 'Course, I'm wigging out too...gawd, I want to be there right now. Thank you guys so much for the vibes...it is very very appreciated right now. It's just a waiting game at this point for me... Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

I have a tiny fiber optics tree. I have a tiny place, with a tiny table, so that's where it goes. If I bother to get it out at all. The holidays are difficult for me - the commercialization of Christmas has become more apparent the less money I have to spend on people. But it's not because I don't want to spend $$ - it's because I haven't any to spend, and so feel like a greedy bitch if I accept gifts from family without being able to return the demonstration of appreciation. It fuels the feelings of incompetence, if that makes any sense, and is not generally a happy time for me. Yes, RevJim, it's a time to reflect on our blessings and revel in family and in joy, but isn't that for everyday? Shouldn't that be something we appreciate every day? I had Christmas last night - dinner with my father. Totally sat there and just kicked it with my 80 y/o dad, and got him to try a "flavored" martini. Just me and him, hanging out on a Thursday night. Perfect! So why choose one day, hype it for months before, and then, on 12/26, "stop" appreciating for another year? I choose every day to be thankful - ask me someday about my blessings book and my "pay it forward book"...and the "story of the wind chimes"... I think what I find upsetting is simply the commercialization of it, rather than focussing on what it really means. I know it's not about gifts for gifts' sake but rather gifts as a demonstration of love to those near and dear, but it doesn't feel that way most of the time. And lastly, it ain't even Thanksgiving yet, for cripes sake! Just my .02, ymmv... Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~

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