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Oct. 18th, 2020 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeThe Barton is in the house! After way too little sleep and almost zero planning and definitely zero shutting the rest of the cats away the boy asked me when he came home this morning "So, you want to just pick him up and try and toss him into the office?" (The office is right by the front door.) I was working on five hours' sleep, I said sure. So we fed him, petted him, got him to relax and then I picked him up and walked in the fucking house.
He struggled less than I expected! So much less that I kept walking, in the noble tradition of once you have the feral cat keep moving the feral cat until it is where you want it to go as long as you're not getting ribboned while doing it, down the hall and up the stairs and into the craft-now-quarantine room with the boy closing and opening doors around me. I put him down. Cassius meowed a loud hello. We sat in the room with them for a while, we watched him scuttle around and try to hide, we watched Cassius go up to him in case they fought. Cassius's attitude was, I think I can best sum it up as, "HI BUDDY! YOU'LL LOVE IT HERE THEY FEED US AND THERE'S NO RACCOONS AND IT'S NICE AND COZY AND DRY!" Barton's attitude was "I'm sulking in a corner fuck off."
But by the end of the day he's letting me pet him, purring, actively participating in the petting so I know he's not just purring to self-soothe, licking my hand, eating treats, and while he's still sulking in one of the makeshift caves under shelves and between boxes that we left for them, I feel safe in expecting him to eventually come out and eat when he's hungry, drink when he's thirsty. And he knows what a litter box is, we've seen him use the old ones we leave outside for drip catching. Next challenge, introducing them both to the other cats. So far it's mostly stand in the doorway with Bat Cat in arms letting him look and them look at him.
There thankfully hasn't been much other news lately. I finished the project, I'd had it finished by Friday except the refactoring, which took ten minutes, the blog post, which took about two hours but most of that was getting wordpress to work right, and the video, which took forever to work up the courage to actually shoot and talk through. Gah. I hate that, I don't want to do it again, I'm going to have to do it at least four more times. Ugh. But that's done, and now I can move on.
(Or I can as soon as I upload everything, ahahah, I was so nervous about doing the video presentation I forgot to upload it. WHOOPS. Okay, that's done now.)
... gah, did I not update on Friday? I didn't update on Friday. Friday was, admittedly, kind of a mess. Friday was an early morning vet appointment, followed by hitting up another pharmacy for Murdock's blood sugar sensor, followed by hitting up Home Depot because the kitchen fluorescents were finally down to I think two? They're long tube fluorescents, and they lasted a good 7-8 years but they were burning out, so we needed to get more before we were left with one overhead regular bulb in our high-ceilinged giant kitchen. And Staples, because my long-awaited printer had finally just been cancelled by them (ugh) and I was not going to mail order this again. I had two printer ink cartridge sets that were now useless to me, wasn't going to do it again, was going to go to Staples and get a printer that I could put my hot little hands on in that moment. So now that's set up, it mostly fits in the printer alcove except for needing a small pedestal because it's got a front-loading paper tray and the slide-out tray fortypewriters printers has a lip in the front, and it scans! I was able to scan in some art! YAY. (It's the scanner function I was mostly looking for, I had managed to get the printer function of our ten year old printer working.
So... well, yeah, it's been an eventful last three or four days, though Saturday was mostly household tasks of cleaning and finally doing the damn hemming I've been putting off for a couple months. Tomorrow morning I have a dentist cleaning at 9 in the goddamn which, ugh. And then it's back to business as usual somehow. Classwork, labs, classwork, labs, learning more things. With more confidence that I can do a special project now.
It's good. I'm good. It's two weeks till voting ends and that's a damn travesty, but in the immediate... it's good.
He struggled less than I expected! So much less that I kept walking, in the noble tradition of once you have the feral cat keep moving the feral cat until it is where you want it to go as long as you're not getting ribboned while doing it, down the hall and up the stairs and into the craft-now-quarantine room with the boy closing and opening doors around me. I put him down. Cassius meowed a loud hello. We sat in the room with them for a while, we watched him scuttle around and try to hide, we watched Cassius go up to him in case they fought. Cassius's attitude was, I think I can best sum it up as, "HI BUDDY! YOU'LL LOVE IT HERE THEY FEED US AND THERE'S NO RACCOONS AND IT'S NICE AND COZY AND DRY!" Barton's attitude was "I'm sulking in a corner fuck off."
But by the end of the day he's letting me pet him, purring, actively participating in the petting so I know he's not just purring to self-soothe, licking my hand, eating treats, and while he's still sulking in one of the makeshift caves under shelves and between boxes that we left for them, I feel safe in expecting him to eventually come out and eat when he's hungry, drink when he's thirsty. And he knows what a litter box is, we've seen him use the old ones we leave outside for drip catching. Next challenge, introducing them both to the other cats. So far it's mostly stand in the doorway with Bat Cat in arms letting him look and them look at him.
There thankfully hasn't been much other news lately. I finished the project, I'd had it finished by Friday except the refactoring, which took ten minutes, the blog post, which took about two hours but most of that was getting wordpress to work right, and the video, which took forever to work up the courage to actually shoot and talk through. Gah. I hate that, I don't want to do it again, I'm going to have to do it at least four more times. Ugh. But that's done, and now I can move on.
(Or I can as soon as I upload everything, ahahah, I was so nervous about doing the video presentation I forgot to upload it. WHOOPS. Okay, that's done now.)
... gah, did I not update on Friday? I didn't update on Friday. Friday was, admittedly, kind of a mess. Friday was an early morning vet appointment, followed by hitting up another pharmacy for Murdock's blood sugar sensor, followed by hitting up Home Depot because the kitchen fluorescents were finally down to I think two? They're long tube fluorescents, and they lasted a good 7-8 years but they were burning out, so we needed to get more before we were left with one overhead regular bulb in our high-ceilinged giant kitchen. And Staples, because my long-awaited printer had finally just been cancelled by them (ugh) and I was not going to mail order this again. I had two printer ink cartridge sets that were now useless to me, wasn't going to do it again, was going to go to Staples and get a printer that I could put my hot little hands on in that moment. So now that's set up, it mostly fits in the printer alcove except for needing a small pedestal because it's got a front-loading paper tray and the slide-out tray for
So... well, yeah, it's been an eventful last three or four days, though Saturday was mostly household tasks of cleaning and finally doing the damn hemming I've been putting off for a couple months. Tomorrow morning I have a dentist cleaning at 9 in the goddamn which, ugh. And then it's back to business as usual somehow. Classwork, labs, classwork, labs, learning more things. With more confidence that I can do a special project now.
It's good. I'm good. It's two weeks till voting ends and that's a damn travesty, but in the immediate... it's good.