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Sep. 11th, 2023 09:27 pmAnd the cat drama continues! Still largely drama of the outside cat variety, the most drama there is inside the house is one cat getting pissy because another cat wants to play and the first cat doesn't want to, so a corrective slap is issued. Outside, on the other hand, I've come to find there's a second black cat sniffing around the front of the house. The second black cat is not a Felix Doe as far as I can tell, it's known to us as Tailypo because it has a bobbed no-tail. (The tailypo is an Appalachian folktale with a wikipedia entry.) Tailypo came around today, sniffed around the front stoop, and casually walked off towards the neighbor's yard. Tailypo also, to my eyes and considering it came up pretty close to the front door, very healthy looking and well-fed, so I'm less worried about that one needing to get caught and returned or adopted out.
But Felix Doe is still coming around, I saw it with its feathery tail after Tailypo had left, so tomorrow we're going to try and trap it. From there we take it to the 24 hour vet (because by the time there's a car at the house again our regular vet will be closed) and get it wanded for a chip, if there's no chip I'm going to request that they vaccinate the silly bugger, assuming that won't result in adverse effects, and we'll possibly host it long enough to get it fixed. And then we will be adopting it out because there is no more room at the in, Felix Doe, I'm sorry, there just isn't. I'm sure you're very sweet. But no.
Other than that I can't really say much has been going on. I've finished the Singing Hills series as far as it's come, which is good timing because the new book is supposed to come out tomorrow. I'm now on to A Deadly Education, which is the first of Naomi Novik's actual published books that I've ever read. It's all a bit of an odd feeling, but I'm trying to take a more active approach to actually reading books now.
I am also having a problem with going to sleep before 2am, which is partially my fault of staying up till about 12:30 and also partially just I can't seem to actually fall asleep once I go to bed, despite being tired. I lay there and almost drift off and then I jerk back awake again. As a first step I'm going to try throwing some valerian at the problem an hour or two before I actually want to fall asleep. It usually works, and for once I'm not having any trouble staying asleep, so that should be fine.
Yeah. other than that life has largely been boring, which is nice. I like it when the biggest drama in my life is oh no I forgot to take some meat out to defrost for dinner, or, oh shoot the bread I was going to eat for lunch has gone moldy, or oh great a hairball I found with my foot.
I was too tired to do a bunch of things I've meant to do today, so a short list of things I want to get done over the next couple of days (other than trap the cat) and then we'll call it good. Let's see. I want to make a tumblr post to give away some copies of She Wolf and Cub by Lilith Saintcrow. I want to read over another Blasted Lands story and make a list of all the concepts and characters and places I need to write up. I want to draw out the map of the city for Bones of the Labyrinth. I want to make some progress on my American Sign Language course. I want to read some Gatsby for the novella and some Deadly Education for my own pleasure. I want to sit down and paint some minis. I think that's good enough to be going on with for the rest of the week.
But Felix Doe is still coming around, I saw it with its feathery tail after Tailypo had left, so tomorrow we're going to try and trap it. From there we take it to the 24 hour vet (because by the time there's a car at the house again our regular vet will be closed) and get it wanded for a chip, if there's no chip I'm going to request that they vaccinate the silly bugger, assuming that won't result in adverse effects, and we'll possibly host it long enough to get it fixed. And then we will be adopting it out because there is no more room at the in, Felix Doe, I'm sorry, there just isn't. I'm sure you're very sweet. But no.
Other than that I can't really say much has been going on. I've finished the Singing Hills series as far as it's come, which is good timing because the new book is supposed to come out tomorrow. I'm now on to A Deadly Education, which is the first of Naomi Novik's actual published books that I've ever read. It's all a bit of an odd feeling, but I'm trying to take a more active approach to actually reading books now.
I am also having a problem with going to sleep before 2am, which is partially my fault of staying up till about 12:30 and also partially just I can't seem to actually fall asleep once I go to bed, despite being tired. I lay there and almost drift off and then I jerk back awake again. As a first step I'm going to try throwing some valerian at the problem an hour or two before I actually want to fall asleep. It usually works, and for once I'm not having any trouble staying asleep, so that should be fine.
Yeah. other than that life has largely been boring, which is nice. I like it when the biggest drama in my life is oh no I forgot to take some meat out to defrost for dinner, or, oh shoot the bread I was going to eat for lunch has gone moldy, or oh great a hairball I found with my foot.
I was too tired to do a bunch of things I've meant to do today, so a short list of things I want to get done over the next couple of days (other than trap the cat) and then we'll call it good. Let's see. I want to make a tumblr post to give away some copies of She Wolf and Cub by Lilith Saintcrow. I want to read over another Blasted Lands story and make a list of all the concepts and characters and places I need to write up. I want to draw out the map of the city for Bones of the Labyrinth. I want to make some progress on my American Sign Language course. I want to read some Gatsby for the novella and some Deadly Education for my own pleasure. I want to sit down and paint some minis. I think that's good enough to be going on with for the rest of the week.