Essay question: What did I do on my birthday?
Mood:  special
Topic: It's all about me
Chatted on IRC. Told everyone in the #bearcave that it was my birthday. Received a generally mild response.

Looked at porn, but was not particularly moved by it.

Did a little work on a gaming project that should be occupying my time for a month or so. But it gave me a headache so I decided to be lazy and put it off til later. Printed up a bunch of the stuff for it so it would be easier to work with than a pdf.

Played with our mass of kitties until sunrise, then booted the 4 big ones outside.

Said good morning/goodbye to the hubby on his way out to work.

Put drops in my ear. Fell asleep with the little bottle in my hand. Woke up later and looked for it, but couldn't find it so I went back to sleep. Woke up a little bit later because I was laying on it, so I put drops in the other ear and waited for about 20 minutes before letting the stuff drip out so I could go back to sleep.

Woke up sometime around 3 and had breakfast. Went out to feed the 2 penned up calves because I had forgot to the day before. Discovered that the sickly one had died in the barn, which we knew was going to happen anyway. Fed the other one.

Continued my daily routine - moved the water to the next tree and got the mail. Waved hello to our neighbor as he drove by.

Fed the little caged kitties in the house and petted Rocky, trying to get that little bastard to bond.

Basically bummed around the house watching TV because it was too hot and sticky to even want to think about doing anything. When the hubby got home I was introduced to yet another new kitty rescue. Named this one Jet - it's still pretty wary of me.

Since the hubby brought me ice cream (Caramel Turtle Fudge - Blue Bell, of course) the day improved quite a bit. Put it in the freezer to get solid again. Also got a 6-pack of peanut butter cups and some gum - promptly ate one pack of the cups.

Got a call from the hubby's office girlfriend. She had managed to catch the 4th of the litter that she'd been sending over and wanted to know if she could bring it by. I said yes, and now we have 9 kitties total.

Finally remembered to tell the hubby that the calf died, so he had to go out and put a chain on its legs to drag it out of the barn. I was busy feeding the latest kitty (as yet unnamed) from the bottle to get it perked up a bit. When I was done with that I went out to help and saw our neighbor lending a hand. Helped them get the calf dragged out, then got to getting the pens situated while the hubby dragged the calf out in the field to let nature take its course. It got stormy and rained a bit.

Got out the sprayer and sprayed some weeds that were getting out of control.

Decided that I didn't have to be health conscious on my birthday and had a big bowl of cheese dip with tortilla chips for dinner. Followed this up with a bowl of ice cream. MMMmmmmm...

Hubby and I played with the kitties for a while, but he had to take over when the phone calls came in. Talked to the fam and did the birthday thing with them.

Put the hubby to bed. 'Nuff said.

Put the big 4 kitties back outside so they can acclimate to living outside at night. Petted on the tiny 4 a little bit, but the 3 new ones are still leery of me.

Got online and cleared out the spam box before going on IRC again.

Now is that exciting of what?

Bake a fucking cake
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: It's all about me
I'm 32 now. There is no ice cream or cake in the house. Something is dreadfully wrong.

Hey! You! Make with the singing!

It's a book review, don't get excited
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Brain candy
Finished reading Vinge's Dreamfall last night. Not a bad book. It's the end of a trilogy that started with the book Psion, which I remember reading a very long time ago. Apparently there's something wrong with that book though, because she's doing a rewrite on it. Now I kinda wish I had a copy of the original version so I can see what the differences will be.

Anyway, Dreamfall was pretty good. After reading the blurb I was a bit leery of the subject, because it talks about cloud-whales and a residue of solid thought, and that sort of nudged my fantasy-hippiecrap button. I picked the book up anyway, since I liked the previous two in the series, and I was happy to see she managed to make this story interesting and not hokey.

There is one small complaint though. I don't know why, but it seemed like she had to use the word 'murmur' on every page. Hardly anybody said anything, because apparently they were all embarrassed and shy and murmuring at each other. I know it's nice to break up the monotony and not use 'said' every time somebody speaks - but really, all the murmuration got a little silly towards the end. Speak up people!

Other than that, enjoyed it quite a bit, and I plan to get the other 2 books in my library so I can read all 3 through like I like to do with good trilogy sets.

Number 7
Mood:  hug me
Topic: Life in Texas
One of little Cid's littermates was found and delivered here today. They're almost identical, tho I have yet to determine this new one's gender. I'm naming it Rocky.

Rocky, being a bit older, is not as trusting as Cid was initially. We'll fix that in the coming days. I had to set up the cage again, and now the two of them are in it. For some reason Cid has yet to cooperate with me and be all friendly to his newfound littermate. We'll fix that as well.

That's quite enough kitties now. You can quit sending them my way.

Death to the colony
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: Bitchy rants
Again with the fucking ear infection! Do I have to pull a Van Gogh and just lop the damn thing off?

At least I didn't have to waste time going to the doctor. The hubby just called in and got a prescription set up for me. New drops this time. One can only hope they'll kill the motherfuckers for longer than a couple weeks this time around.

And believe me, a rant will be posted if the other ear starts acting up. Bastard bacteria! DIE ALREADY!

Under the weather
Mood:  on fire
Topic: Life in Texas
Today was a fairly nice day, finally. The past couple days have been pure sticky misery. The weather has been entirely uncooperative. It's been sickeningly humid, and it actually spit a little rain on us, but not enough to cool anything off or to get us ready to replant the fields. Using the swamp cooler is basically useless, since it just makes the air stickier. I have the window right near me open right now and it's not doing a thing for the miserable staleness in here. And I know it's nice outside right now. Hell, if I could get the phone cord to go out the window I'd be posting this from outside.

Rain dammit!

That Eris number had to happen
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: Life in Texas
No, just couldn't have only 1 new kitty. The neighbor came by tonight and delivered 4 more. At least these ones aren't bottle babies still. They're so cute! They live behind the fridge right now, like every other little kitty when they first come in the house. I suppose I could go in the kitchen and chirp at them to get them to come out, but I think I'll let them snooze a while.

Our cat count has now risen to 6.

Momma time again
Mood:  bright
Topic: Life in Texas
I've got another baby kitty to play momma to. He's this cute little ball of black fluff with white trim. I don't know what his name is yet, he's still a little too little to tell. I had to do the wet washcloth bit to get his eyes ungooped, but now he's looking around and being adorable. He's taking a bottle so far, and I'm hoping that by tomorrow he'll be eating some solid food. At least this time around he's not a helpless starving rescue near death.

A new pet, sort of
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Life in Texas
We've got a praying mantis living on our kitchen window. I saw it about a week ago hanging out in the office - I tried to get it to go outside, but failed miserably. I guess it decided the long climb up the counter was worth it, because it's been climbing around the window the past few days.

The hubby was concerned that it might starve to death, but the window is a major draw for those annoying flies that we get now due to the explosion of dairy farms around here. (Okay yes, we had plenty before, but now we're getting even more.) I just came in here from the kitchen after watching it stalk a fly. It took too long and I got bored, so I figured I'd pop in here and post this little bit about it.

I don't think I'm gonna name it. I doubt it would even appreciate the notion. I'll just let it live there as long as it wants (and as long as it doesn't decide to freak me out for no discernable reason). Hopefully it'll keep the nasty bug population down.

Pretty accurate actually
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Various webshit

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