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Mar. 5th, 2018 09:31 amNot feeling it this week, either. Right now I would settle for two 40-degree sunny days in a row.
Remembering the Good Things, however: the Hairy Beasts kept their dinners down on Saturday night, after both deciding not to on Friday night. I don't know if it was the weather or that can of cat food or what, but I changed the cat food, the dishes and the dishing-out spoon on Saturday and everybody's dinner stayed where it belonged. When the scientific method comes up against two cats' worth of wet food barf, the scientific method will lose. (And I might have figured out what Lily's problem with crunchies is. For some reason she seems to have taken against the bowl she's been eating out of for ten years or so. She'll eat crunchies off the plate she eats her chicken wet food off.)
Also, yesterday I spent most of the afternoon playing Civ 5 for the first time in ages. It didn't work with High Sierra until February and when it did, it was painfully slow. But it seems to be better now, and I had a game I left off with in 850 AD and was enjoying quite a lot. It helps that I'm on a continent with an isthmus in the middle and I have a city parked on the isthmus, so I'm all over one half and containing the Greeks on the other. And I left the barbarians turned on for this game, so I have a pretty good military force. I stopped in 1870 or so (because I had to feed the cats) and am debating whether to declare war on the Greeks who don't like me anyway.
So far The Book of the New Sun is interesting enough to keep going with (I'm partway through the second book), but I'm annoyed at the main character who is an executioner complete with great big sharp sword he's never without, who knows another (incidental) character is trying to kill him, who knows which other character is trying to kill him, and who keeps not doing anything about it every chance he gets. And he's had three chances so far.
The ring I bought in Iceland is giving me dermatitis after two years. GRR. I want to keep wearing that ring, but I guess I'll have to get it coated with something. I wonder if clear nail polish would work, or if this is "take it to a jeweler and have it plated with something" territory.
Remembering the Good Things, however: the Hairy Beasts kept their dinners down on Saturday night, after both deciding not to on Friday night. I don't know if it was the weather or that can of cat food or what, but I changed the cat food, the dishes and the dishing-out spoon on Saturday and everybody's dinner stayed where it belonged. When the scientific method comes up against two cats' worth of wet food barf, the scientific method will lose. (And I might have figured out what Lily's problem with crunchies is. For some reason she seems to have taken against the bowl she's been eating out of for ten years or so. She'll eat crunchies off the plate she eats her chicken wet food off.)
Also, yesterday I spent most of the afternoon playing Civ 5 for the first time in ages. It didn't work with High Sierra until February and when it did, it was painfully slow. But it seems to be better now, and I had a game I left off with in 850 AD and was enjoying quite a lot. It helps that I'm on a continent with an isthmus in the middle and I have a city parked on the isthmus, so I'm all over one half and containing the Greeks on the other. And I left the barbarians turned on for this game, so I have a pretty good military force. I stopped in 1870 or so (because I had to feed the cats) and am debating whether to declare war on the Greeks who don't like me anyway.
So far The Book of the New Sun is interesting enough to keep going with (I'm partway through the second book), but I'm annoyed at the main character who is an executioner complete with great big sharp sword he's never without, who knows another (incidental) character is trying to kill him, who knows which other character is trying to kill him, and who keeps not doing anything about it every chance he gets. And he's had three chances so far.
The ring I bought in Iceland is giving me dermatitis after two years. GRR. I want to keep wearing that ring, but I guess I'll have to get it coated with something. I wonder if clear nail polish would work, or if this is "take it to a jeweler and have it plated with something" territory.
