Remember when I first got Steve and he never meowed? He was just saving it up. Chattiest cat ever.
Three earworms I have had all day:
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Remember when I first got Steve and he never meowed? He was just saving it up. Chattiest cat ever.
Three earworms I have had all day:
Random.
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Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Cat and mouse armor
mellowjohn
love maine coons. we’ve had two, and it’s almost like they want to carry on a conversation with you.
Mary G
Can we haz a video/audio of Steve, please, please pretty please???
PsiFighter37
Evacuate the motherfucking dance floor.
PF37 +2 glasses +10 beer samplers
ruemara
@PsiFighter37: Your liver must be a monument to good health and genes.
Joseph Nobles
Girl Parts: An Apology For Why The Doctor Should Not Have Them and Sisters Need To Get Their Own
From a lady nerd friend of mine. I’m a nerd, too, plus the warning she wrote with her own hand: “WARNING! The following assumes knowledge of and/or sufficient indifference to plot elements throughout Doctor Who’s 50-year history to render spoilers harmless.” So I’m sure she’s cool with the title. It’s a good read!
Redshirt
Whew. No weirdly sexual overtones to this cat post.
TaMara (BHF)
@ruemara: If he hadn’t shown up and been photographed at a meet-up, I would have believed he was a fictional character.
Party on, mr. psi
I second the request for cat-talk video.
NotMax
Who knew?
Yes, Wikipedia has a page about earworm.
Never experienced such an occurrence myself.
PsiFighter37
EVACUATE the MFing DANCE FLOOR!
Also, too, I hope Edward Snowden enjoys motherfucking Siberia. It’d be kind of fun if Putin sends his stupid scrawny ass out there to try and decrease the increase of methane release.
Stupid fucking shithead.
PsiFighter37
@ruemara: Last day in Hawaii. YOLO and all that swag, ya know
RobertDSC-Power Mac G4 Dual 1.0
Wasabi Gasp, you asked about the Power PC love in a thread the other day. I didn’t get a chance to reply so I’m doing it here.
For my money, I can still get by on just about everything with a G4 or G5 machine. My main machine is a G5 2.0 DP with 2.5 GB of RAM. I can do web browsing, email, iTunes, graphic design and page layout (with the free CS2 package from Adobe) video recording at 640×480, photo organization using GraphicConverter, iPhoto,and iView Media Pro, basic QuickTime editing for Youtube, DVD and video conversion to portable MP4 format, and if I were to look around hard enough, audio work using Pro Tools and video editing using Final Cut Pro.
The only thing I can’t do very well is run HD video (720p works up to a point, 1080p won’t very well) and view some websites that have high end Flash or graphic content like iCloud.com. Otherwise, I get through every day with them and am quite happy.
For example, I’m web browsing and using iTunes on the G4 Dual 1.0 DP Mac right now as I do photo sorting and wallpaper preparation on the G5. I have a 466 MHz with 2TB of drives inside for storage of the many files I’ve picked up over the years. That Mac was given to me instead of being thrown out by my old boss. I installed a new DVD burner, PCI IDE card, and six drives of various sizes to make it over. I’m very happy with it.
Howard Beale IV
The original Since you’ve been Gone
Howard Beale IV
And for those exposed to Gundam 00, an English fandub of Ash Like Snow that’s damn good.
Wag
Thanks for reminding me of the Producers. Hadn’t thought of that song in years an now iTunes is building a playlist.
BruceFromOhio
“By the Way,” Red Hot Chili Peppers was earlier.
“Name,” Goo Goo Dolls is now.
I think about you all the time.
Gravenstone
The local TV news now has a story up about my friend Karen and the struggles she and her family have dealt with.
If for some reason the direct link doesn’t work and you’re so inclined, just scan to the video about blood clotting research.
kindness
What is Steve telling you John?
Juju
I’ve had a very bad day today. I had to put my beautiful girl down about two hours ago at the vet school emergency center here in NC. It was all so sudden. She was fine until the 15th, then she got ill and kept going down hill. It took until today to figure out she had a liver cancer, and we had to do what was necessary. The last thing she saw was my face, and that’s exactly how I wanted things. When you love another being, the amount of time you have with them never seems long enough. I wanted to hug her for many more years, but you don’t always get what you want. I am so happy I got to spend as much time with her as I did.
Isabel aka Bizzy, was in this year’s calendar in July and in October. She is using her nickname “Pumpkin” in October.
I will miss her.
RobertDSC-Power Mac G4 Dual 1.0
I forgot to add that I do all of the above using 10.4.11 Tiger. I’ve found that 10.5.8 Leopard takes up too much memory for my tastes and looks really ugly without customization using CandyBar. In my experience, Tiger is very stable, I very rarely have any kind of trouble with kernel panics, and the memory usage is at the high end of acceptable.
I also decided to go nuts and use the old acrylic Apple Cinema/Studio displays. They’re harder to find than later models, but I’m happy with mine. This Mac also has the old Apple Pro Speakers for great sound. All of my Macs use the old Apple Pro Keyboard in black. I use Logitech mice for the G5 and the 466, and an Apple Mighty Mouse for this Mac.
All in all, I’m very happy with what I’ve built and been able to find over the past year. The G4 Dual 1.25 is in storage but I could use it right now if any of the other machines went out on me.
srv
Ben Affleck. Batman.
Jane2
@Juju: Condolences…my Trixie went the same way with cancer…healthy one day, dead the next week. It’s very tough…they’re family.
Jane2
@Gravenstone: Never heard of that disorder….Karen and her sister’s generosity in participating in the U Miami study may save others.
Liquid
*Cat not Meowing* is like the new bird my folks bought *You heard him sing! He sings! Give him a break!*
They’re out for two weeks and I’m looking after him. He’s just a little one, barely a year old. Well my feathered friend now that you’re in my power, allow me to introduce you to “Tweety.” A song-bird of another feather.
Felonius Monk
@PsiFighter37:
Considering your intake, wouldn’t you rather evacuate at the Pee-Pipe?
RobertDSC-Power Mac G4 Dual 1.0
@Juju:
My condolences on your loss.
ranchandsyrup
@Juju: Condolences. Glad you have great memories of her.
Botsplainer
@srv:
Next iteration, I’m begging them to name Eddie Izzard as the Batman.
Gravenstone
@Jane2: It’s apparently extremely rare. She told me after she’d been diagnosed (and the Miami researchers had contacted her) that there were fewer than a dozen families identified with it worldwide.
scav
@Botsplainer: Eddie Izzard?! That could be fun in multiple directions. Holy Revengers Tragedy.
Felonius Monk
Sorry, John — Robert Palmer doesn’t cut it. The original is better!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Wag:
Are you..Wha..NO!
Please don’t encourage that sort of thing.
Dead Ernest
@Juju:
Juju, so sorry. Hope the sharp pain quiets to the minimally better ‘ache’ soon.
My most cherished feline companion has been gone over 15 years now and the sadness is balanced some by the cherished memories. Still, the loss can be so sharp in the beginning. Wishing you well.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
My earworm for the last few days has been Marty Robbins’ El Paso.
TaMara (BHF)
@Juju: Big hugs. It’s never easy. You loved her enough to be with her and I’m sure she knew it. My childhood Dalmatian had the same thing. I miss her and she’s been gone 40+ years.
Many furry critters both feline and canine have come and gone in my life since then…each as cherished as the other. They leave big paw prints in our hearts, don’t they? More big cyber hugs…
Mnemosyne
Got to spend a fun, fun day at an SAP users conference and my brain is fried. Now I need to go for a walk so I can get the rest of my 10,000 steps in (I have about 1,700 to go).
At least I can sleep in a little tomorrow before my organizer arrives. (Yes, I have someone helping me de-clutter and re-organize the apartment. It’s slow going, to say the least.)
Steeplejack
“Green Tambourine” was the best of the Lemon Pipers. I shudder to think what’s on the rest of that album.
On the other hand, I just turned on my Sirius radio and found that it’s on the “Watercolors” channel, i.e., smooth jazz. Dunno how that happened. Ahem.
SIA
@Juju: So sorry. A lot of us have been there. Take care of yourself.
gbear
Best kept secret on Balloon Juice is that there’s a Twin Cities meetup at Shamrocks Grille at 995 West 7th Street in St. Paul tomorrow at 5:00pm. So far there are two of us confirmed to be there, and I’m not telling you who the other person is. It’s been popping up in various threads for the last few days but it appears to be a sleeper. Be part of a select few and have one of the best burgers in town.
gbear
@Steeplejack: I’ve got a vinyl record that is half songs by The Lemon Pipers and the other half by the 1910 Fruitgum Company. I haven’t listened to it for a while. Green Tambourine is the only Lemon Pipers song I can think of.
lamh36
It’s going down in the NO. Time again for the for the annual party for the two elder set of twin siblings of my mom. Im ready to head out.
http://t.co/18MQTAx6O4
gbear
@gbear: FY WordPress and FY Mapquest too. The link doesn’t work.
Liquid
A bone to pick with Cole-Bear — GoT season 2 commentary — Lena Heady is the kind of woman that forces me to my knees and thank God I’m a man!
katie5
Just came back from seeing The World’s End. Best sf movie of the year. Possibly better than Shaun of the Dead. Music’s great in it too. Soup Dragons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVGf3ePIO04
YellowJournalism
I had to listen to many differen raunchy/corny versions of it, so I had the “My Little Pony” song in my head most of the day. What’s weird is how I started the morning with Eminem’s “Without Me” running through my mind.
Steeplejack
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Love that song! One of my oldest musical memories. My mother had Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs and played it on the big Grundig hi-fi, along with Joan Baez and Patsy Cline. And the guitarist in “El Paso” was my first guitar-god crush, although I didn’t know who it was until years later—Grady Martin.
Also, “Big Iron.”
Steeplejack
@Juju:
My condolences. It’s hard to let them go.
gbear
@gbear: OK, no secrets: imonlylurking is going to be at Shamrocks too. He put this together and we’re hoping some other folks can make it.
Howard Beale IV
@gbear: That’s a straight shot for me down 35E and County Road 96.
John Cole
@Juju: Awww, Juju, I am so sorry. Go out and rescue another kitty asap. I kept saying I would wait a while before adopting when Tunch was killed, and after just a couple days it was too long without a feline friend. Go to a shelter and start test driving mates. You don’t need to choose immediately.
And don’t worry about the idea you are trying to replace Juju. I worried about that after Tunch died, and when you think about it it is such a silly concern. We’re talking about cats, not golden retrievers- they have their own unique personalities, each and every one of them.
And the best part about it all- you are saving another life. What better way to honor the loss of a loved one than to save another life in their memory?
Steeplejack
@gbear:
My condolences. I presume it was a spiteful birthday gift from a frenemy in junior high.
I actually liked “Green Tambourine,” but the 1910 Fruit Gum Company and all the other bubblegum spawn—the Archies, the Ohio Express, etc.—were awful, even by the somewhat, er, catholic standards of the time.
Suzanne
@Juju: Hugs to you. Losing them is so hard, especially when it’s sudden. I hope you find some peace, and maybe a new friend when it’s time.
Steeplejack
@lamh36:
I wish I was going down there. New Orleans used to be the best eating town in the country. Maybe still is. I was thinking about the Central Grocery Store the other day as I was trying to come up with a decent olive relish for muffalettas.
Nice picture, too.
James E. Powell
@Felonius Monk:
Thanks. I never heard that one. Back in my bar band days, “Bad Case” was so g-d popular that I began to hate it. I’d make up my own words just to see if anyone was paying attention. (Every bar band singer does that, right?) They weren’t.
gbear
@Howard Beale IV: Yep, 35E should be pretty quick. In an earlier thread I was recommending that people don’t try to get there via 94 to Snelling or Lexington Avenues. State Fair traffic is going to be horrid there. Best to cross into St. Paul from Lake Street, Ford Parkway or via Fort Snelling.
Suzanne
I am laying around, still sore from yesterday. Huzzah for hydrocodone.
I cheated on my diet tonight and ate some bread and dipping sauce, and had some pasta in cream sauce. It was gross and I regret it. I need to get back on my weight loss path. The stress of the last 2-3 weeks has me occasionally freaking out on snack food. Argh.
Steeplejack
@gbear, @gbear:
Let me Google Maps that for you: Shamrocks Grill, St. Paul, MN.
newdealfarmgrrrlll
@gbear: I’m leaving work a tad early to be there.
scav
@Suzanne: Stress is also bad for the body. Don’t add to it by obsessing over self-medicinal pasta. It’s like random thoughts by the monkey mind in meditation. oh, that happened. how human. let it float away and return to stillness and non-noondleness.
Felonius Monk
@James E. Powell: Moon Martin wrote “Bad Case” and I’ve always liked his version better than Robert Palmer’s even tho’ Palmer’s was the big hit.
Funny about making up your own words. I think most people go for the booze, but tell themselves they are there for the music. I guess that sorta proves it. :)
FlipYrWhig
@John Cole: We lost one to heart problems (and back problems, and neurological problems, and thyroid problems) in January and one to kidney failure last August. For us it still feels too soon. Grief works on/through different people, and vice versa, in a multitude of ways.
So sorry Juju. You sound like you’re handling it really well so far.
Eljai
@Juju: I’m so sorry. It’s just so heartwrenching when it’s time to say good-bye. It sounds like you did everything you could and I’m sure you gave her a happy cuddly life. Take care.
Suzanne
@scav: I actually feel physically BAD. I don’t typically like cream sauces, and I decided to try it on the server’s recommendation, but my digestive system expressed some concern about that. And the pasta was overlooked and the sauce, despite being creamy, had very little flavor. I shoulda just freaked out on a cannoli and I would have been happier.
Hal
I live in upstate new York and work the evening shift; which basically means I regularly find myself going “poor kitty” while driving home along the highways and roads. Multiple cats meeting their end because of cars. It pisses me off that people let their cats roam around at night, though I’m sure some are strays. My favorite stray, a giant gray and white cat that must have been a good 15 to 20 pounds met his/her end a couple of months ago, but who ever hit it or found it placed the body on a big piece of cardboard and moved it from the road. Poor kitty. I’m pretty sure that cat kept the mice at bay since their are so many damn abandoned homes around here.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Steeplejack:
A guy I work with is from Mexico City. We communicate in bad Spanglish.* We’ve been talking about music lately. He’s usually playing conjunto, occasionally some ’60s rock (he really likes CCR). I was telling him about El Paso, because it’s very Mexican, musically. Hopefully he’ll check it out this weekend and get back to me on Lunes. But for now, it’s stuck between my ears.
*Jebus, it took us too long to figure out that Sesame Street is Plaza Sésamo in Mexico. All of a sudden he knows Big Bird and Cookie Monster. All the fucking pantomime I had to do for want of translation…
scav
@Suzanne: Ouch. That is sad. Therapeutic joyous jaunts off the wagon should at least taste good.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): El Paso as an earworm? My condolences.
Mnemosyne
@Suzanne:
Yeah, if you’re going to fall off the WW wagon, it always sucks to discover three bites in that it just wasn’t worth it. Next time, hold out for the cannoli.
PsiFighter37
Just finished dinner in Kona. Depressed because I have to leave in a couple hours to go back to the mainland. Also, way too many tourists in this part of the island. Glad I stayed further north.
Aloha and goodnight, bitches
Omnes Omnibus
@PsiFighter37: Hey, my parents in their early 70s are heading out there in November. Any recommendations of bars and/or clubs for them?
Suzanne
@Mnemosyne: Yes. Definitely.
I just want to get back on the stick. By mud-week, I tend to freak out and eat a shit-ton of crackers.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: Crackers? Leave Cole alone; you are married.
wasabi gasp
@RobertDSC-Power Mac G4 Dual 1.0: Wow, what a reply. I went back to the old thread to check, but just assumed the thread rolled into the sunset. Thank you for this.
In my experience, the declining browser experience on the older Macs oftentimes caused the most significant graying. After your previous comment, I was curious about the current browser options. As best as I can tell, it appears that Safari for PowerPC is no longer maintained. Looking around, I found TenFourFox is filling the Firefox gap. What is your preferred browser?
Mnemosyne
@Suzanne:
Although the people in my WW group have started accusing me of having stock in the website, I’m really liking Slender Kitchen‘s meal plans. It makes it harder to go off the rails when you already have the food in your fridge ready to eat (or at least available to easily make into edible things).
ETA: Some people like The Six O’Clock Scramble, which is also WW-friendly.
Yatsuno
@PsiFighter37: Impulse control. I no haz it.
RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual
@wasabi gasp:
Since I use 10.4.11, the vast majority of my browser time is spent in TenFourFox. It has the most options for mass downloading and Youtube video retrieval and works well for me across all of my machines. If you use the about::config trick to enable plugins, you can get Flash to play in the window.
I also use Safari, but it’s a mess with animated GIFs, something I run into a lot of on one board I read. It has the best feature I haven’t seen anywhere else, though: an option to save an image directly to my Downloads folder instead of having to say yes in a dialog box.
Until very recently, Camino was being developed. Now it’s no longer supported but is rock solid. On my 466 G4, I turn off JavaScript and Camino doesn’t bat an eyelash. It gets through most stuff with nary a problem.
I don’t use the actual Firefox app, but TenFourFox and Camino are derivatives. The actual app has error messages for plugins that irritate the hell out of me. Yes, I know the Flash plugin is outdated. I don’t need a yellow bar across the page telling me so every time I visit a Flash-centric page.
wasabi gasp
@Juju: Hugs for you. So sorry.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
So…as if I weren’t already pissed off at life tonight, I found out that Faux News decided that Robert Zimmerman, you know who’s brother, was the perfect guy to talk about the shooting of the Aussie baseball player. His response? Racism isn’t the problem, Black Violence is. In other words, if blacks weren’t such inherently violent savages, racism wouldn’t be a thing and none of this would ever happen. You know, forget the fact that one guy was half-white, and the other completely white.
The fact that this assstain was treated as authoritative because his brother was, you know, oh so wronged by the real racism of black super-thuggery is bad enough but expected. I just for the live of me can’t handle how it seems 90% of the goddamn country seems to have swung so goddamn hard toward this direction of thinking now judging by the way everyone responds to this shit. I spent at least a good hour trying to calm down from sputtering rage after seeing one too many goddamned echoes of this shit, and now I just feel…empty and defeated. It just feels like we’re backsliding rapidly as a country over this kind of shit. It may be a “last gasp” deal but it still feels like it’s going to ruin the country before it burns out precisely because of who’s embracing it now and how hard and openly they are.
Omnes Omnibus
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: Why were you watching Fox News? Do you hate yourself?
Yatsuno
@Omnes Omnibus: Accidents do happen. Curiosity and cats and such. Also. Too.
Mnemosyne
Sittin’ around waiting for my Fitbit to finish charging. Should be almost there. I have farm-fresh eggs from my CSA basket waiting to be scrambled for breakfast tomorrow — yummy!
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@Omnes Omnibus:
I wasn’t watching it, it was mentioned in a story about the shooting and the issues surrounding it, like how everyone and their goddam mother wants to turn it into the “white Trayvon Martin” story. And god help me it seems like 90% of people’s reaction to the story seems to echo Zimmerman’s sentiment which is abhorrent enough without seeming so much of the goddamn public seem to parrot him
Death Panel Truck
Hey Cole – If you haven’t seen this already, this is pretty funny:
How German Sounds Compared To Other Languages (Part 3)
Mnemosyne
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
It would be nice if at least one or two people talking about the Zimmerman case would at least mention that the indignation originally arose because he was released without being so much as charged, but that whole part of the story seems to have vanished down the memory hole.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno: In a previous thread, I mentioned that I will not ride a Ninja-type sport bike because I would die. My love of speed and curiosity about just how fast I can go would make me open the throttle. I just won’t get on one. I know about 110-120 mph is about my real physical limit. But what would 180 mph feel like?
Not worth it. But I am an idiot once faced with temptation, so I will not even swing a leg over one of those bikes.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@Mnemosyne:
They still mention it, but only in the hindsight of “see, he was released for a reason, you goddamned reverse racist thug lovers!!!”
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
That’s kind of humorous. Sitting while waiting to be able to count steps while walking.
Omnes Omnibus
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: My mother, a retired teacher, has been known to point out how not very bright the average person is and then note that half of the population is below average. The thing is, many of those average and below people are decent and well meaning. We just need to reach them.
wasabi gasp
@RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual: Thanks for the reply, Robert. And the Camino pointer.
When I finally get the gumption to resurrect the G4 I’m probably gonna go for Leopard, just because I’m a stubborn bastard. But, based on your repeated preference for Tiger, I’ll probably install Tiger on another disk partition as well.
Yatsuno
@Omnes Omnibus: I will not get on a motorcycle. At all. My father is pissed enough my youngest brother owns one. His best friend died on one. My older brother is named after him.
However, I was referring to Snarxist’s curiosity on leaving the channel where it was. Clear as mud I know.
(Edited because wrong brother. Long week, it has been.)
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
Ironically, I have found that while I’m charging it (which only needs to be done about once a week), I’m reluctant to get up and walk around because I’ll lose those steps for the day!
But the real reason I’m waiting around is that the one I have (Fitbit Flex) is one of the models that you wear 24/7, so I want it to be fully charged so the tiny computer can tell me how long I slept and how many times I was restless or woke up in the night.
ETA: Though I did already get to my 10,000 for the day, so any additional steps before bed are just gravy at this point.
wasabi gasp
I don’t seem to get earworms anymore. The one I would get most often is Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning” in the morning. Just as I woke. Boom. Right there. Hello.
No more, though. Been worm free for a while. But there’s definitely a little core rot going on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi_p_YxBKMI
Omnes Omnibus
@wasabi gasp: If Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning” gets stuck in my head, which it might, I will not be pleased.
wasabi gasp
@Omnes Omnibus: It just happens. You’ll see.
wasabi gasp
And now I’m back…to the core. Everybody likes disco, amirite?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWd_IgPZeQU
Disco is life.
seaboogie
@Juju: Juju…so very sorry for your loss. My beloved Seamus was also featured twice in the BJ calendar this year. He is the beautiful golden pictured in August (when he was born) and again in November (when he passed, at the age of 14). Beth (also my actual name) of Balloon Juice calendar fame was so helpful and supportive in including him, and those birth and death months were entirely coincidental, as I did not provide her with that info. That’s your serendipity for you.
Now just trying to get my 18-yr-old kitty Zoe – aka Miz Biz – to pee “inside the box”, but she missed twice today, and at this advanced age, it is all forgiveness, understanding and paper towels. Mentioned it to her a moment ago after she piddled (inside the box on the litter – yay!) and she went back to cover her pee (which she never does), and I was all “No sweetie, don’t worry about that, just try to keep your butt in the box when you do whatever you do.” Doesn’t matter anymore though….at this age for her I have infinite patience…
My heart reaches out to you, as I am sure that these small issues would be ones that you would happily entertain to still have Isabel with you. Relieving their suffering does give us a small amount of comfort as we adjust to the loss of their companionship. Just a little bit.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Now this is stuck in my head:
Warren Zevon Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
seaboogie
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I have no idea why, but I’ve got Helen Reddy’s “Delta Dawn” stuck in my ear…
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@seaboogie:
I hope not!
Tanya Tucker, maybe? Country Gothic. Good stuff. Bracket it with Ode To Billie Joe and this.
Klare
@Juju: My cat was sick today, minor I think. But gave us a brief scare. I am so sorry you had to put down your kitty. I have lost two in the past 15 years. They are such precious buddies. There were many touching stories last night when John posted about missing Tunch. You know it comforted your cat to see you at the end like that.
seaboogie
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Oh good doG – that pegged the awful meter and then some – how does a person even know about this? I had to google it, and it just got worse after that…
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@seaboogie:
That’s crazy talk. CRAZY TALK! That is the real deal.
Joseph Nobles
I’ve had an earworm for decades now. It’s called tinnitus. I imagine dealing with it is a lot like grief. It never goes away, but stuff has to get done.
seaboogie
@Joseph Nobles: That cannot be fun. Didn’t want you to end the thread AND have tinnitus too…off for a meeting between head and pillow…
wasabi gasp
@Omnes Omnibus: As I’m off to bed, I also consider how I’ve placed my morning in some jeopardy. You probably didn’t check out the video [LINK]. Me neither. But I don’t think that matters. It happens anyway. Don’t sing along is all I got. Sounds obvious, but whatever.
Juju
Thank you all for your soothing thoughts. It helps to know your best wishes are with me. I didn’t put it in the original post, unless you had the calendar to look at right then and there, but Isabel/Bizzy was a golden retriever blend. She was one of those dogs who was just meant to be with me. We had a very special bond. She was a rescue and had such a terrible life before she came to me, the woman who had her before I did burned her ears with cigarettes, amongst other things that we knew when we got her, or figured out along the way. In spite of all that Bizzy was one of the sweetest,loving,loveliest dogs around. All the vets who came in contact with her these past few weeks, fell in love with her just like I did. She was my very special girl. I hope I kissed those ears and loved that dog enough to make up for all she went through before she came to me. When we spent our last moments together and she had to be near me I am pretty sure that I did.
TaMara, thank you for the cyber hug. Seaboogie, I don’t have the calendar with me but I am pretty sure I remember Seamus. I tend to remember goldens. I love the BJ calendar, all those pets are beautiful. John, thank thank you for the thoughts. When I feel a bit more ready, I will l look for another rescue. I know there is another dog who needs me. I just have to find her. The rest of you, thank you again, it really does help.
The hardest part now will be returning without my girl, to an empty house and all that goes with that. I had to travel for the special diagnostic tools that the vet school has and I just couldn’t make it home last night.
Thank you all again.
Juju
seaboogie
@Juju: Oh my goodness, Juju…
I don’t know why I thought that Isabel/Bizzy was a cat….but a golden mix you say – and the ears? I remember every inch of Seamus’ body, and most especially his ears. So velvety, and after a bath the hairs behind the fold were all frippery, and the inside smelled like chocolate….don’t mean to make you any sadder than you are, but just want to tell you that I understand….big hug to you.
Betty Cracker
@Juju: What kind of person would burn a dog’s (or any animal’s) ears with cigarettes? That monster should be dragged through broken glass, dipped in sulfuric acid, rolled in a barrel of fire ants, stuffed into a cannon and fired into a toxic waste dump.
Now that I got my outrage out of the way, I’d like to say that I’m sorry for your loss.
Juju
@Betty Cracker: I don’t know, but I hope she gets everything she deserves. Thank you for your sympathetic vibes.
Juju
@seaboogie: The thoughts are the same when you lose a beloved pet. I think cat must have jumped to your mind because Bizzy is very much like Miz Biz, your cat. It’s my fault for not specifically mentioning Bizzy was a golden blend. It had only been a few hours after the event and I was not at my best. When I get home I’ll look at my calendar for Seamus’ picture. It will help cheer me some.
bill
The Lemon Pipers were one of Cincinnati’s hottest bands back in the day,but when they came out with “Green Tambourine,” fans like me just had to say, WTF?
wasabi gasp
I have the power now. Juice Newton isn’t the boss of me.
Clonus
@Felonius Monk:
Thanks for the Moon Martin link. I’m in the band.