Why I didn’t bother updating today:

Adding the meter didn’t turn out to be nearly as straightforward as I thought it would be. I’ve installed site meters before on web sites, and it’s perfectly a perfectly straitforward cut-and-paste job there. What should have been a simple cut-and-paste project here turned into a semi-complicated debug (OK, at least it was semi-complicated for…

The paracentesis went fairly straightforward yesterday. We only got around 3.1 liters this time; I can thank the new diuretic from preventing me from packing on too much water. I saw the nutritionist, who wants me to start increasing protein intake again. *sigh* First it’s eat a lot of protein, then eat sparingly, now eat…

Ziltoid was definitely a fifth instar in the last pictures. And he was a fifth instar on a mission. While I tried a couple of times yesterday to redirect Ziltie to a leaf or twig, he insisted on sitting on the inside of the glass bowl, making a little pile of webbing. Last night he…

One of the great signs of spring made its appearance in my area last week. It’s my favorite sign of spring, as a matter of fact. Yeah, crocuses and daffodils and robins and new green leaves are very nice. Potholes emerging on busy streets, with victimized hubcaps strewn haphazardly along the side of the road…

The Socialist and I are off for a few days of well-earned recreation. I’ll be MIA for at least three days, maybe more. I anticipate coming home to three very indignant kitties, but their sitter dotes on them. Even if they are indignant, I’m not going to take it too seriously. The sitter is entranced…

I’ve been listening to a lot of PRI radio these days. I go through phases of it. Eventually I get tired of listening to music radio, especially when none of the recent new releases grab my attention, and I’ll drift over to Terry Gross and Todd Mundt and Marty Moss-Coane. Then the time will come…