A Picture’s Worth 1000 Entries

I made the mistake of leaving the Clueless Wonder’s food down on the floor when I left the apartment this morning. He won’t eat it, but Kitten from Hell will. Which means that KfH is going to be one very happy hellion this morning. Meanwhile, CW is going to be one very hungry cat if…

I welcomed in the New Year with continued dysentery the color and consistency of split pea soup. The Prof has suggested I rename this journal to “Salamander’s Diarya” (say it out loud if you don’t get the joke). Several doses of Imodium later (taken as directed, one after each bowel movement, not to exceed four…

OK, I got curious. If one is “hapless”, then what is “hap”? Immediate guess was “hap” as in “happy”, or “with hap”. This would make “hap” the gladsome quality a happy person possesses. That didn’t quite fit the definition of hapless as I knew it though, so I poked about on the web and discovered…

I’m still playing catch-up at work. A truism: One never truly gets vacation. One simply gets the opportunity to put off a week’s worth of work so that they can do two weeks’ worth of work the next week. While I was away, the morning glory vines executed a successful junta, and have now completely…

A small grey kitten, its head twisted nearly one-hundred and eighty degrees, with its forehead pressed against my chest. Heavy, gurgly purrs while I stratch that spot under the chin that is so awkwardly presented for attention. Eight little talons on her back-legs, giving her the assurance she needs that she isn’t going to slip…

I get to add one more condition to my personal list of “been there, done that”. My A1C came back as clearly diabetic. This isn’t funny anymore.