Author: Salamander

If that last post looks to everyone else like it appears to me, I’d guess the bugs are starting to creep into DD.org.

La Salamandre I’ve elected to give Xanga a try – it does’t have the flexibility of the Old Dear Diary, but it lets me do a lot more formatting than the new DearDiary.Net does. Xanga is well established, has a good security rating, and seems to have a good support section. It did take me…

When Steve moved over to his new site, he changed the name of the old site from deardiary.net to deardiary.org. What he didn’t do is change any of the internal links on this original site to the new .org address. That means that when you try to use any links for this old site, you’ll…

I made the mistake of exporting this diary to the new site in December. I did it with some encouragement from others who had already tried the new site and were testing out the new features. I didn’t like the options available for customization there, and decided to linger her as long as possible in…

I’ve read that it’s estimated that one in 400 cats will become diabetic – I’ve read that a few places, though I’m not sure which study/ies are being cited. My own vet feels that diabetes in cats is on the rise, although I question whether it’s really on the rise or if pet owners are…

You know that plan to stick it out for at work for two years I mentioned in my last entry? I’m re-evaluating. I got the schedule for the next four weeks that afternoon. After next week, I’ve been cut back to two eight-hour shifts per week. No notice, no explanation, no nothing. When I approached…

So here’s my March to date: Work. Ambivalence, thy name is employment. I hesitate to complain, because I’m grateful this place hired me, I’m grateful that I’ve got some sort of income, I’m grateful that my social horizons now extend beyond a husband and a handful of cats. But I look at life as I…

As regular readers are aware, my LGS, the former Kitten from Hell, has been dealing with some serious medical issues over the last couple of years, the most recent being diabetes. She had been well controlled with twice-daily shots of insulin, although recently her blood sugar numbers have been climbing into the high 200’s to…

I never got my 1099 from the state for my unemployment from last year. I figured they didn’t technically have to be mailed until the last day of January, so I gave the statement until the end of the first week of February to arrive. It didn’t. I tried a couple of times last week…

I worked until midnight last night, then had to be up and moving at five this morning. I was due in at Big City Hospital at 8:30 this morning for the ninth of my annual post-transplant check-up. All went well, and they’re talking about cutting down the amount of immunosuppressants I’m taking. It’s hard to…