Marketprobe.com

This is just too weird. I’ve gotten over half a dozen hits in the past few days from the good people at Marketprobe.com, who are apparently running the word “Aspirus” through multiple search engines. The problem? Aspirus is a word I made up when I did that follow-up entry a few weeks back on Controlus…

Oh. My.

I was getting ready to leave the office tonight when the phone rang. It was somebody who works with my state’s APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services) branch of the USDA. This person had run a long term study at our facility, and we’d gotten to be friends while she was here. It seems…

Classless

Last evening was a madhouse. I didn’t get out of work until 4:30 for my 5:00 dentist appointment. Fortunately there was little traffic, so I wasn’t late. However…. My longer-time readers (you masochists know who you are) will recall my confession of several years back, when I made my first dental appointment in a long…

Brief and Insane

I have a dental appointment at 5:00 this afternoon (yuck) and was hoping to duck out a tad earlier than I need to for that so I can get some stuff signed at the doctor’s office. I’ve needed to get release forms signed there for three weeks now, but I can’t find the time to…

Cats and Fiction

I took the pictures from yesterday’s entry and emailed them to several key people in my company. For a brief time this morning I even though I had a home for Dekyi. The Big Boss (who has two cats already) saw the shots and expressed some interest. Within the hour he got back in touch…

Quarantine: Day One

I have some preliminary information back from the vet on the kitten. She was thirsty and ravenous, and has been tearing through all the food she’s been offered. I had requested they do an FIV/FeLV test on her, and she’s turned out to be negative for both diseases. A preliminary coag panel was also done…