I’ve been meaning to update, but … well … it just hasn’t happened. It ain’t happening today either. Here’s a non-update.

Things I’ve learned in the past week: – Cat don’t like getting pins poked into their ears– Cat ears bruise pretty easily– Cat ears only bleed about 25% of the time after being poked– A cat that has endured a full week of ear-poking without even once thinking about biting the hand that pokes it…

Vogue Thank you for your individuality, your loyalty, and for all the stories you’ve starred in. Your people will miss you greatly, but you left a cat-shaped hole in other hearts as well.

Listening to Gene Shay’s Sunday night folk show on WXPN while torching some soup for dinner. Quiet end to the weekend. I’ve tried to get multiple glucose readings on Satan’s Little Fart Cloud today, but I also had to bath her, which I’m hoping is why the afternoon readings are a little high. After this…

Here’s the SLFC picture I would have posted yesterday. I’ve discovered, to my dismay, that the Purina DM diet has less protein and more carbs than the EVO diet I was already feeding. Must discuss with my vet before she goes on maternity leave in two weeks. Still not working, I see. *grumble*

And apparently Hamipik is down. Guess I won’t be adding any pictures of SLFC to this entry.

If I was reading this in any other person’s journal, I’d suspect the veracity of the storyteller. At the very least I’d wonder if the author was suffering Munchausen’s by proxy. Satan’s Little Fart Cloud was confirmed today to be diabetic. We’ve worried about this for the last year and a half because of the…

Tendon release surgery went well Wednesday. I came out of anesthesia with a dry nose that turned very drippy in the recovery room; by the time I woke up Thursday morning it was a full-blown head cold. I must have been ready to break with the cold going into surgery. Hand-wise things are going well….

I leave for the hospital in a couple of hours for outpatient surgery to get this damned tendonitis fixed. I’ve missed being a primate; I’m looking forward to getting my thumb back again.

There’s a new Vorkosigan coming out tomorrow. I’ve heard at least one rumor that a major character dies. For what it’s worth. As for me, it’ll give me something to do while recovering from hand surgery, scheduled Wednesday.