Messages between exhoicat and rbj
Fanks, and Happi Birfday to u too. Been kinda busy myself. Kuppykakes is habing a Howleen party dis weekend. Pleaze join in.
Fangkew 4 teh tombstone! (Ai just hope Basement Cat nawt reely ded...ai luvz himm.) An a belated Happee Burfday 2 ewez! Ai hazn't been payiin' attention 2 anyfing lately. Sew sorree. Hope it wuz a gud wun! (Mine sukked.)
Heh. Nice thing about dogs is they'll sleep through the night. Although Maggie is an early riser, and when she's awake, she'll stare at me. Sleeping in isn't so easy now.
O, hai. Fangkew 4 teh Saber Toof. I haven't been using the 'puter much lately. Pumpkin and Jerry-cat are keeping me hopping. Or maybe it's more like crawling. Pumpkin is quite small for a full-grown cat, but he can wake the ded galloping thru the house at 3 or 4 AM.... And I think I'm going to have to install a cat-flap on my bedroom door...cats hate closed doors.
First thing I thought of this morning was "it's Holiday on Ice, I remeber them." Best of luck in getting Pumpkin, maybe a limo service? How about a stretch limo so Pumpkin can ride in style. Best of luck there. Maggie at least got placed in a kennel when her previous owner died, same one I got Sparky form & where I board him, which is how they met, became friends and I wound up adopting her too.
"Company policy to travel with your skates? Were you in Icecapades?" Holiday On Ice...same kind of show as Capades and Follies, but our company oowned the patents for "portable" rinks (the compressors and all the rest of the equipment fit into two semi trucks, and there were two sets of those, so we could play buildings that didn't have ice arenas, and/or even set up outdoors...in the summertime. We played a lot of big fairs in the midwest in August and September, and I got acquainted with wildlife that I'd never heard of here in SoCal...like chiggers. Gack! I'm still trying to work out the logistics for getting Pumpkin back. No trains go anywhere near Grass Valley, and Amtrak doesn't allow pets of any kind, except service dogs, to travel in the passenger cars. I don't think I can get away with disguising a smallish ORNJ kitteh as a Guide Dog. I haven't checked with Greyhound, or any other bus company yet, but it looks like I'm going to have to pay for a rental car AND gasoline. AND it seems that I have been talked into adopting a second kitteh...elderly, toothless, abandoned by her hoomin's relatives when he (the hoomin) had to transfer from an assisted living place to a nursing home. They just stopped paying her boarding bills. That's so evil, and I'm a soft touch when it comes to four-legged friends in need. When I see how Pumpkin and Miss Kitty get along here, I still may go to the local shelter and adopt a kitten...I want a bebe-cat! They're so much fun, and I have found that neutered male cats make excellent foster mothers. Srsly. We'll see.
Company policy to travel with your skates? Were you in Icecapades? I had a coworker who's son was in regional Olympics for fencing (because there weren't many fencers in SC) and after the new rules were in place he was still able to bring his swords on board, because they had blunted tips. Still, they had edges. I think cats do like having people around, though they are more solitary than dogs. I couldn't do any catsitting as I'm allergic to them. Best of luck in getting Pumpkin-cat back. maybe a taxi? (expensive) Or is there a train? Your welcome for the baseball, trading is fun, giving is even better.
About flying with your Swiss Army knife, etc., LOL, when I was with HOI we rarely flew...we traveled by rail most of the time (I still love trains!). But there were occasions when we did fly, and it was a company rule that you had to keep your skates with you at all times when traveling. I guess the idea was that if we got to the next town and the baggage hadn't caught up with us, if we had our skates and some ice we could still do the show . Yeah. Right. Anyway, I can just see the airport uproar today if 40+ skaters showed up at the gate with skate bags slung over their shoulders. *snerk* I thank you for the baseball; I haven't had much time to check in here and play for the past few days, so my sister is logging on and getting all the goodies. I'm doing the kind of cat-sitting that I don't really like much; just go over there twice a day and feed, water, scoop. I usually move in and stay with whatever pet(s) need company. This hooman just doesn't want anybody in her house while she's not home. I can understand that, but the kitteh doesn't, and SHE is nervous and uncertain about the whole thing. She doesn't know if she can trust me completely, but she does give me ankle-rubs and head-bonks when I'm dishing out her food. I also worry about the house being empty all night, etc. And blah-blah-blah. I've also run into some trouble about getting Pumpkin-cat back down here from Grass Valley...my car won't hold together for a trip like that, and there's no commercial air service...so I'm chewing my nails. Wish me luck! And thanks again!
About flying with your Swiss Army knife, etc., LOL, when I was with HOI we rarely flew...we traveled by rail most of the time (I still love trains!). But there were occasions when we did fly, and it was a company rule that you had to keep your skates with you at all times when traveling. I guess the idea was that if we got to the next town and the baggage hadn't caught up with us, if we had our skates and some ice we could still do the show . Yeah. Right. Anyway, I can just see the airport uproar today if 40+ skaters showed up at the gate with skate bags slung over their shoulders. *snerk* I thank you for the baseball; I haven't had much time to check in here and play for the past few days, so my sister is logging on and getting all the goodies. I'm doing the kind of cat-sitting that I don't really like much; just go over there twice a day and feed, water, scoop. I usually move in and stay with whatever pet(s) need company. This hooman just doesn't want anybody in her house while she's not home. I can understand that, but the kitteh doesn't, and SHE is nervous and uncertain about the whole thing. She doesn't know if she can trust me completely, but she does give me ankle-rubs and head-bonks when I'm dishing out her food. I also worry about the house being empty all night, etc. And blah-blah-blah. I've also run into some trouble about getting Pumpkin-cat back down here from Grass Valley...my car won't hold together for a trip like that, and there's no commercial air service...so I'm chewing my nails. Wish me luck! And thanks again!
Oh, and apparently today is Hairball Awareness Day: http://vetmedicine.about.com/b/2011/04/29/hairball-awareness-day.htm
Indeed. I remember flying with my Swiss Army knife and Leatherman tool. Now we can't even bring on a bottle of water.
They definitely want our tax dollars. What with the baby boomers starting to retire there's certainly going to be pressure to keep those entitlements in check. I'm 46, raise my retirement age to 72, a few more years of paying in rather than collecting. There's going to have to be reform, what I don't know. It's a big mess.
I forgot to add: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. " Benjamin Franklin
Hmmmm. You may have a point there. Except that the gummint doesn't seem to want us to depend on it when it comes time for us to qualify for SocInSec and Medicareless. THEN, I think, they want us to just crawl off somewhere and die. Quickly and quietly.
Yeah, I'd rather have a bit less security (and unwanted groping) and take a chance that a terrorist gets through. Most of them seem inept anyway, and we passengers will take action ourselves (hmm, maybe government doesn't want us to take the initiative, rather than having to rely on government. . . ?)
I think most of the TSA stuff is totally unnecessary, anyway. The gummint needs for us to be scared of our own shadows so they can keep us distracted while they pass bills to allow their billionaire supporters rob us blind. A few years ago, a friend (80+ years old, phone co retiree travelling with a group, tiny, legally blind, Nisei...spent her childhood in Manzanar) was pulled out of the boarding line at O'Hare, and given a thorough search. It was absurd, and obscene. That's the main reason I take the train if I want to go somewhere. And I'm glad I'm old. I hope I won't have to put up with this nonsense much longer.
Yeah, i guess I'm getting old too. Don't understand the trolling ones at all, or demotivational. I come here for a bit of fun, not to be demotivated. Guess it's for young whippersnappers. That's an awful app. I've played Wolfenstein, but killing nazis is one thing, dog fighting is barbaric. And don't be giving out any ideas. There's already been one TSA agent (the ones doing the "patdowns") who's been charged with possessing child porn. Ugly times.
I think a LOT of the non-Cheezburger collectibles are weird/evil/nasty. Not funny, IMO. Maybe that's a sign of MY age creeping up on me. I saw a news iitem yesterday about a new Android/Google virtual game app where the player raises, feeds, trains. and FIGHTS his virtual pit bull dog. All my animal-fan friends are screaming bloody murder. I'm thinking, "What's next?" A 'game' that teaches pedophiles how to play minister, and seduce children?" Makes me sick. Sorry. I need to rant about this for a while.
Nice set of new spring collectibles. Demotivational ones are kind of weird, but I still haven't gotten any! I wish they'd take up your suggestion for doggie ones.
These days I'm still into Civ III, Civ 4 just plays too slow on my computer, and it's too old for 5. Also still have my old TRS-80 CoCo, stored away somewhere with a few games.
I remember seeing Pong and Space Invaders demonstrated at one of the earliest "Trek" fan conventions. The games didn't interest me much, but all the young guys were in raptures... In the early '80s, when Pac Man first came out, it was all the younger guys in the office who were hooked on it. *yawn* Right now, when I want to disconnect my brain, I play "Bubble Town." I like the silly sounds. (Getting weird in my old age.)
Haven't seen the 2" wide video tapes, but I did take a course, late 1970s at the local community college in t.v. production where the equipment was big. I also remember when we finally got a knock of version of Atari's Pong. Funny how such a simple game was so popluar at the time.
That pre-historic bookkeeping masheen was the size of a small desk...ghastly. (Didja ever see an early video-tape recorder? They WERE as big as a desk...used 2" wide tape.) And with the size of the paper it used, there was NO way to file the stuff, or put it in ledgers, so we ended up having to copy the figures into the books by hand...doubling the amount of work, and a complete waste of time. But even 20 years later, when I worked for a big retail company, we used Tyme Share to keep track of where the advertising art and photos were, and THAT terminal was also the size of a small desk. We'd have to put a phone receiver into the cradle in the modem, (listen to the dial-up "skreeee"...and thank you for today's gift...you are SO kind!), enter the merchandise info, and then wait 24 hours for FedEx to deliver the results from Tyme Share's main office. Awkward. That was 1982, or so. As my favorite role model (Margaret Hamilton, as The Witch of the West) said, "Whatta worrrrrllllld!"
That BBM sounds like a horrifying kludge. It's funny, I learned advanced legal research in the early-mid 1990s, and still most everything was paper. Now I'm teaching it and basically everything is web-based.
OMW! (Oh, My Word) I remember punch tape. My dad had an accounting practice, and I worked for him for 7 years at the very beginning of "bookkeeping machines." He tried every new thing that came out, on a trial-only basis (thank Whatever!). The first one was a Burroughs Bookkeeping Machine that used a roll of paper that was about 2 ft wide, and the machine itself was just an assemblage of adding machines ... the only advantage was that it automatically balanced a ledger or journal. It was as noisy as a back-hoe, and was always breaking down. The punch-tape system was next....we had to send the rolls of tape to the system vendor to get print-outs. Federal Tax Deposit forms were on punch-cards. "Do Not Bend, Fold, Staple, or Mutilate." There were days when I really wanted to do just that.
Thanks. I remember dot matrix printers, heck, my first computer program was saved to punch tape. It is weird about the collectibles, I have about 8 each of the troll science ones. I'd rather have more of the newer ones. I did give AngelAndz my extra Bluetooth, if she's not getting the new ones, what chance do we mortals have?
I got the "Any Key" the first day they were available, and haven't seen anything from that series since. Somebody gifted me the Dot Matrix printer (gourd, I used to hate those things, and the MAS90 system we used, with their reams of print-out pages that ALL had to be filed in bloody 10-lb binders!). I keep getting "Charts" and "Problem?" Wish they'd retire those; they're not really funny. Or cute. Or anything. If I get another "Any" key, it's yours!
That's good news. I'm an any key away from being fully complete. Where's the any key?!
Did I tell you that I wrote to the Cheezpeeps and told them they were hurting millions of dogs' feelings by not having any Canine Collectibles? They wrote back and said they agreed with me, and would work on it. Whee!
U haz welkom. Yeah, I have a picture uv my old dog, when she was puppeh tearing into a roll uv toylet papr. She died about 10 years ago. Part Springer Spaniel, part Poodle, and very flighty.
