It only gets weirder.

Only I could have blended family problems with cats.

When Aaron moved in, his two cats came with him. Xanadu is doing fantastic. She's settled in, she's eating and laying in windows, and aside from a few domestic disputes with Doyle, doing awesome.

Baloo is not. He refuses to eat. We were able to coax him to eat by cycling through different kinds of food, giving him attention, etc., but at the end of last week he started refusing to eat anything. Monday morning he went into the vet, and spent two days getting IV fluids and meds. He's jaundiced, and while fatty liver from not eating is the likely culprit, it's always possible he has some other type of liver infection/disease.

He's home now, with a stack of meds we have to give him everyday and we have to watching him like a hawk to make sure he doesn't get dehydrated again, and he keeps eating. Luckily my vet is willing to work with me on supportive care issues to keep expenses down. If he does start getting dehydrated they'll let me give him fluids at home and willing to teach me how to tube feed him if necessary to keep nutrition in him. But what I really wish, is that they'd given me the prescription for the kitty prozac.

A note to our politicians

Dear GOP,

If you decide to let a government shutdown happen, you better make sure that Congress stops getting a paycheck too.

No love,

Tiffany

Simple Pleasures

Sometimes you have to stop to appreciate the simple things in life. Like having a coffee pot in your office so that all you have to do to get another cup is turn around and pour.

How to Disturb and Confuse Your Black Lab

1. Go in another room. Close the door so she can't follow you.
2. Rearrange the closet the dog food is stored in, and don't feed her.
3. Look at your lab, but don't pet her.
4. Expect her to sit quietly for more than 20 seconds.
5. Stop throwing the the tennis ball.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated; and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported
by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Source.

Why are we giving up our freedoms under the false belief that having our personal liberty violated makes us more secure?

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Epic Fail 20th Century Fox.

Really? Did you really think that no one would notice that you ripped the opening scenes of Hitman directly out of Dark Angel? Really? REALLY?

I'm willing to let the poorly disguised stunt double and lack of Timothy Olyphant shirtless slide, but did you have to try to convince me that a young Max was actually a young Agent 47?