I have just turned in my notice. A better offer was opened, with far better
pay, easy access to rapid transit and the classes I hope to take, etc.
I'm nervous as hell.
I'm working for another bank, customer service with higher emphasis on

"Cats, not canaries, will serve as sentinels for bird flu, said Dr. Lewis of
Banfield. There are 70 million cats in America, which makes them more common
than songbirds and a more reliable source of information. An H5N1 outbreak
at a Thai zoo laid waste to its tiger population, ...

Speckles seemed out of sorts the last few days.  Yesterday she ate
nothing the entire day.  She vomited several times.  I decided to take
her to the vet this afternoon (they're open for a few hours on
Sunday).  But by evening she was barfing almost non-stop, only bile

Really.  It's amazing that Otis has lived to be nine based on his judgement.
Besides all the ill-advised escaping that he's done and the number of times
he's thus found himself lost ...
... tonight, I was working at my computer on the second floor.  Otis was a

I loved all the pics people posted of their desks, especially the ones
with cats on them.  So I went looking in my album and realized that
I've already posted quite a few of my desk with Vino.
http://tinyurl.com/7lzmt

In the house. In the study. Where I am. Along with several *very*
interested cats. Fez and Rufous have chased the wasp to the top of the
bookcase. I hope nobody gets stung, specially me.
Crap, they're pawing at it now, I'm sure it's pissed.

On http://www.possibleplaces.com/Tweed/

Here you go, Gordon.  I had to crawl on the floor to take these because this
is where Demi spends most of her time now that there are monsters in the
house!  ;>
http://www.possibleplaces.com/CatNipped/Demi15/

On http://www.possibleplaces.com/Tweed/

I'm a bit numb.  We went to the vet's and the obvious was there.  I held her
and she will wait for me on the other side.

...with my leg. Or my arm. Or whatever he can wrap his little paws around
when I'm trying to get some rest.
He was fixed when he was seven months old, and has never developed the
spraying habit. I'm worried about that more than anything...but why on Earth

Over here in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes, we like to console each other
with comforting stories about a Rainbow Bridge that our pets cross
over after death, where they wait for us to die so they can join us in
heaven.

My server at work has dropped ng messages from the two of you, otherwise
I wouldn't contact you this way regarding hotels (Trish you offered to
give advice if possible).  If we're looking at hotels such as Sofitel
Wentworth, Swissotel Sidney on Market Street, Stamford Plaza ...

A couple of new pictures of Snoopy on Daddy's lap. I was watching the news
on television when my mother took these.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/418822180/480302421GZkOpn
http://community.webshots.com/photo/480302728/480302728KVacaj

I'm sure that Cinder and Rosie think we have transformed the boat to some
kind of a time-travel machine.
We put them onboard and the next thing they see is that the dock, yard and
house are gone and some strange place is there.  We shut them in again, and