Fight Song

[pshaw_raven]

There's an orange and white stray cat that I sometimes see around here. He's an intact male and is missing a decent bit of his tail, so he's been named Bobcat. This morning he was outside when I went to put the garbage out and ... he's super friendly. *sighs* I'm torn about feeding him, since he doesn't seem too hungry, but he clearly likes people. The county animal shelter says they have a TNVR program, but I can't tell the year of the announcement so I may just call them. He'd be easy to trap, and getting him fixed would make his quality of life better.

Crowley, on the other hand, was not at all pleased at this development, and wound up seeing Bobcat out of the sliding glass door. And he YOWLED. I've never heard Crowley singing his peoples' War Song. LOL I guess that answers my question about whether he'd like another cat as a friend.

No. Absolutely not.

Tomorrow is packet pickup for Gate River Run, so I'll be driving over to the stadium, where it's being held on the practice field. The start line and other stuff for race day is all different too. Fox didn't submit proof of time when he registered us, so I assumed we'd be in the back. We've run Gate several times, though, so we're not complete unknowns, and they stuck us up in starting wave 2. Right behind the last of the timed runners. Fox says he supposes that means he needs to really run, and if he feels good I've got no objection, but I'm also okay with this being a party pace run. Beer table? Don't mind if I do :D

I got all my Amazon ebooks downloaded yesterday. I ended up spending a lot more time on the file conversions than I expected, but I finally figured it out. Once my Kindle wears out I've got my eye on a Kobo reader that looks like a good sideways move for me. I don't need color or a write-on screen, just a reliable reader. As I was telling Fox, from this point on, if I can't afford a dead-tree version of a book, I can't afford the book. I won't be buying Kindle versions, at all. Epub or paper, or nothing.

I'm feeling a lot better since my ranty locked post, and I'm not sure what clicked. Maybe just talking about it openly helped, since I tend to sit on things and then blame myself for them. She taught me well, huh? I know there are a lot of people who don't see their families, and it used to be a very common thing - you'd grow up and move away and do your own things. But I think it's very telling that my birth mother is the only one who ever makes an effort to reach out to me.

I'm going on a trash walk today. I meant to yesterday and the Kindle thing just ate up hours of my time. I can eventually figure computer things out on my own, but it takes me a while.

Comments

[cdayzee]

Orange tabby? I had one of those. Mean as hell. He literally hated us. When we moved from TX to GA, I met an internet friend halfway & gave him to her. Ironically he was the sweetest cat for her until he ventured into the woods & 'saw himself out'. Proving of course that he did hate us lol.

I guess Crowley no longer wants to share his space. How old is he?

I'm glad you're feeling better about things :) Writing it out can be cathartic/helpful.

How did the trash walk go? I'm seeing a huge uptick in trash around where I live & it makes me sad & overwhelmed. Why can't we take pride in our area like Japan? From what I understand it's a clean country.

[pshaw_raven]

Orange tabbies are just pure chaos.

Crowley is about thirteen years old and I guess he's earned the right to be a Grumpy Old Man. He's enjoying being the only cat, and he's especially attached to me since I bottle-raised him, so I'm "mom." I have no problem with him just having the run of the house.

And yeah, I think just getting it out there has helped. I know in my brain that things like "it was my fault" or "she just had a stressful day/life" are nonsense, but I still kind of half believe them. Plus I've found accounts from a lot more people who dealt with the same things.

Japan is great about picking up. I have no idea why people can't just pick up their own stuff, but I guess they think it's either no big deal, someone else's problem, or "I don't live out here, why should I care?"

[foggynights]

We have five cats here and the orange tabby is my favorite. We have a special bond, I like to say. Crowley sounds as though he made up his mind for you, though!

I absolutely love my Kindle, but don't use it because I loathe the idea we pay for a digital license and not the actual book itself. This is why I own so many physical copies of books.

[pshaw_raven]

"You'll own nothing and like it!" I'm all right with digital copies of things. Like a lot of people, all my music is digital. All my movies are digital. I still prefer physical books though, because it bothers me deeply that someone can simply change a book and overnight, all the copies are updated.

I've had a couple of orange tabbies and they have been great. My favorite was one we had when I was in high school, a female we named Sunny. She was super-sweet, but constantly climbing and getting into weird places. We found her in the attic once and had to do some emergency boarding up to keep her out.

[foggynights]

I didn't think that I ever consciously thought about post-production editing, but I suppose I have considering all of my reference books are physical. I won't purchase those digitally. I don't believe I own a single CD or DVD. I've thought about building that collection of simply my favorite, but I realized that if anything were to happen, I'd feel better drowning myself in books than any other form of media.