Chatroom @ MindSay

One needs patience and a sense of the absurd to give a cat liquid amoxicillin. The technique is simple….some of which I learned from Abi’s favorite TV channel: The Animal Planet. Bundling a cat in a towel is def not a good idea, they double the struggle and will learn to move away every time they see a towel. I use the mother gangling you technique- which  would be a bad idea with a fat cat. One holds her under both front paws and she dangles over the arm. The feet can rest tip toe on a slick surface but don’t give the cat anything to dig claws into. Now approach her mouth from the side with the needle free syringe and gentle nudge it into her mouth. Than a very fast squirt while also holding her head angled up lets it shoot down her throat and prevents half of it from flying all over the floor when she does her inevitable “eeeuw, disgusting” headshake and lip smack. Then you  tell her how good she is and give her some dinner.  I would have preferred a pill because that can be ground up or stuck in a pill pocket and once she chomps its  too late to get  rid of the pill, but its been an entertaining week dosing her twice a day. And the price. $23. for a bottle. I wish I had gotten some from a pediatrician and spent 2.50. Oh what we do for our pets.

Yesterday was a perfect day for Mt Hood. Clear blue dry sunny. The trail was colorful with lots of red berried bunchberries and fireweed curls and the hemlock bark was beautiful against the dark green fern like needles.  And then we ate at Timberline Lodge, accidentally trumping a fat couple waiting who weren’t being assertive because I just walk  up to the hostess and say two please while they hover in the background and wait to be approached. I mean how will you ever get a table that way. And I am sorry for calling them fat. They were large however.  Of course we forgot the camera and my cool new walking stick purchased where? I was with Jim and I changed the beads. Oh yes on the road to Mt St Helens. I have yet to get the hiking canoe snorkel stuff organized by the garage door so we still hunt all over the house for things. However. Jim IS adding two drawers and a trash pullout to the island so my knives and coking utensils and large pots are more accessible and I don’t have to open a cabinet and then pull the recycle drawer out, it will come out with one movement.

Last night I came close to the perfect fire. I did the newspaper, added some fat wood strips, some kindling and then some small pieces of wood and lit it. Everything was going well and Jim comes along and says you don’t have enough wood there and throws a full unsplit log on top, rolling and collapsing my teepee of wood and boom. It smolders and looks like it is going out.  But I retrieved the pile, using an orca mitt rather than those unwieldy tongs and pokers… who ever decided to design a poker like that? Well when my blue fireplace gloves arrive I can simply reach into the fire and arrange things they way I want them. At any rate it kept burning beautifully from 7:30 till 10:00 when we went up to read.  I finished the book about Victoria’s five daughters and I am more curious about them than ever. Especially the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm who raises such a twisted and power hungry young man who hates her so. And one must wonder who  in Victoria’s biological dad was because there was no trace of hemophilia in the Hanvover line until she introduced it to Europe. I will find some more books and read about them, Wilhem and the Bismarcks. In the meantime here is another (longish) piece I wrote that was torn to shreds by classmates who obviously had never spent much time online:

http://home.comcast.net/~swalicestreet/sv.html

Yeah, I was a cool n00b. ^_^. This is about the chatroom I always am in. I joined around two years ago. And meanwhile I am one of the regular members. And I made my own chatroom too. And I made comics about that chatroom. So how did I ended up there. Probarly like every n00b that ended up there. I was looking for information about the movie Advent Children. And well, I saw there was a chatroom, so I joined it. Altough I first was very n00bish I soon knew how to adjust. And so I began to come there regular. And there were people that were cool. And those were for example Cloey, Kev, Ash etc. But almost everyone of them doesn't go to the chatroom now it moved to another server. And that's not fun. They are good friends of mine. And I would like to see them back on the chatroom. I know I can always contact them on MSN, but still that's different. But all kinds of things happened during that I was there. The room changed like 4 or 5 times from owner. And almost everyone of them where good people. But during that periode also other cool people joined. Juan, Ains, Amber etc. And I met some people there that I keep in contact still, like Mel. And trough that room I ended up in the other rooms. Cool rooms. Rooms owned by cool people like Abby and Troy. But other people also like Ernest and Dave, that I met there. And lately I met Kim and Ville. So I met a lot of people trough those rooms. There is always those bad story's about adults checking around for young children on chatrooms. But the chatrooms I go too aren't like that. Luckly not. The operators take care of that. The operators are sure those people don't do that. It's good ^_^. Then about my comic. You see the banner above my blog? That's for example one that's based on the chat. The one in the armoured suit is called Ernest. And he once said against me (I supposed to be the guy with the black hair and the moustache) I should update my blog more, but he didn't update his own blog. Then about the quote I putted as title. The person saying that is Ash. She used to be the nightmare to n00bs. And she was already there when I first came in. But she always made sure n00bs kept away from the room. But I didn't ever had a problem with Ash. The only ones I had a 'problem' with was with Cloey..but that was because of loads of misunderstanding and bad timing from my side. Only problem is that my over the 100 comics, don't have a real place to go too. :(. They aren't allowed anymore and it's bummer. I hope this problem is soon over and then my inspiration can go up again and then there are new comic. On to the 250 then