11:11a To Do List
Leftover from the weekend & stuff (To Do this week & next weekend):
Finish cleaning stalls for the day, tonight's feed done Dig in last wire for electric fence & charger, turn on Milk Carrie every second day this week, store milk for cheese, dry her up Put Port in with Corin, watch live 'goat porn' show :P Trim goat hooves Haircut Wednesday morning Move more hay Rake leaves in front lawn, bag for dump run tomorrow (Canis) FInish cleanup, organise papers, pay bills Tristan & Tango to the vet (Tues 8am) Meeting with new client (Tues? Fri?) Email to FENG meeting committee Email to MIT Sloan School committee for speaker buy/mail anniversary present for special couple Mail flyers to Jes Mail magazine to Cordite drop off magazine with farrier rehang wooden gate bolt in new latch for new gate dig in/concrete last four new fenceposts for year, put up new rails build back & side walls of new shower stall in barn buy new hardware, rehang outside stable door buy shavings, 2 stall mats, & feed level stones, place floor mats in dog run & in stable aisleway move workbench from barn to workshop & reassemble sort tools/supplies/parts in workshop put new furry pr0n in binder sort out board of directors paperwork & file file business magazines
So you have a device. You have a calendar, and an e-mail app and a to-do list. One’s telling you when you get new mail, the otehr two apps are telling you stuff that you decided was important enough that you needed to be reminded.
On one machine, your ToDo notification pops up, which removes the calendar notification. Then you get e-mail and the notification replaces the To-Do alert.
Congrats, you just didn’t get notified.
That’s Apple’s iPhone.
With the Android, each notification gets added to a list so you can see what came previously. Was it that hard to work out that it might be a bad thing if there was exactly one single notification that other apps could dismiss with no history to look at and no way to know that there had been important notifications previously?
On Friday, I could come in time at home (1PM). I ate a bit, vacuum cleaned, washed the floor of the kitchen, prepared my case and did some other things. Then I could relax a few hours at the computer and then went by car with Ryu an Silverhuskie to Rothrist for the fursday of Virus. It took place in the Dörfli restaurant where I already was once, we had a reserved place and were the first one. During the evening the other furries came and then we were almost 15. I ate a salad and a cordon bleu with beers. It was quite nice, especially thanks to Pfluftel who set a good atmosphere. We stayed till about 10:30 PM and after a good hour of travel, I used the computer a bit but not too long because I was tired (I slept in the car).
Saturday, I woke up at 8:30 so I could take the bus at 9. I arrived a bit after 11:30 in Neuchâtek where my dad collected me as usual. We had a pumpkin soup and a sausage as lunch, then I talked to the parents, used the computer and also slept a bit. At around 7:15PM, we met with Maurice and Micheline and went by car to the Paprika which is an Indian restaurant and there we had nice things to eat and had good discussions. Later on, they invited me to their place to have some champagne and I also pet their rabbit a bit. It lasted for long but used the computer even though I was rather tired.
Sunday I woke up at 11 and had a breakfast and went about 1h to walk and take some pictures of the works on the tunnel under Serrières. I used the computer a bit, then we had a nice lunch prepared by my dad, then dessert, coffee, etc, I used the computer and it was already time to leave. I said bye, prepared my stuff and took the train. I came back home at 8PM, did some little works and used the rest of the time at my computer but I also had to sort the clothes to be washed.
12:20a Emu Comix #28
This are roughly how emu goes shopping for reals...like made kookies tonight, and ate half of the tube of dough before noticed big thing on wall with buttons that is sposed to make warm up ness and make dough INTO cookies..is amazing, emus learns something new every day! thot dough was just a *kind* of kookie.
I don't knows why I evens draws good komix, nobody komments, has to be terribleness komik to get peoples koments...next 50 i just draws by whakking face against crayons then rubbing all over paper and taking bad cell phone picture to post. srsly why emu bother *sob*
Click picture to make huge so you can see those details that nobody kares bout *sob some more*
current music: Robots Radio Soul - Nobody Actually Reads These Do They
8:59p Mouthing behavior in kittens
So, I have been raising a little feral kitten since she was about 2.5 weeks old. She was found with her brother in some bushes and brought into the pet store where I work. Dinah is a wonderfully sweet and curious girl, just coming up on 8 weeks. I have four adult kitties and they are still trying to figure out how to play with her, being so small. She isn't even two pounds yet, but isn't thin, just petite. Her brother is twice her size. I am keeping Dinah, but her brother is being adopted out.
When she was found, she would hiss and growl at strangers, but that was resolved around 4 weeks of age. She is very social, and once she meets someone a few times, will purr as soon as she sees them or hears their voice.
Dinah loves to play with humans and plays very gently. However, she likes to put hands in her mouth. She mouths it a bit, but she is very gentle and cautious about it. She even uses her paws, but not her claws, to hold onto your arm/hand. Dinah also likes to taste and play with my hair on occasion. All of these behaviors I have been ignoring, and they have not progressed in intensity at all, and she's been playing like this for a few weeks.
All of my adult cats know that teeth and claws are not allowed on human skin, but I'm not sure if what Dinah is doing will be harmful in the long run. I always think of the future when raising my pets, only allowing them to do now what I will allow for the rest of their lives. They don't get away with something "just because they're a kitten/puppy." She is already great about using her litter box and various scratchers, and listens very well to my adult cats' body language.
Will allowing her to mouth on my hand encourage her to be a biter in the future, or can I allow this? It seems like a comfort thing, almost like a cat nursing on your clothing. When I trimmed her nails, all she did was lay on her back and purr. She is definitely not aggressive in the slightest. We do encourage her to play with toys, and loves the interactive ones she can chase, but when she is in my lap while I'm watching TV, for example, she'll do the mouthing and keeps herself entertained.
The small pet store I work for allows pets to come to work, and she is actually going to continue to come to work with me. She stays crated for part of the day still, but gets to come out multiple times per day and hang out on the cat trees, out on the office desk, playing with toys or at the front counter, but still only supervised. She has only been a little nervous around big hyper dogs, and that's fine with me. I want to teach her to avoid the path of a dog who may not be cat-friendly, since she is so trusting of most dogs now. Any tips on this?
Thank you for those who read the entire post. I appreciate your input. :)
8:50p Home safe
Got home about 6:30, after taking our "Dog and Pony Show" to Ohio for the weekend and then on the way home, driving in the most horrendous, pushy traffic I ever remember on the tollways between here and Quickcasey's. It was as if this had been a holiday weekend, when it's still two weeks to the beginning of that madhouse. Thank goodness I have a GPS in the car now, or I'd still be lost out there somewhere like Charlie on the MTA.
It was a really nice visit with the best foxes I know, Aerofox and Loriana. We had fun eating too much and joking around and going to the hamfest in Fort Wayne on Saturday. I didn't quite pass my license upgrade exam, but I had only gotten half way through the study book so scoring 35 out of 50 correct isn't really that bad. I got a better study guide and lots of advice afterwards. Then we went to antique stores in Van Wert, which was also fun. I like looking at old junque. Aero got a set of key caps from an old upright typewriter. I bought an old Walter Foster "How to Draw Series" book on Cowboys and Horses. Casey and Loriana both got some model railroad cars. It was all a nice diversion.
6:00p Finally!
For the first time in almost a week i had some free time to screw around.
Just a toy I'm working on in the lab.
Spare parts from all kinds of stuff.... old 80/20 frame, POS motorized beam mirror, 50mW green laser diode, crappy old aluminum frame phonograph table, new stepper motor in place of the spindle motor.
Still have to get the USB-based cameras (2), stepper driver, and GPIO boards installed and some software written. Phidgets.com makes some really cool USB-based I/O boards with very cool API libraries for like 20 languages.
In theory the table has a resolution in fractions of a degree, but yeah right. The beam scanner washes resolution out to some degree, mechanics are a little loose too. Adding rotation index micro-switch so I can at least do zero-sensing.
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