I’m an introvert but I’m fine in parties for hours, usually.
A few years back, we were at a wedding where I had previously met only the bride, while my wife knew a bunch of people. She was off talking to people, and I just drained within two hours. Ended up waiting for her in the hall outside the room.
Yeah, thanks. He’s so skittish that I bet the mechanism would scare him off. :( It really doesn’t take much. Plus we’d need three - he can’t have the food that the other two eat, it’s not approved for young cats.
I took this picture and sent it to my wife with the caption, “Uh, maybe I won’t go upstairs right now.”
Then, a few minutes later, I went back to the steps, and Inky was gone, but our dog was laying across a step. I told my wife that the guard’s shift must have ended.
Story time on this! Our other two cats are older and have medical issues, so Inky gets different dry food and is fed separately. This started in the May or June, I think. I feed the other two, then pour some of Inky’s food into a bowl, take it to the bedroom, and give it to him, then close the door for 20-25 minutes to let him eat uninterrupted.
At first, I had to get down on the floor to see if he was hiding under the bed. A few months back, my wife fed him while I was out of town for a few days, and she tried meowing at him, and if he responds, we know he’s in the room. This worked probably 90% of the time, and it was great, I didn’t have to get down on the floor and dig out the flashlight…
Then, a few weeks ago, there was a new wrinkle. Now, while I’m pouring Inky’s food, he’ll almost always be on the landing in the picture, meowing like crazy at me. Then I start heading for the bedroom and he stays ahead of me, but constantly looking back and meowing more, until I put the food down. I, of course, can’t resist meowing back at him the whole time.
I have no idea what triggered this new behavior - it just started out of the blue one day. We haven’t changed the amount, and he sometimes leaves a few kernels behind (and I’ve given him a bit extra to be sure), so I know he’s not starving. It’s like he just decided to be more vocal about his food one day.
Other than the morning where he almost knocked over the Christmas tree (see my comment history), that’s how it’s been. It’s good to see him being more interactive with us.
Correct!
We usually go with Simpsons and Disney characters for naming our pets (Snowball, Minnie, Nibbler, Stitch, and Sulley), but as we were driving to the shelter to pick him up, we were talking about names, and, somehow, my wife actually said the same name I had thought of: Inky.
In the game, Inky is also known as Bashful, and this cat really fits that description. We picked a perfect name for him - he likes to hide under the bed a LOT. He’ll wander out, but it doesn’t take much at all before he scampers off back under the bed. He’s a nervous kitty. Over the past five years since we adopted him, he’s slowly become more comfortable and we’ll see him out and about some during the day, but he’s still very nervous and it doesn’t take much to trigger his flight reflex. People visiting our house basically never see him; some probably think we’re lying about having a third cat.
We often call him Ghost. :)
We switched to a real tree about 10 years ago. We had both a real tree and an artifical tree set up one year, and the cats only ever climbed the artifical tree - never the real tree. So, since then, I’ve been telling people to get real trees instead, cats don’t climb them.
Well. A few days ago, I was in tree kitchen prepping food for the dog, when I heard a crash from the living room. I looked over, and one of our tuxedos, named Inky, was walking out of the living room. I went that way, and he scampered off. In the living room, I didn’t see anything amiss… At first. Later, from a different angle, I realized the tree was moved a foot or so and there was water on the floor.
I think Inky climbed the tree, it started to fall over, he fell or jumped out, and the tree rocked back down to the floor in a different position. It must have been pretty close to toppling, but fortunately we bought a pretty heavy stand that saved it.
He hasn’t tried it since, or if he did, he’s been more careful.
I still love him though. I have several amusing pictures of cats in trees from back then, I should post them. We wouldn’t even be done setting it up and there’d be a cat in it.
There are different channels. The stores you’re going into are playing that music by choice, often to cater to specific demographics. You wouldn’t expect, say, a skateboard shop to play classical, just as you wouldn’t expect a greeting card store to play death metal. I remember when the hardware store I worked in switched from instrumental to music with lyrics.
We used to have a tabby that would wake me up at night for cuddles and pets. Often I’d lift up the blankets and she would curl up against me, under the covers, and stay there for 15-20 minutes (occasionally a lot longer).
I miss her so much.
One of our tuxedo cats usually doesn’t wake me, but if he realizes I’m awake, he’ll sometimes demand pets and cuddles.
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Yeah, once my isp had me verify that the power light on my ont was on, then asked me to plug in a lamp to confirm the outlet was working…
Another time they had me do all kinds of troubleshooting, insisting there was no outage in the area… It turned out a truck had taken out the wires over the road.
On a related note to the last one, if we have a power outage, I get an email from them right away - before the ceiling fans stop spinning - warning me the internet might not work without power. But, somehow, they can’t detect outages in their own network.
Thanks, I’ll try that next time I see one.
This one is fine for me, but I’ve had others with the same issue. I assumed it was a quirk in the app I use (Boost).
Nice. I might have to get that. Thanks!
For some reason, if I were doing the physical media route, I’d want to ship the drives via FedEx or something similar. Presumably this isn’t the only copy of the data. Even if you still need to go, just dragging these drives around seems risky.
My gaming PC has a power button on the top of the case. It makes a lot of sense to put it there…
…except when you have cats. And I have 3. I have had it “helpfully” shut off at least twice mid-game. Now I have something that I keep over the button in case the cat is wandering around again.
Many aftermarket radios still support that detachable face feature!
The stock radio in my 1999 model year car had a couple buttons that were removable (instead of the entire face, but it disabled the radio just the same). But no one was stealing stock Ford radios, as far as I know.
I remember seeing an SUV that had this in vinyl on their back window (paraphrased, I don’t remember the exact wording): “RIP so-and-so - God cured his suffering and took him to Heaven.”
So, God either gets credit for killing the guy, or he gets credit for saving the guy. No matter what, God comes out as the good guy!
I have no idea how people live in this mindset.
Our tabby played fetch when she was young, but grew out of it after a year or two. It was so much fun!
Now we have a dog that doesn’t play fetch either. He’s a keep-away dog.
The Wii? We’ve come up with much more bizarre things than that!
Most people bribe with money, but FIFA shrewdly found a cheaper way.