WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

I've folded down the small seat back. Plan to leave it that way until someone has to sit there or I buy a new car.

Well here's a new wrinkle in the Facebook impersonator thing....

Three people I was not previously friends with have found the impersonator and friended him/ her, thinking he/she was me. One of 'em I was happy to see and contacted saying "hey how ya doin' by the way the person you just friended is NOT actually me," etc. But the wrinkle is that the two others are people I don't particularly want to be friends with. I don't actually have anything against them, but for example one is someone I sort of knew in high school and I have no idea what he's like now, and I try to keep my friends list to people I actually am friends with.

(I'm increasingly annoyed that Facebook hasn't done anything about the impersonator account yet. There have been a LOT of reports.)

Wow, that's not good, not good at all, soz, especially from facebook's side
being so nonchalant about it and not acting at all.

I think there is a function on your facebook that allows you to change your
name and perhaps you should do that and inform your facebook friends about it. This will protect you from future impersonators, but the current one can still do damage...

Aren't you also involved in an ASL non-profit group? Do you have a fb account with them too? Any other groups, like school, university etc.?

Snow. Freakin' snow. Woke up this morning to a squall. Just when most of it had vanished, it's back with a vengeance. 5cm already and it won't stop till the weekend or later. Geez I wish I lived somewhere warm...

Today is my first day of endless sneezing and nose running - I usually get this in March and April, when the winds are gusty and the neighbor's mulberry tree is like a giant pollen bush. My allergies are generally much quieter than they used to be, so it's poor to gripe, but they're always a stupid annoyance. Stupid, since on the scale of things that can be wrong, they're not bad.

Why not take something?

There's great drugs now that don't make you sleepy.

Ah, I tried those, at some fair expense back then, not as good as good old benedryl for me.
The hour of sneezeophilia has passed, until the next winds.

I went through Claritin and Allegra as nothing. Benedryl, I weaned myself from, so I now only take a half of one at a time - and in the old days I might take six a day. Now it's a half a one or a whole one a few days a year.

Still, remarkably, I can get irritated up in a short time - irate - if I have to sneeze and shoot water all day. At the least, it eats into my toilet paper rolls.

I was so accustomed to Benedryl that it did not make me sleepy. I weaned myself, but I still have a supply at hand if the mulberry next door flings pollen at me.


Oh, and Mulberries don't belong here, and my neighbor's is particularly obstreporous. Grrrrrrrrr.

That'd make a good band name -- the Obstreperous Mulberries.

I fear it may be a Traveling Wilburies cover band...

I'm not sure if this is a grit & grimace or if I'm just plain worried .....

I'm looking after a tabby cat called Mimi for the next few days, while her owner (a good friend) is away.

So I went over to feed her at 4 pm. No Mimi.
Did a lot of wandering around the front & back yards calling for her.
Absolutely no sign of her.
So now (merely day 1) I'm rather worried.
I'll go back over there tonight & hopefully she'll turn up.
(Oh why couldn't my friend have a cat door? )

Sometimes, thay go on feline adventures
and return when thay have completed them; (or when thay feel like it).





David

Just keep food and water out. She's probably just out of sight. Cats are real good at that. Keep an eye on the food levels and I'm betting it goes away when you're not looking.

David could also be right. If, and I say if she got out, she just might be afraid to come back when anyone besides the owner is there. It'll be okay, and worth a grin - once she shows up.

U KNOW that cats don't come when u call them, right ?

The cat coud be 7 feet in front of u, out on the rug,
with u calling: "here, Fluffy, here Fluffy. . . . " until next Tuesday, with no results.

That is paradigmatically feline.

On the other hand, operating the can opener
or applying other dinnertime procedures may have a swift effect.





David

GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

Is that a kangaroo sound ?

Roger & David
Yes, I do realize she could have gone off on some cat adventure ...
I am just hoping she will turn up later tonight, when I appear for visit #2.
I am not going to be at all happy if she doesn't.

I know this cat (Mimi) very well. I am a constant visitor to her home.We're good mates.
I would have thought, having waited for an hour & making all sorts of "someone's home" noises, that she would have turned up for food.

But I can't leave food outside for her because this has caused problems in the past.
Like a big aggressive cat getting fed daily, at her expense. Leading to a cat war.
Of course she has water outside, though.

I really wish her owner (& my good friend) had invested in a cat flap, so Mimi could feed herself inside & let herself out again. But <sigh> she hasn't done that, despite a number of very subtle hints from me.

So I will go back in the dark tonight & hope Mimi turns up.
But I just hope that every one of the next 4 days I'm looking after her are not going to be like this!

R u gonna leave Mimi inside, or out ?

That, unfortunately, is something I have no choice about, David.
So yes, outside.
I'm not too happy about this.
But that's what usually happens, not just when I am looking after her.
My own cat lives the life of Queen Elizabeth, in comparison.

THEN, it is not an issue.

In your absence, without your knowledge, Mimi might have returned
and wondered away many times, chasing birds or squirrels.
Her human KNOWS that Mimi has full freedom to come n go
as she pleases and she is taking care of HERSELF,
(being defensively armed with teeth n claws) within her human's intendment.

In that circumstance, u cannot be held responsible.

Its not as if u were committed to keeping her locked in her house, or in yours.





David

If Mimi returns, u can ply her with blandishments, if u wanna
and arrest her movement, keeping her in your house.

She probably will be unable to tell her human what u did.





David