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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
If you tell them at the main gate that you want to carry on the guitar, I’m sure they’ll tell you what you need to do at that point. Don’t know if they’d give you a tag at that point, but just ask them, they’ll tell you. If you give yourself an extra 20-30 minutes, you’ll be just fine, because you’ll have plenty of time to get your questions answered.
I don’t want to carry it on...just gate check it.
I’ll carry on the mando.
Such is the plan, anyway...
At least I’ll only have two instruments on the return trip. On the trip out, I’ll just have the mando, and that’s easy.
I still have to buy my tickets. :-\ They’ve gone up in price, of course. And I spent much of yesterday evening trying to decide if the airline made any difference. I’ll have a connecting flight no matter what I do, so I’ll likely have to gate check twice, I’d think. Guh.
You will have to gate check twice, but the nice thing is the first leg is likely to be a regional jet and they will be planning to gate check a lot of things anyway. We almost always have to gate check one carryon here because all the planes are regional jets.
I got my stuff from Swisher!
Ink report: Joshua wrote his cursive ABCs on a piece of paper with the dropper pen filled with Heart of Darkness. I wrote a little bit of alphabet on the same piece of paper with my pink Preppy ink. Then I held the paper under running water (plain printer paper) and the pink washed off about 50% almost immediately. The black didn’t budge and never did for about 5 minutes under running water.
Joshua loves the eyedropper pen...likes to watch the ink slosh around in it! It works great too! Very smooth and easy for him to use...just like Matthew’s Preppy.
The Preppy is slightly different though...the spike where the cartridge goes has a plastic sheath that the eyedropper doesn’t have. Makes me wonder if the eyedropper was meant to be a Preppy but had a design flaw that kept it from working right with cartridges and that’s why they’re giving them away??
I don’t know but it works just fine as an eyedropper.
Cool...you’re making me feel better about this.
Here’s hopin’ it all works...I’m still figuring out which tickets to buy, and I’m thinking I’d better go for flights that give me a decently long layover, unpleasant though a long travel day is.
It might be easier to just leave the mando home and hope to carry on the guitar, but guitars are big enough that doesn’t always work anyhow, and I’d really prefer to have both.
I soooo hate airplane travel. It’d be way too long of a drive to make any sense, but flying is such a drag!
The eyedroppers have been converted to work as eyedroppers, so they probably removed that spike.
I’m with Joshua - it’s kinda fun watching that ink slosh around in there...
And I do love the water resistant Noodler’s. I realize most of the time pages aren’t gonna get wet, but when they do...you realize how nice it is to have that ink. Good for addressing letters and things, too.
I’ll see if I can find a little bottle and send you some, it is VERY black!
I’ve been canceling credit cards.
I got a copy of my credit report and it had seven pages of credit cards on it! I had no idea!
Only two have any balance on them...the rest were just hanging out there!
So I canceled them all.
I canceled all my credit cards 2 years ago after I couldn’t afford them any more. I paid off the balance then snip, into the trash they went.
Any news on Abby, Corin?
I wasn't feeling too good when I got home from Matthew's Latin class. Matthew got my cuff and said “Take your blood pressure.” (I haven't been, because my new doc said I was taking it too often.) So I did and it was 96/64. Not too bad, but I'm not used to it being that low so it was making me feel really exhausted.
I called the doctor's office and they took me off another pill! That leaves me on just one pill and the patch. I personally believe it's this stronger patch that did the trick and the pills aren't doing anything. Nothing changed till they put me on this double strength patch.
The pill they took me off of was making my feet turn red and swell...I looked like I had sausages for toes (and you know how vain I am about my feet...I was mortified!) So I'm pretty happy and hope my pressure stays down. Well, mostly at least...I expect I'll still have spikes.
Also, he referred me to an endocrinologist.
Evenin’ folks. Didn’t get back from thevets until almost 7:00 p.m. So we had dinner and Luke’s heading to bed.
Abby is still with us. I wish I could understand more of what thevet was saying, but here’s what I caught. She was dehydrated, which we knew. So they sedated her to do blood work and gave her some fluids. It was a progressive thing, depending on the blood work, we’d decided whether or not to go with the x-rays.
The blood work show several high levels. I can’t translate them all. Her lymph counts were high. Her “sugar” (or whatever they call it in cats) was high and her red blood cell counts were low. But he indicated that none of them were abnormally high. He didn’t find any obstructions through a general exam. And he said that the leg has a mass of scar tissue, but is otherwise fine.
So while I don’t understand it all, there’s enough in the blood levels to cause concern. He said it could be the beginnings of lymphoma either in the liver or the intestines. Or it could just be an infection (although her temp was normal).
So, he gave her a steroid shot and put her on an antibiotic. We’re to watch her over the next 48-72 hours. If she’s not better, then it’s decision time and the decision will not be the happy one. He was inclined to agree that there’s no need to do a series of tests and possible surgeries for a cat her age.
She’s still rather sedated. But she did manage to crawl out of her crate and get into her bed.
Poor old girl.
I bet she’s glad to be home...
Hugs for Miss Abbycat, she’s home and can rest. Now, Corin, you get some rest, too. OB & LSA
I wouldn't swear to it that she even knows she's home yet. But thanks. We'll see what the next few days bring.
In other news, she's fine, but Nana fell out of her wheelchair today while trying to pick something up off the floor (of course that's how she dislocated the hip the last time). She should be using her claw (or her "picker-upper" as she calls it).
Poor Abby... What a lot go go through. :-\ Hope the antibiotics and steroid do the trick for her.
OK if I come see kittens for a sec?
Sure :~D
And Corin... I’m sorry about Abby... and about Nana... yikes!
Thanks. We’re hoping the steroids and antibiotic can turn things around for Abby.
I’m afraid all the fall will do for Nana is make her more inclined to not want to get out of bed. She’s less and less interested. Mrs. thinks she’s peeved that she didn’t go last week.
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