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We should be getting intartubes today, provided all goes well. The move on Wednesday went well -- they gave us an estimated price for 4 guys, 2 trucks for 8 hours and it ended up only taking 5, whee.

Picked the cats up yesterday - Nefer is taking it more-or-less in stride, although as at the last place she really, really wants to go into the garage and is annoyed at us for not letting her in there. Sora spent the first hour or so at home wandering around mewing plaintively, then curled up under the bed to feel sorry for himself for another hour before coming out and investigating the place thoroughly. He's very needy right now, and I had to throw him off me several times during the night because he wanted to sit on top of me and pummel me knead me roughly while purring.

And of course because it never rains but it pours, on Tuesday my car started intermittently showing the brake warning light on the dashboard. I looked it up on Thursday morning in the manual, and it was either that my brake fluid was getting a little low or OMG CATASTROPHIC BRAKE SYSTEM FAILURE GET OUT OF THE CAR, BACK AWAY SLOWLY AND CALL A TOW TRUCK NOW!!!. When the manual tells you to get the car towed... So yesterday we drove to the closest Authorized! Saturn! Service! Provider! and left the car there. I should be getting it back today, yay.

Feeling off-kilter today because I forgot to take my meds yesterday what with the car stuff happening. Of course. :)

Also, last night we were standing in the garage with a flashlight sweeping up remnants of the box of trash the previous owners left (some sort of glass-ish stuff in there, the flashlight was to look for reflective stuff the garage light wasn't picking up) when a woman across the street and down a house or two called out and asked if we were looking for a mouse. Huh? We said no, and she said that she could have sworn a mouse ran over her foot. When the exterminator came last week, he went into the attic and said that there were old mouse traps up there, so I expect the neighborhood as a whole has mouse problems. He treated for rodents and other pests, so hopefully we won't have any more. The area is surrounded by plains, pretty much, and we'll be having a toll road driven through it in the next couple of years, so I expect a lot of displaced wildlife to show up.

And speaking of wildlife, the neighborhood has several killdeer in it, which I think is totally awesome. :)

Things That Scare My Cat

The vet.

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Urg

AT&T Uverse installer failed to show up, and naturally neitehr of us can get through to customer service because they're "experiencing long wait times" and tells you to call back or use the website before hanging up on you. So you don't get the chance to ask for "a fucking customer service rep" because if you use profanity at the machine, it slots you through to a real person instead of making you go through the menu of options.

Website, naturally, has no record of order.

My prediction is that, after the trouble of convincing them that yes, we did want overlapping service at our two residences, with the current service ending July 31st and the new service starting July 22nd, some nimrod saw the July 31st end date and helpfully rescheduled the install to August 1st. It's been both my and my mother's experience that ISPs do not understand that people do actually want overlapping service - Mom reported it took her, like, 45 minutes to convince the Verizon rep that she wanted internet access at her old place and her new for a month.

Your prediction?

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I have no idea what you're talking about, but here's a video of a leopard trying to hork up a hairball.

Buddy movie!

With our cats we have our very own buddy movie, starring Stinkybutt and Dainty Paws.

You can probably guess who's who.

We had two cats when I was growing up, Dakota and Vermont, which got corrupted to Deacon and Varmint pretty quick, which sounds like a Western buddy movie.

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