welcome to camp telophase

D.Va sulked for part of yesterday morning after myrialux took away her millipede. There were loud complaints.

I was driven nuts this morning by a cardinal's feeding call (cheep.....cheep.....cheep) outside the window. And then D.Va showed up and started going nuts. I couldn't see any birds, but then...I eventually discovered...the nest. Zeus and Hera (or Z&H Jr) have a nest in the tree outside my window.

And D.Va is currently angry at the wasp that is having the temerity to hover just outside myrialux's office window.

Sora has been sleeping in a basket on my desk through all of this excitement.

THE CAT WITH NO NAME NOW HAS A NAME!

I REPEAT, THE CAT HAS A NAME!

The Cat With No Name is now named...
( cut for name and pic )

You have a river. On this river are barges, among other river-type boats carrying passengers and cargo. There are no locks on this river. The barges need to stop at places to tie up for the night.

What are these places called? Docks Piers? Moorings? Barge stops? Something else? If you were going to meet someone there, you'd say "Meet me at the ______?"

YOU'D THINK THIS WOULD BE AN EASY GOOGLE.

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In other news, we're bearing up from the events of last week and missing Nefer. Sora is weirded out because That Other Cat is Not Here, and because myrialux and I dealt with our feelings by vigorously Kondo-ing our spare bedroom and its closet, and getting rid of or re-homing the crap left in our master bedroom after we Kondoed the master closet a few months back, so Things Are Not In The Same Place. Other than that, he's pretty much fine because they never got along all that well.

I have moved the house-shaped cat bed that Nefer used to sleep in next to my head, because I have to admit I'd really hated it being there, but it was the best solution to keeping the cats from fighting over me at night. Sora had gotten it during the day as part of their timeshare arrangement, and I found him curled up on the spot where the house had been the next day, so now I move his house to that spot during the day, and move it back to the foot of the bed at night.

For the first few days, I think Sora was expecting Nefer to show up, because one day he and I were sitting on the couch when something in the kitchen--I think it was the icemaker--made a series of soft noises that were roughly similar to the way her claws clicked on the floor, and he immediately sat up and started sniffing the air in a suspicious manner, and then slunk off. Hasn't happened since, though.

Mornings and evenings are the hardest.

Our older cat, Nefer, isn't doing so well. She's got kidney disease and may have crossed over from stage 3 to stage 4 recently. Her arthritis is also really bad and we think she's in a lot of pain. ( cut for stuff )

Late start for work today because Nefer woke us both up complaining, and it turns out she's most likely got another UTI. We had to take her in to the vet, who could work us in this morning, luckily, so she's got a shot of antibiotics, a shot of painkiller, and a sample taken for culturing to figure out which bacteria it is. We've also locked her in the spare bedroom and bathroom with her own litterbox, food and water, and the microwavable heating pad to give her a few hours without Sora going YOU SMELL WEIRD AND ARE ACTING FUNNY I SHOULD TRY TO DRIVE YOU OUT OF THE PRIDE.

She didn't want to be locked up, but the painkiller is a morphine derivative and the vet assured us that life was going to get very good for her about an hour later, so I expect she's snoozing away in a sunbeam right now, content in the knowledge that she is now edging ahead of Sora for the title of Most Expensive Member of the Household.

Meme time!

( What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be? )