MmmM…. comfy and relaxed… the day off is just what I needed. Caught Newt on cam, and fooled around with filters. the orange is his true color. I like the shoulder-stretch escpecially, with the ears down and the eyes squinkied up.
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re- the current downtime –
from Brad –
New servers
Yeah, it’s slow, I know. We’ve been waiting for the new servers to arrive and they finally have. Now Dormando, Evan, and I are going to set them up and install them tonight.
Paid users will get double or triple credit for the time it was down. Paid users are also going to be getting their own database server now too, just like they already have their own webserver. In another month or two we’ll have to get the paid users another webserver but for now the 3% paid users of the active users are doing fine on 16% of the web serving hardware. It just seems like they’re not working because they’re sharing the same 3 databases with the free users. Well, tonight we should have 5 database servers, one for use only by paid users.
I’ll keep you updated, but please stop mailing me.
I hope that fixes any troubles…
A wave of mixed feelings. I feel good about having seen my sweetie tonight, and today…but aside from that…
Trouble putting it into words… my temper has been flaring up… making me jumpy, agitated…
tomorrow’s date night with the sweetie pie, hopefully that’ll go well…Ideally I’ll calm down tomorrow night.
Here’s my first attempt at a AIM Icon (more of an excuse to fiddle with flash than anything else.)
Still in the works… not as smooth or clean as it could be, but it’s a start. My skills with are have always been sort of weak. maybe change the transfer speeds.
I feel some trepidation for some reason. I’m going to go to bed. Perhaps I just need some rest. I think I’m just cranky and overtired.
I can only think of a few ways this could get better.
Current Scenario – Heavy Rain. Cat purring at feet, snuggly. Me, freshy showered and shaved… in a semi-hypnogogic state, eating fresh sunflower bread with peanut butter for breakfast, with a side of hot earl gray tea.
Improvements – Skip work. Get my sweetheart in here. Spend the day in bed, reading, talking quietly together, feeding each other, making love and sleeping in each other’s arms.
For at least a week.
yeah.
Newton treats – thanks to everyone who gave links!
Okie doke, I’m back, and baking for baby.
Cookies For the Kitty
Yield: 1 Batch
1 c Whole wheat flour
1/4 c Soy flour
1 ts Catnip
1 Egg
1/3 c Milk
2 tb Wheat germ
1/3 c Powdered milk
1 tb Unsulphured molasses
2 tb Butter or vegetable oil
Preheat oven to 350F. Mix dry ingredients together. Add molasses, egg, oil and milk. Roll out flat onto oiled cookie sheet and cut into small, cat bite-sized pieces. Bake for 20 minutes. Let cool and store in tightly sealed container.
(Recipe from the Massachusetts SPCA from Best Friends March 1995)
and I’m making bread for myself in the bread machine!
*singing pattycake to newt, who has been just dosed with a nice sprinkle o’ nip.
What can you bake in an oven that’s suitable for kitty eating? I don’t think he’d eat baked fish… any ideas?
I awoke this morning gasping for air like a landed fish. It seems that my nose stuffed up during the night, and with the cpap on, that’s a bit of a problem. I think the shock of such a rude awakening is what dissolved much of my dream today. I can’t recall what it was last night, save that my sweetie was with me, and we were laughing about something. I just remember us getting a wicked case of the giggles…
Newt’s a big doofus today.. cuddle-biting, wrestling with my ankles… (they’re just begging to be bit apparently!) I don’t want to go to work! I just want to play at home with the cat. Can I validate taking a day off? hmmm…. nope, not really… got a fresh project coming online in a day or two. Maybe I’ll skip work tomorrow if I can get away with it.
Here comes the rain… must submit to purrs and white noise of drips.
I’m going to snuggle in bed with Newt and a good book, with some champa burning.
Current Book – Great Apes – Will Self
word of the day – juxtaposition
juxtaposition juk-stuh-puh-ZISH-un, noun:
A placing or being placed in nearness or side by side.
Juxtaposition comes form Latin juxta, “near” + positio, “position.” The related verb is juxtapose, “to place side by side.”
Newton and I sleep in a comfortable juxtaposition more often than not. 🙂
Gravity seems especially strong today. Who turned up the G?
I can’t seem to shake off the sleepies… I went to be early, got up late, had a hot then a cold shower. I’m still in plod mode. Newt’s making me drowsier with his cuddles and purrs. Hyp-mo-tized…wish my sweetie was here to snug with us, and drift back to sleep.
Man… shake it off! Newton is tougher than a field of poppies!
Got my first bill at my new place last night… Power! 🙂 I’ll pay it Saturday morning when I cash my paycheck & do laundry. My clothes are just about exhausted. I have enough to get me through *maybe* Monday.
There, I’m home, after mailing off some belated letters to my then-vacationing sweetheart.
July 1-3, anyhow. As soon as I unearth 4-6, another packet! 🙂
Settled in… lime freezerpop in hand, and reading the daily news at last… Newt has a lovely ice cube in his water, which he is digging, quite a lot.
I wonder where my sweetheart is… I’ve not seen her all evening!
bellsouth 780-2355 7-7 m-sat. Call first thing tomorrow morning.
fpl is set in motion now.
Just Packing… I’ll turn on Newtcam so anyone who wants to, can see me pack my stuff, and behold Newton chewing on cardboard. 🙂
Cool beans… got a phone call at 1pm today, looks like tomorrow night I’ll be getting the key to the new place. Hopefully, Saturday I’ll move in, and be settled in time for my sweetheart’s return on Sunday.
Whatever will Newt do with all that space? 🙂
Sun shined through my slatted shades, and from above. My eyes drew open and I could see down an infinite hallway. Newton was striding towards me, perspective gone all arbitrary.
“You have been meddling with the primal forces of Nature, and you will atone! Hey, Scotto! What movie is that from?”
His nostrils flared and his eyes glittered with feverish hilarity. Closer now.
I went to sleep late last night, but I set my alarm for 10:30
I had fallen asleep.
I may have dropped discipline, but my training was still on duty. Dreaming 101. Look at your hands.
I looked at my hands.
Just like Don Juan taught Castaneda. People usually don’t see their hands in dreams. Look at your hands and take control of the dream.
I slammed the door shut but knew it wouldn’t hold long.
I was on my feet, with a days growth of beard. Khaki pants, green and white striped shirt, and for shade’s sake, a USS Nautilus ball cap. The sun was a bright yellow beam of heat and light beaming into my room. I turned to Newton and said “So, what’s the plan, little buddy?”
He looked me dead in the eye and said nothing.
Good News, boogaloos!
Gold! I’ve struck gold!
Apartment, allows Newton, good rent, within 3 blocks of my old place, so I don’t have to relearn Neighborhoods. Open house is tomorrow at 2pm. *does the swim, then the monkey.
Oh, if it’s good, and they’re nice, I wonder if I could slip in there next week? Get all my moving done while mah sweetie is off doing other things elsewhere…
Welll, if anyone was going to send me stickers, wait until I post my new address…. Hoody Hoo!
More room for me, and my stuff, hopefully coming soon!