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chrystallineSo, I'm trying to get back into online life, and I'm not getting there smoothly. I did have a brief stint with a local print shop, but the owner there made my previous manager look like a paragon of steadiness and predictability, and her cavalier attitude about copyright severely grated on my nerves. I'm currently waiting tables at a small local restaurant, but it's not enough, so I'm also looking for something else. Of course, I'm not sure whether that "something else" will supplement or replace, and it probably depends entirely on TPTB at the something else. We'll see. I had hoped that the tips would improve as I got better at it, but it's settled at "slow descent into insolvency" so yeah, I'm looking.
As for journaling, I've more-or-less decided to go with LJ and Feed2JS on a static HTML page instead of WP, but I'm still going to have to set up WP long enough to restore the old posts so I can copy the rest of them back over here. For a while, I had it set up to only cross-post part of the entry, so I have to use the archived version of the WP blog to fill in the rest. Don't think it'll restore the moods, though, so I'll probably just remove the nonsensical numbers. It's going to take me a while; I'm always overheated from work (it's usually about 85F in the dining room and 95F in the kitchen, and the heat outside afterward sure doesn't help - 108F in the car today), I'm tired, and my back and feet hurt. Handy that LJ now links to FB for cross-posting there, though. Should help.
Oh, yes, I got another cat in November. He'd been running around stray for months, a little ginger-and-white tom with a stumpy little tail, and after Smokey finally bit the dust, I had room. (the complex only allows two pets per apartment) About the time I decided I'd try to take him in, he disappeared for a while, so I thought he had a home. A couple of months later, I was coming home in the rain and found him huddled under a bush. Poor guy; I decided I wasn't going to wait for a convenient weekend and scooped him up. He wasn't keen on the whole "being carried" thing, but I managed to get him inside without too much flailing. I kept him locked in the bathroom so he couldn't pass anything to Wyberd, and the next morning I dropped him at the vet for testing, shots, and a bath.
They confirmed he was healthy, part Manx (not mutilated, which the neighbors had claimed) and a longhair. My first longhair. Kind of troublesome, really, but whatever. I still kept him in the bathroom, with a flea-and-tick collar (and felt justified in doing so when I found a dead tick on the linoleum later) and after a few weeks, had him neutered. He was very angry with me that day; it's amazing how much emotional range "meow" can cover. Anyway, by the time he'd recovered from that (they'd advised me not to let him out with the other cat until he'd healed), he and Wyberd had managed to get used to poking at each other under the bathroom door. So despite my fretting, the introduction was anticlimactic.
I toyed with the idea of calling him GingerSnapDragon, as a play on Gingersnap and Snapdragon, because he's ginger (almost the color of my hair) and white, and because while he's playful, he's also harmless. It took him a few weeks to learn not to use claws while "wrestling" with me, so I had a lot of scratches for a while, but he's got it now, and he has a marked tendency to run like a rabbit whenever anything unexpected happens. Still, that was too much of a mouthful.
Then I thought, he looks like fire on snow, how about Snowfire? Ah, but that sounds silly in English, so what will Google Translate give me? I thought Irish would be apt, since Manx come from the Isle of Man, near Ireland. Unfortunately, while Google Translate would give me the Irish Gaelic words for "fire" and "snow," it gave me no idea how to pronounce them. I wasn't about to name him something I couldn't even say, and most of the other languages sounded really goofy to me. Japanese, though, worked okay: "Yuki" is snow and "Hi" (hee) is "fire" and "to" (toe) is a typical ending for boys' names, so I put them together as Yukihito, and only then realized that it sounded familiar. Quick check with Google - yep, it's an existing Japanese name, and at least one of the manga I like to read has a character with that name. Leave it to me to find the long way around :\
He's very vocal, which is annoying, particularly since his favorite time to be vocal is about bedtime for me. I grew up with a half-Siamese who meowed only rarely, so having a cat that yowls every night is...very different. At least neutering made his meowing a little less insistent!
As for journaling, I've more-or-less decided to go with LJ and Feed2JS on a static HTML page instead of WP, but I'm still going to have to set up WP long enough to restore the old posts so I can copy the rest of them back over here. For a while, I had it set up to only cross-post part of the entry, so I have to use the archived version of the WP blog to fill in the rest. Don't think it'll restore the moods, though, so I'll probably just remove the nonsensical numbers. It's going to take me a while; I'm always overheated from work (it's usually about 85F in the dining room and 95F in the kitchen, and the heat outside afterward sure doesn't help - 108F in the car today), I'm tired, and my back and feet hurt. Handy that LJ now links to FB for cross-posting there, though. Should help.
Oh, yes, I got another cat in November. He'd been running around stray for months, a little ginger-and-white tom with a stumpy little tail, and after Smokey finally bit the dust, I had room. (the complex only allows two pets per apartment) About the time I decided I'd try to take him in, he disappeared for a while, so I thought he had a home. A couple of months later, I was coming home in the rain and found him huddled under a bush. Poor guy; I decided I wasn't going to wait for a convenient weekend and scooped him up. He wasn't keen on the whole "being carried" thing, but I managed to get him inside without too much flailing. I kept him locked in the bathroom so he couldn't pass anything to Wyberd, and the next morning I dropped him at the vet for testing, shots, and a bath.
They confirmed he was healthy, part Manx (not mutilated, which the neighbors had claimed) and a longhair. My first longhair. Kind of troublesome, really, but whatever. I still kept him in the bathroom, with a flea-and-tick collar (and felt justified in doing so when I found a dead tick on the linoleum later) and after a few weeks, had him neutered. He was very angry with me that day; it's amazing how much emotional range "meow" can cover. Anyway, by the time he'd recovered from that (they'd advised me not to let him out with the other cat until he'd healed), he and Wyberd had managed to get used to poking at each other under the bathroom door. So despite my fretting, the introduction was anticlimactic.
I toyed with the idea of calling him GingerSnapDragon, as a play on Gingersnap and Snapdragon, because he's ginger (almost the color of my hair) and white, and because while he's playful, he's also harmless. It took him a few weeks to learn not to use claws while "wrestling" with me, so I had a lot of scratches for a while, but he's got it now, and he has a marked tendency to run like a rabbit whenever anything unexpected happens. Still, that was too much of a mouthful.
Then I thought, he looks like fire on snow, how about Snowfire? Ah, but that sounds silly in English, so what will Google Translate give me? I thought Irish would be apt, since Manx come from the Isle of Man, near Ireland. Unfortunately, while Google Translate would give me the Irish Gaelic words for "fire" and "snow," it gave me no idea how to pronounce them. I wasn't about to name him something I couldn't even say, and most of the other languages sounded really goofy to me. Japanese, though, worked okay: "Yuki" is snow and "Hi" (hee) is "fire" and "to" (toe) is a typical ending for boys' names, so I put them together as Yukihito, and only then realized that it sounded familiar. Quick check with Google - yep, it's an existing Japanese name, and at least one of the manga I like to read has a character with that name. Leave it to me to find the long way around :\
He's very vocal, which is annoying, particularly since his favorite time to be vocal is about bedtime for me. I grew up with a half-Siamese who meowed only rarely, so having a cat that yowls every night is...very different. At least neutering made his meowing a little less insistent!