66 points on the first move in Scrabble, out of a bunch of 1‑point letters.
A I L E R O N
Yessssss!… Read the rest
One thing that’s been frustrating me is that ever since I switched over to the Mac I haven’t been able to do anything creative with the computer. ironic, I know. Perhaps sometime I’ll write out my screed about how the mouse is the single shittiest user interface tool that’s ever been foisted upon graphic artists, but for now I’ll just say that on my PC, the Wacom tablet was a serial model and that even with an adapter it wouldn’t … Read the rest
Very happy because i figured out how to recover my saved playlists from before the big crash I had a couple months ago, and i have all my old iTunes playlists back, including:
The Consultant Mix
The Mays-Maria Mix
East of San Quentin
Two of the three Vikki mixes (Pathetic and Bitter… don’t know what happened to “Get Lost”)
and my favorite, called only “Transitional” which is Splicer’s not-quite-rap mix. It includes some early rap and some style-defining rap but mostly rap-influenced … Read the rest
Very very very very nice to do so. I picked the wrong week to housesit.… Read the rest
Warning.… this is 5MB QuickTime movie, so it might take a while for you to see it. But this was a trademark Loofah move. He would reach up and tug at my pant leg just as if to say, ever so politely, “Pardon me, sir, may I have your attention?”
I miss that little guy a lot. Ozzy does too.… Read the rest
He was only eleven years old.
He had his own song. Whenever Queen’s “Mustapha” came on the stereo, I’d follow him around singing “Loofah-fa Loofah-fa Loofah-fa Ibrahim.”
When I got home yesterday evening he was lying in the sink. It was kind of sad but also cute. I took his picture there. It’s the last picture I have of Loofah alive:
I feel a little bit better today. I think that crying for hours nonstop last night helped.… Read the rest
I’m afraid that Loofah was very very sick. When we got him to the vet his temperature was 97 degrees, which is four degrees low for a cat. He was badly dehydrated and had barely any electrolytes left.
It turns out that he had highly advanced diabetes and probably kidney failure. Either of those by itself would have meant a $3000 hospital stay plus a lot of maintenance for the rest of his life – twice-daily injections, pills, and … Read the rest
Well, lately Loofah has been losing weight. And in the last couple days he’s plummeted. I got home today to find him barely moving, and it looks as though he’s thrown up on himself. I’ve cleaned him up and he’s very lethargic. He’s barely keeping his head up on his own and when I moved him from the vanity to the bed so that I could use the basin to shave, he didn’t take the weight himself and settle in … Read the rest
Friday night I came “home” (to P a u l’s place) a bit later than I expected, and it was dark. I think it was about 10pm because I explored Orinda a little bit and the last showing of the movie I wanted to see was just about to start and the workers at the Starbuck’s were putting chairs up on the tables. After looking around a bit I headed on to El Sobrante. I was dreading it a … Read the rest
I have to say that I really love that I bought grown-up clothes and that I’ve been wearing them. I think I have to throw away every T‑shirt I own.… Read the rest