Where'd the weekend go?!
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Thanks so much for all the suggestions on how to deal with the Polly/Zoe problem! Even though we're a long way from having the situation resolved, the Feliway seems to working pretty well at keeping Polly calmer. Funny that I'd never even heard of the stuff before![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
textualdeviance and vampry brought it up... but when I talked to the folks at my vet's office about solutions, that was one of the first suggestions they had!
I had to take Zoe in for her third booster vaccination earlier this week, so she's now all caught up (which she may have been before, but we have no way of knowing for sure). So, while I was there anyway, I outlined the situation and had both Dan the Vet Assistant and Dr. J (the vet on duty that day) pipe up with the Feliway... both suggesting the spray version rather than the room diffuser (which apparently has extremely limited effectiveness and is quite expensive). They also gave me their standard printout of ideas and explanations of cat behavior (though they both said it sounded like I'd already worked through most of the list). They did recommend stopping the scent swapping thing for now, since it just seems to make Polly more paranoid.
Dr. J said the best thing at this point was to take it slowly and give Polly plenty of time... and to try the Feliway to reduce the feeling that Zoe is everywhere. And then, if it still doesn't seem to be working, they'd look at getting Polly some meds to help her relax. I made a joke about giving her Kitty Valium and Dan the Vet Assistant said that what she really needs are a couple belts of Kitty Scotch to mellow her out. At which point Dr. J's eyes lit up and she asked if Polly reacts at all to catnip... and when I said yes, she said "Well then, you just need to get her stoned before you bring her in the house." Hee!
So, Polly now has her "little friend" (an old sock with catnip in it) that I give her about five to ten minutes before bringing her in the house. It has helped her mellow out considerably, as has the Feliway. We still haven't had the two cats together at all... at this point, I'm just trying to get Polly used to being in the house again. Although she still has a tendency to only stick around for a few minutes before dashing back to the safety of the garage. At least she's acting more like her normal self.
I found another really good article about the "wi-fi cloud" over Hermiston, OR and the surrounding area. This one goes a bit more into the business model involved and into why it was set up there in the first place. Basically, it's a showcase... a place to show off exactly what can be done with this sort of a system, but still with a sound business model to make it a worthwhile venture. Much like the wi-fi network they've got running in Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA, this one can also be used for more than internet access -- e.g. for the city to read parking meters remotely, for farmers to control watering systems or to check weather conditions, etc. Very clever. I really need to remember to stop and try it out on one of my many trips through that area.
This weekend I finally got a chance to watch and record off some of the shows I still had on the DVR from last season (what can I say? It was a busy summer!). I can't believe I hadn't gotten around to watching the end of Numb3rs, which ties Veronica Mars as my favorite new show of last season. If they ever came up with some sort of arc-like storyline, it would win, hands down (no matter how much I love VM). You know, it just occurred to me that Navi Rawat has been on three shows with actors I consider to be the hottest on television... even sharing scenes with at least two of them (James Marsters on AtS and many scenes with David Krumholtz on Numb3rs), but I can't remember her ever shared a scene with Kiefer Sutherland when she was on 24.
Speaking of 24, this morning I started in on the last few episodes of last season, only to discover that I'd missed the last half of the finale (stupid two hour finales) and the DVDs aren't due out until December. Fortunately, I'm pretty sure I've tracked down someone who has just the last hour available for download. Yay! On the down side, they don't seem to have as fast a connection as I do, so I've still got another five hours on the download.
The latest tidbits of news we've gotten about Dresden Files have made me weirdly more optimistic than I had been before about JM getting the role. I still don't think it'll happen, but previously I had my doubts that they were ever even seriously looking at him for the part, and now I think that they actually were. So, on the theory that any amount of optimism above zero is, well, MORE... yeah, I'm more optimistic about it now. Still keeping the optimistically pessimistic outlook that it's not very likely to happen... then I can be happily surprised if it does, and just shrug it off if it doesn't.
We hit a restaurant supply store yesterday to pick up a few things that Alton says we need (*monotone* and we all must do what Alton says */monotone*). He was right, the prices were quite good on things there, and they had some items I'd not found elsewhere. For now, we just augmented our current stash of cooking supplies with some spring-loaded tongs, a micro-plane grater, a pastry knife thingy, and a flat metal scraper thingy (perfect for bashing garlic, among other things). Oh, um, I also dug out the old bongos I had up in a closet (a present from my friend Shakespeare, who sadly isn't on LJ, back when we used to host Bardic Circles at our house every other week), turned them upside down and shoved old dishtowels in the bottoms of each side for cushioning... and we're now using them as utensil holders (*cough*just like Alton*cough*). They work really well, though, and look pretty spiffy!
Thanks so much for all the suggestions on how to deal with the Polly/Zoe problem! Even though we're a long way from having the situation resolved, the Feliway seems to working pretty well at keeping Polly calmer. Funny that I'd never even heard of the stuff before
textualdeviance and vampry brought it up... but when I talked to the folks at my vet's office about solutions, that was one of the first suggestions they had!I had to take Zoe in for her third booster vaccination earlier this week, so she's now all caught up (which she may have been before, but we have no way of knowing for sure). So, while I was there anyway, I outlined the situation and had both Dan the Vet Assistant and Dr. J (the vet on duty that day) pipe up with the Feliway... both suggesting the spray version rather than the room diffuser (which apparently has extremely limited effectiveness and is quite expensive). They also gave me their standard printout of ideas and explanations of cat behavior (though they both said it sounded like I'd already worked through most of the list). They did recommend stopping the scent swapping thing for now, since it just seems to make Polly more paranoid.
Dr. J said the best thing at this point was to take it slowly and give Polly plenty of time... and to try the Feliway to reduce the feeling that Zoe is everywhere. And then, if it still doesn't seem to be working, they'd look at getting Polly some meds to help her relax. I made a joke about giving her Kitty Valium and Dan the Vet Assistant said that what she really needs are a couple belts of Kitty Scotch to mellow her out. At which point Dr. J's eyes lit up and she asked if Polly reacts at all to catnip... and when I said yes, she said "Well then, you just need to get her stoned before you bring her in the house." Hee!
So, Polly now has her "little friend" (an old sock with catnip in it) that I give her about five to ten minutes before bringing her in the house. It has helped her mellow out considerably, as has the Feliway. We still haven't had the two cats together at all... at this point, I'm just trying to get Polly used to being in the house again. Although she still has a tendency to only stick around for a few minutes before dashing back to the safety of the garage. At least she's acting more like her normal self.
I found another really good article about the "wi-fi cloud" over Hermiston, OR and the surrounding area. This one goes a bit more into the business model involved and into why it was set up there in the first place. Basically, it's a showcase... a place to show off exactly what can be done with this sort of a system, but still with a sound business model to make it a worthwhile venture. Much like the wi-fi network they've got running in Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA, this one can also be used for more than internet access -- e.g. for the city to read parking meters remotely, for farmers to control watering systems or to check weather conditions, etc. Very clever. I really need to remember to stop and try it out on one of my many trips through that area.
This weekend I finally got a chance to watch and record off some of the shows I still had on the DVR from last season (what can I say? It was a busy summer!). I can't believe I hadn't gotten around to watching the end of Numb3rs, which ties Veronica Mars as my favorite new show of last season. If they ever came up with some sort of arc-like storyline, it would win, hands down (no matter how much I love VM). You know, it just occurred to me that Navi Rawat has been on three shows with actors I consider to be the hottest on television... even sharing scenes with at least two of them (James Marsters on AtS and many scenes with David Krumholtz on Numb3rs), but I can't remember her ever shared a scene with Kiefer Sutherland when she was on 24.
Speaking of 24, this morning I started in on the last few episodes of last season, only to discover that I'd missed the last half of the finale (stupid two hour finales) and the DVDs aren't due out until December. Fortunately, I'm pretty sure I've tracked down someone who has just the last hour available for download. Yay! On the down side, they don't seem to have as fast a connection as I do, so I've still got another five hours on the download.
The latest tidbits of news we've gotten about Dresden Files have made me weirdly more optimistic than I had been before about JM getting the role. I still don't think it'll happen, but previously I had my doubts that they were ever even seriously looking at him for the part, and now I think that they actually were. So, on the theory that any amount of optimism above zero is, well, MORE... yeah, I'm more optimistic about it now. Still keeping the optimistically pessimistic outlook that it's not very likely to happen... then I can be happily surprised if it does, and just shrug it off if it doesn't.
We hit a restaurant supply store yesterday to pick up a few things that Alton says we need (*monotone* and we all must do what Alton says */monotone*). He was right, the prices were quite good on things there, and they had some items I'd not found elsewhere. For now, we just augmented our current stash of cooking supplies with some spring-loaded tongs, a micro-plane grater, a pastry knife thingy, and a flat metal scraper thingy (perfect for bashing garlic, among other things). Oh, um, I also dug out the old bongos I had up in a closet (a present from my friend Shakespeare, who sadly isn't on LJ, back when we used to host Bardic Circles at our house every other week), turned them upside down and shoved old dishtowels in the bottoms of each side for cushioning... and we're now using them as utensil holders (*cough*just like Alton*cough*). They work really well, though, and look pretty spiffy!
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Date: 2005-10-17 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-17 01:26 am (UTC)They do have a decent wood pattern though, so while they don't sound very good, they do look pretty... and I have to admit I'm rather pleased to have found a way to put them to good use.