sundries

Is 11-year-old boy reicarnated WWII pilot? This is sort of unclear and boring at first, and then when you get about halfway through it, it's like "oh, well, yeah, that is a bit weird."

Did something really wanky happen on yuletide last night that the mods had to delete posts?

I'll add to this later. Have to bring the cat to the vet now. Oh cat. ETA: on cat -- she's getting fluids, blood and urine tests, a vitamin shot, her nails trimmed and x-rays. They think it's her liver. I'll know more later and yet more tomorrow.

Welsh rugby player comes out. [note: audio file, when I find a transcript, I'll link] This is slightly old news (a few days), but as you might imagine, if it's both about gay stuff and Wales, about 80-billion people link me to it. And it's good stuff. So hey! Also, in the land of shallow: I really do love the accent. (I do! Stop laughing!)

The holiday cards came. They look STUNNING. So those will start going out "soon."

OMG, Yuletide pinch hit while dealing with sick cat.

I watched Gattaca for the 80-billionth time last night. If you want to get me (or the lens through which I tend to view and get attracted to other media), watch that. No time to wax poetic about it today, but "I never saved anything for the way back." To think I once had a lover who said I only liked it because it was gay and well art directed; he was so afraid of me.

Los Alamos National Labs just accidentally blew up a building. I have the sudden urge to say that "dynamite is never the only option." Way to go, guys.

cat update

Photo by sykii Note kibble strewn all over the floor behind GIANT FUCKING CAT.

Okay, the x-rays came back and her liver looks enlarged, but there don't seem to be any growths or tumors or anything. Additionally her teeth look fine, and the growth on her face remains something non-intrusive and not worth worrying about. They now think it's cystic instead of a slow-growing cancer. This is good. They suspect that the liver problems are secondary fatty liver caused by whatever it causing her not to eat enough. We'll know more tomorrow when the blood work comes back. Right now she is being started on antibiotics and various vitamins to support liver function. Her blood sugar is all wacked out, which sometimes happens from stress, but she might have become diabetic, which I've been worrying about for a while. We may decide to do an ultrasound soon to see what else is going in internally with her (gall stones are a possibility). The hope is that she comes home tomorrow with symptoms we can manage either in the short term until a diagnosis is more clear (i.e., if we need to do the ultrasound) or in the long term (i.e., if we know it's diabetes). Originally they were going to let her come home with me tonight, which I thought seemed odd, so while I'm worried they want to keep her over, it is also what I expected. The vet doesn't seem more concerned than she should be considering the cat's age and obesity, but she is old enough a cat that this could be a final illness thing, although the vet isn't talking about that yet as anything other than we talk about that in cats this age. Yeah. So, I'm a little stressed out. Little is an evil monster who I love very much. I'm just grateful I have the $$ for the vet bill, which isn't going to be pretty (I paid $450 earlier, then we added x-rays ($300) and with the boarding and shots and drugs we're probably in the $800 - $1000 total range right now, and she may need an ultrasound as a soonish later date which is SCADS of $$). Ah well. She sorta does this like once a year, and whatever it is, I'll be glad to sort it before the cruise and we'll board her for that if we have to if she's going to need constant observation or lots of shots or something. Poor kitty.