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Evolution of a man-cat relationship

Once upon a time, Jack and the manfriend had a tense relationship. They seemed to be developing a friendship until one night that Jack did not take kindly to something the manfriend said, and dispensed with a hiss and a face smack. After that, Ray did not care to have much contact with either kitty. For a while. Seems like during the winter break, while I have been slaving away over a hot computer monitor…

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Day 9/365: Snow Night!

I utterly wasted my entire day today. I missed brunch (a grave mistake I will not forgive myself for anytime soon) and tried my best to nurse a hypochondriac (AKA MAN) back to health. I made a bitchin’ pot roast and we spent the evening peeking out the window at the snow, stuffing ourselves with wine and comfort food, and singing karaoke with the aid of YouTube. Please enjoy the following butchering of some classic…

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Day 5/365: CueCat

Wrestling at work with some quite frustrating QR code integration issues (and getting steamrolled by the marketing department’s demands in the process). Was shown this by a co-worker who recounted for me the great CueCat debacle of the ’90s and ’00s. Because people apparently thought having a dedicated barcode scanner was somehow a greater convenience than simply typing in a URL. People are weird. And stupid, I meant to say stupid. Also, is anyone else…

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A milestone: My first passive-aggressive neighborly scolding

I didn’t grow up in a neighborhood, so I am sort of having to learn what it’s like to have passive-aggressive asshole neighbors. Unless, I guess, you count the year that someone poisoned all my parents’ dogs and most of them died. I guess that would qualify as passive-aggressive assholishness. Anyway. I got home tonight and the boyfriend showed me this note that had been stuck in the front door earlier that day. I will…

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