#Caturday celebration: our regular vet worked after hours to take care of #Twin and allowed him to come home! Likely cause of the loss of balance: OTC flea product. Not in ketoacidosis. Will have to be injected w Penicillin at home for three days, which is a challenge, but we can deal. He ate w gusto when he arrived at home and put some food on his nose to show you how okay he is 😻 Thank you for all the healing love for our Original Cat 😻
#CatsOfCoSo

#Caturday means waiting to speak to our vet about #Twin and trying to catch up on sleep. #Gandalf is the sleeping buddy and on the left of my shrinking spot when I got up. #Balazs is on the back of the couch and #Zoli is in the blanket.

As #Caturday has rolled around in our time zone, we are still at the clinic, with no answer in sight. But I have taken these photos of @junation and #Twin.
#CatsOfCoSo

#Politics #PoliticalPhilosophy
Jeremy Bentham was a fuckface. Nonetheless, as the quote shows, he recognized and considered suffering. In non-human animals. The only way you can do what #GregAbbott wants (pushing kids back into the river) if you deny humanity and sentience in your victims. The way it was done in concentration camps. This fucking world hurts my soul big time.

Someone sent me this from Ravenous Butterflies and I want to share it on

@daniel
I gather it is your birthday. Joyeux anniversaire!

It was exactly ten years ago today that @junation and I closed on our house and got the keys. We moved in with two dogs, both of whom have left our world since then, and one cat, who is now the head of a clowder. The house is small and very run down and full of rescue animals. It is also full of love. It is our home. And this is our cake tonight.

Techies upgrading their phone: the following performance indicators and specs...
Me upgrading my phone: look at the new case I got!!!!

Doing a potty break with four dogs is tricky, so I sometimes only take half the spunk and attitude and then come back for the second half. What this looks like in practice is taking 175 pounds of herding dog in round one, and 20 pounds of Lhasa Apso in the second. Then the two rounds have equal spunk and attitude.
#DogsofCoSo #Malcolm #Lepke #Mozart #Neville

Goodnight CoSo!
Tonight I leave you with the confession that I don't care who thinks what of how I use social media, and that is a good thing: The FB algorithm thought I should see this. I am not mad.

Christianists like to wonder what makes people gay and their favorite answer is drag queen story hour. That answer is both hateful and wrong. So I propose that we look into whether not being able to figure out someone's eyedrop regimen could make them gay.
/Sarcasm font

Spoons. I don't got them. I so fucking have no spoons... (Health problems, job search, the whole fucking deal)

Guyzzz! I am so excited to finally own one of these backrest things! Been wanting one forever. Yes, it is from Aldi from the weekly specials aisle. No, it wasn't on my shopping list. So?

Wheezing. Lots of wheezing earlier tonight. Used my rescue inhaler for only the third time in my life. Pulmonary function test on 7.21. New very necessary skill: talking down an agitated, barking and freaking out #Malcolm and demonstrating to him that my breathing has normalized. As a #TherapyDog he has visited many sickly ppl and I had to demonstrate that I was okay. Once my breathing was normal, he lay down to take a nap. This is how I know that #WeDontDeserveDogs #DogsofCoSo

Experiment: it's what's for dinner! Vegetarian chili loaded baked potatoes with smoked Gouda. And Goddess help me @junation is already asking me to make it again. But it was improv with no recipe... I recall paprika I brought w me from Hungary, Sazon, and I forget the rest.

Did anyone need to see some #DogsofCoSo posts? Because I have these photos of #Malcolm and #Mozart to maybe #FloodTheFirehose #FirehoseCleanse

Open mic underway. This unassuming woman got up there w her guitar and fuck me swinging she sounds like Patti Smith. I also feel ashamed that tonight is our first time in here but better late than never, right?

Rum runner acquired. Pizza on the way. We'll eat and then it is a women's open mic at an old an dingy local deli and bar with a lot of character. (We are audience). I am working pretty fucking hard to claw my way back to some ki d of normal.

It is #Caturday so here are the big stripy guys: #Gandalf to your left and #Balazs to your right. So now I have proved to myself I can still post here, yay! Having a bit of an emotional thing going on...

The second giggle I offer this morning comes with a story. My T shirt pile this morning took me back to the time several years ago when on a Sunday, I was recording a voiceover on the Power Points for an online gen ed government class, wearing this same shirt. I didn't realize that I was not only recording the slides but also myself, and posted the video. With the shirt, my messy hair, and faces I make when I talk. Sent an email afterwards saying sorry about that. Fun times.