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So return of kittycam didn’t last very long – Lizzy moved them almost as soon as I set it up. I guess I was being the obnoxious human and interfering too much. Whatever.

They’re now in a kitty-tunnel kinda cat toy thing at the foot of my bed. The babies are growing so rapidly now! Bennie (formerly Sum) is still being out-paced by Victoria (formerly Dim). Bennie also has some kinda of visible deformation of his/her ear – I really don’t think its anything other than a cosmetic feature. Since Bennie seems to be doing fine otherwise, I’m not really worried too much about it. If it is a cosmetic problem, there’s really nothing to do other than wait till the cat is full grown. The only thing that looks odd is the pointy-ear-tissue. It looks like its torn or not closed up somehow. Other than the ear and being a bit smaller than Victoria, Bennie seems to be doing just fine.

They’re both more adventurous and are starting to be able to move about – its a lot of fun watching a kitten learn to walk since before now the fastest way to get from Nipple A to Nipple B was to roll. Ah, those were the days.

Soon they’ll be all grown up and off to college!

The kittens were born sometime between 6 pm and 11.30 pm on January 13th. Unfortunately I wasn’t home at the time, which is something I would have preferred – I’m the over-protective type when it comes to my kitties and I would have liked to have witnessed it! Oh well.

Lizzy delivered three kittens total, but one of the little guys didn’t survive the process somehow. Since I wasn’t home I’ll never know what happened. But the surviving two are the most amazing little creatures! I already have homes for them, but I needed to call them something until they go off to their new lives so I named them Dim and Sum, since they look like the little chinese dumplings you’d see at a dim sum restaurant. And of course its a terrible pun.

Dim is the bigger of the two and is the one with the orange spot right above the nose. Sum is visibly smaller but is VERY feisty when Dim is pestering him. Its been a while since I was around newborn kittens and I had forgotten just how tiny they are! Lizzy is a fabulous mother though – she’s really protective and makes the funniest noises! Whenever I pick up a baby to give it a kiss her paw always shoots out and lands on my hand with that sort of “YOU BE CAREFUL WITH THAT NOW OK??” look on her face. Amazing.

Well friends, here it is – the 11th of January and this little brat still hasn’t produced a litter.

In anticipation of the blessed event, if it ever occurs, I have taken the completely nerdy step of setting up a kitty cam for your internet voyeurism needs. This, dear readers, is the only kind of kitty porn that is legal.

You can spy on us at http://kittycam.dgpi.com/

As I cannot guarantee placenta-free viewing, viewer discretion is strongly advised.

Soo I got my car new shoes for Xmas, and they arrived by UPS today. I got two on very easily but the third wheel turned out to be a bit dramatic… you see something caused the jack to slip from the car and my hand was under the tyre when that happened.

** stares at hand **

LUCKILY my fraternity brother, neighbor and frequent target of abuse Jimmy was just hanging out with me when it happened. We both kinda stared at my finger, under the tire, for a few moments before we realized what happened. Then the pain kicked in.. its not comfortable having a car on a finger. After shouting at him to get his roommates cars jack and call 911 I managed to get my jack out from under the car and get the other one under the car and the car off my finger.

It was black from the brake dust and asphalt, and flat from the car. No kidding – perfectly flat. About after about 2 minutes a fire truck full of very attractive firepersons and paramedics showed up to take pulse, etc. I dunno why i told him to call 911 – it just seemed to be the appropriate thing to do when a car is on your finger. Anyway, they did the pulse thing and the blood pressure thing and offered to call a bambalance but Jimmy was able to take me to the ER so i saved myself that bill.

I wrapped my finger in frozen peas (organic, naturally) and headed off to the ER. Little bit of this, little bit of that and a few X-rays later the Dr. comes out and says “I can’t believe it, but the X-rays don’t show any fractures!” YAY lucky day for me!

So I have a date with the ASU health clinic sometime next week for a follow up – but so far so good. I may have a torn ligament or something perhaps but no broken bones.

Welcome to 2008!

Amazingly enough, this youtube clip is 100% kittehs free!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkRex-zyt7c

Meet Porch Cat.



Say hello to Porch Cat.

Porch Cat is probably abandoned by the neighbors that just moved out. I’m going to do some searching around the ‘hood to see if he’s belonging to anyone, if not I’m going to take up the family business: kitty rescue!

Click the picture to go view full size. Porch Cat has amazing green eyes.

Wide Stance.

These are some of the images that I used in my ‘Wide Stance’ project – poking fun of and exploiting/exploring the issues brought up when Senator Craig of Idaho got busted for soliciting sex in a men’s restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. There’s a whole lot about the story, so Google it or check it out on Wikipedia..

But he claimed he wasn’t soliciting sex after all, and that his toe-tapping was actually because of his ‘Wide Stance’ thus began the project…

Some of these images are probably NSFW, so click at your own risk

So I called FedEx today since the status on my packages hasn’t changed since October 27th. Corporate transfers me to the local station and the guy there takes my tracking number and goes off to investigate..

..a few minutes on hold later he returns to tell me that there is a ‘Security’ notice on my package and that this usually indicates some dip-shit-knuckle-dragging-fuck-monkey (my term, not his) has STOLEN my box. So now I have to start haggling with the shipper in order to get my new toys. This displeases me, because of course they’re based on the East Coast which means what? That’s right boys and girls – they’re three hours AHEAD of Phoenix time (until Sunday) aaaaaaaaaaaand closed. To make matter worse, their customer service line prompted me to leave a message and then as soon as I started speaking, informed me the message box was full, thanked me for calling then unceremoniously disconnected me.

So everything else that I’d ordered from other stores got here before the items I ordered them for will ever been seen. *sigh*

No more FedEx.

p.s. UPS delivered a day early.