The intelligence of cats.. especially Ziggy.

It's not any deep dark secret that Ziggy does not want or even like having Trance in 'her' house. But this is just mind blowing.

I saw Ziggy come into my study. She jumped up on the sofa, and instead of just curling up to snooze, she sat, with front feet not tucked up under her, and staring out the door. Watching.. just watching, ears perked forward. 

This caught my attention. So, I watched Ziggy.

A few moments later, I see Trance, kind of walking low and cautious, heading toward the laundry area.  I got ready to stop Ziggy from going after Trance, but Ziggy just sat on the sofa.. watching. 

Huhwha?  I got up quietly to check on Trance, and what greeted me was this: Trance almost getting outside, but for me nudging the laundry basket, she spooked and ran back into the front area of the house.

Ziggy had opened the side door but didn't go outside. Instead she came back into the study, hopped onto the sofa and waited. If it hadn't been for the laundry basket, Trance would have gotten out.

Ziggy couldn't have told Trance to get out any clearer, could she?

A bit of progress with Ziggy and Trance.

 

Yesterday, with me babysitting, err catsitting, Ziggy GLARED at Trance, but no sound FX, no attempt to attack. Trance deliberately kept her eyes averted because had she had returned the stare, Ziggy would have taken that as act of aggression, and I'm quite sure fur would have flown.

This morning

Keito came back in and like usual, Trance went to go see him (she is smitten by Keito for some reason), and Ziggy came out at the same time.

HISSSSSSSS so loud, sounded like cardboard box being slid across stone floor. I rustled the container/ziplock bag with her breakfast in it to distract her, speaking all sweetness and light to her, distracting her, and no fighting ensued.

Ziggy growled at Loki and he fwapped her for it. Then, later, he grabbed and 'hugged' her.
She growled at him again a few minutes ago, and he LOOMED over her "You were saying?".

Ziggy decided now was a good time to just be quiet.

A most unhelpful reply

I have been posting for 2 years on a thread I started on the Adobe Forums about CS6 Bridge being so slow. 

Some twit decided to say he didn't feel like wading through 4 pages/130 posts to see if he could help.

I asked him "Then why did you bother posting this reply?" 

He also said it's not a general problem.  Really?  I know quite a number of people who have this problem, many of them who didn't have an earlier version of Photoshop so didn't know its behavior was glacially slow. And instead of post "ME TOO!" they just visit the thread to see if there have been any new developments.

So, for this lazy person, I posted everything in one post. Did some copy/paste, some editing to make sure I wasn't repeating myself and posted it as a reply.

Not going to hold my breath.

Keito has a 'fangrrl'

Was woken up this morning by the sound of rummaging around on the windowsill. I could tell it was Trance rummaging around, because I could hear things being shifted and walked over, but no tag/bell noise which would have indicated Loki or Keito. it's good to know that even with Ziggy attempts at bullying her, Trance is exploring and wandering around the house.

So, sat up, turned on light, see Trance following Keito all around the room.  He went into the on suite bathroom, she followed him. He went into the shower stall, she followed him. He looked at me with the long suffering sigh, and walked out of the room, Trance on his heels.

Into the kitchen, chirping, meowing, body rubbing on fridge, cabinets and anything she could touch, she follows Keito. :)   Trance will follow Loki around, but not with such enthusiasm. :D  The boys are so tolerant. Just wish Ziggy to chill a bit.

After a week, you know it was the flu

I don't get sick often. And when I say sick, I don't mean allergies, or headache/migraine, but sick. Fever, chills, cough, body aches etc etc.

For the past week, I have been sick. Sicker than I have been in years.  Part of the problem might be because I don't get sick often, that when I do, it knocks me right down.

I'm over the worst of it, I think. Yesterday, we went grocery shopping, only for about 90 mins, and I was depleted.  I guess my energy reserves are bottomed out. Hopefully, tomorrow, it will be sunny, and just warm enough for me to take a short meander around neighborhood.  Going to take it slow, maybe bring my 'slacker' camera with me. See if I can spark some inspiration.  

Think I'm over the worst

I caught Wing 's cold/flu, and it was really hammering me.

I swear that even my hair hurt. A dry hacking cough caused by a throat tickle for 2 solid days have left my ribs extremely sore, to the point I wondered if you could break a rib coughing.

Yesterday, I had actually felt worse than I did the day before. Lethargic, feverish, pain. The day before, I had tried the sleep a lot but ended up tossing and turning, not very restful at all.  So, yesterday, I stayed up until I just couldn't keep my eyes open, took a nap about 4pm, back up at 6pm. Ate a very small meal, and then back to bed. I slept through most of the night.

Got up this morning, feeling weak as a kitten, but not so lethargic, not trying to hack a lung across the room, and the fever appears to be gone now. Ribs still sore as all get out, but since I'm not coughing as much, it's more an annoyance now.

Still not too eager to meet edibles, though.

*Does Jedi mind trick hand gesture*

"This isn't the moggie you're looking for"

Wing and I were in our bedroom, and we hear cat fight screech noise.

We quickly go out to break up possible dust up and Ziggy, with tail inflated, runs past us. (Gee, think she knew she was being naughty?)

We check on Trance, and she is ok.

So, we go looking for Ziggy.

The little brat of a cat dove back under her blanket/sofa tent, then came sttttrreeetching out as if she had only just woken up (her version of Jedi Mind Trick hand gesture)

"Who? Liddle ol me? Naw, I just woke up!"

Side effect of phone having a breakdown

Although I have most of my apps restored via GooglePlay, one of them seems to have vanished.

I went to the app author's site, Ximad, and saw the app was listed there, and sent my details of original purchase. The reply was "That app is no longer available on GooglePlay."  It was all I could do to not respond "No shit, Sherlock. That's why I'm contacting you." I reiterated that it was listed on their site for Android, as well as Windows and iPhone.

I got replay "That app is no longer available on GooglePlay."   I pointed out about their listing, and this time the reply was "We forgot to update the site. The app is no longer available."  I told them that due to the nature of the internet, the app was still available but I would prefer to get it from the original programmer/source.  Told again, it's not available. No explanation, nada.  I mean, if they had told me they sold the rights to it (they hadn't) it would be one thing, but what they did was pull it and put out an "in app purchases" version, which I did NOT want.  "The app isn't available"?

Really?  Then why was I able to find it elsewhere and install it?  No, I didn't pirate it, but after the 10 message runaround Ximad gave me, it was tempting.

So, screw you, XiMad. Anything you might come up with again can rot for all I care because your customer service sucks.

Dear Loki, the brave Hunter

Yes, you're skilled, but I really wish you would NOT catch large wood roaches, bring them indoors then let them go.