Happy/Merry/Joyous/Bright *insert your holiday here*

Be safe, be warm, and make merry, people!

And it started off so well

I felt Ziggy was stagnating in the lounge, so I toted her out to the pet enclosure, closed the door so Simba and Lucy stayed in the house. Ziggy was totally blissing out. Loki came up from the outside, and I unzipped the door and brought him in. They both were blissing out in the sunshine, hammocks etc. He and Ziggy were doing just fine until my son decided to let Loki in. I went back to the door, and there was Ziggy looking forlorn, so I opened the door to let her in. Simba and Lucy came out from where they were hiding running straight at Ziggy, and Ziggy dove into the kennel.

Managed to get her out of that, and into the house. She dove under the breakfront, and Simba who is much larger than she is, just stood there and looked under the breakfront.

30 seconds after I left the room, Simba squirmed under the breakfront, and he and Ziggy had at it. Considering how small a space, and the fact Ziggy spat out a mouthful of fur, I think Simba came out 2nd best.

I brought her back into the lounge and closed to door so she would chill out. Then after a while, checked her for damage, and then checked Simba for damage. Didn't find any. No harm no foul, I guess.

*sigh*

Loki says...

Wrapping presents is exhausting work! (even if he isn't the one doing it!)

Good music can soothe

I searched high and low for this CD for years. It arrived today.

"My sunshine, light of my day. Now your a star in the darkness, light years away"

ARGH!

Luckily I did back up the data and copied the back up elsewhere.

I tried to install the PalmDeskTop for my Treo on the Windows 7 machine. It goes through all the usual Usb detected, installing device, and then just stops there. It goes on and off, on and off on and off etc etc non stop, only to say "Device not installed". Ok, now my device is stuck in an endless restart cycle and if I do a soft reset (keeping the data) the network setting don't load. If I do a hard reset, I have to reinstall everything again, and it start with the endless cycle again. I'm sure it's just one program on there that is causing it, but finding out which one it is.

Are we having fun yet?

Wow

Went to see Avatar, in 3D. Man, was that a good movie. It was the quickest 3 hr movie I ever sat through.

Aikidomayland started picking it apart before we had even gotten back to the car, in his typical buzzkill fashion when he doesn't get it. He somehow missed the reason the humans had to wear O2 breathers, even though it was clearly stated in the first 20 mins of the movie. He also got "squeamish" during a scene when the jackass jarhead got shot with two arrows. I pointed out that he didn't get all squeamish when Boromir in LotR got three in the chest.

But I digress. Excellent movie, more than lived up to the adverts. Want to see it again, without Buzzkill.

Micro pillage for summer items.

Got a new water feature circulating pump for my splash pool. A slight 'McGuyvering' and it becomes a great water filtration unit and keeps the pool clear and clean. (that and 1 cup of household bleach prior to use!)

Also got some Feliway from our vet (synthetic happy cat pheromone) to help de-stress Simba and to help break him of 'improper toileting'.

Pool is nice and cooling, but I always want to take a nap afterward.