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General update
Aug. 6th, 2009 06:33 pmI've had vacation. Four lovely weeks. The first two were spent at home, the third in Norway meeting lots of lovely people, and the last week was at home again. Now I'm back at work, where nothing much happens at this time of year. Before I left, the office AC wasn't up to cooling the building; now it's too cold instead. In the most recent reorganization, I've got a new boss and a load of new colleagues. In other words, the stuff I do now belongs to a different department. This is probably a good thing, though I will miss my old boss whom I really liked. The new boss seems very good too, though, so I don't think it'll be any problem, but it's always a bit sad to lose a good working relationship.
The cat problems ended with the girlfriend's cat getting a new home. The girlfriend noticed that he's been a lot more tense since they moved in with us, and has been constantly trying to keep himself in a dominant position. This was very apparent when we took Tusse and Arthas to the vet for a day (Arthas got neutered, Tusse had a few teeth extracted due to FORL). As long as they were away, Mao was his old cuddly self, but as soon as they got back he went back to sitting on the highest shelf and monitoring the others. He now lives with Calle's brother, girlfriend, about two years old son, and two dogs. They live about 30 minutes drive from here, in an area with very few cars. We think he'll be a lot happier there, and hopefully so will Zeta once she gets the courage up to go upstairs so she can see that he's gone. And when we were at the BILs home, we found that their neighbours' cat had just had a litter, and one kitten was still not spoken for. It turned out to be a male, grey with some white, and we "booked" him. So in September there'll be a new small one around the house.
It seems Melanie, mother of my foal, will be rideable. So far we're working her at a walk and the occasional slow trot, and her lameness is pretty much gone. You can notice that she doesn't put her right foreleg forward as much as the left one, but that's about it. She seems very happy to be doing something, and I am of course delighted to be back with her. And my own horse is growing, and is right now a bundle of teenage hormones - which can be a handful given that he weighs around four times as much as I do. He's perfectly good natured, there's no viciousness in him, but he doesn't want to take orders right now. We'll be gelding him in a couple of months, when the flies won't be so bad.
That's about all I can think of at the moment, except that the girlfriend has got me hooked on Criminal Minds. So instead of going "just one more thing" in WoW I'm now going "just one more ep" at night, and sleeping too little. And plot bunnies are running around in my head. Buffy/CM crossover...
The cat problems ended with the girlfriend's cat getting a new home. The girlfriend noticed that he's been a lot more tense since they moved in with us, and has been constantly trying to keep himself in a dominant position. This was very apparent when we took Tusse and Arthas to the vet for a day (Arthas got neutered, Tusse had a few teeth extracted due to FORL). As long as they were away, Mao was his old cuddly self, but as soon as they got back he went back to sitting on the highest shelf and monitoring the others. He now lives with Calle's brother, girlfriend, about two years old son, and two dogs. They live about 30 minutes drive from here, in an area with very few cars. We think he'll be a lot happier there, and hopefully so will Zeta once she gets the courage up to go upstairs so she can see that he's gone. And when we were at the BILs home, we found that their neighbours' cat had just had a litter, and one kitten was still not spoken for. It turned out to be a male, grey with some white, and we "booked" him. So in September there'll be a new small one around the house.
It seems Melanie, mother of my foal, will be rideable. So far we're working her at a walk and the occasional slow trot, and her lameness is pretty much gone. You can notice that she doesn't put her right foreleg forward as much as the left one, but that's about it. She seems very happy to be doing something, and I am of course delighted to be back with her. And my own horse is growing, and is right now a bundle of teenage hormones - which can be a handful given that he weighs around four times as much as I do. He's perfectly good natured, there's no viciousness in him, but he doesn't want to take orders right now. We'll be gelding him in a couple of months, when the flies won't be so bad.
That's about all I can think of at the moment, except that the girlfriend has got me hooked on Criminal Minds. So instead of going "just one more thing" in WoW I'm now going "just one more ep" at night, and sleeping too little. And plot bunnies are running around in my head. Buffy/CM crossover...
