Pets, Photography

Friday Cat Blogging

Shelly

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Polly, reclining in Harriet’s bed

Harriet may be unamused at times that her house has been invaded by kittens, but she’s (mostly!) being pretty good about it.

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Henry and Polly in their kitty habitat

I picked up a few new toys this afternoon, on my way home from PT. I stuck some of them up on the bookshelves, so they’d be out of reach. I figured I’d dole them out slowly. Polly and Henry had other ideas. I hadn’t turned my back for two seconds before they had the mate to this toy off the shelf. I guess that means the kittens approve.

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Angry little toy

Crankypantsing

Note to Coworker

Shelly

Dear Miss BusyPants,

Since you are constantly complaining that you have too much work and too many responsibilities, I am at a loss to explain why you have suddenly taken it upon yourself to track down and (re)label all of our unit’s book trucks. And, most importantly, why are you interested in which trucks are in my cubicle? It’s really none of your business, and I’m pretty sure you have better things to do than A) bother me, or B) spend 45 minutes flittering around the department, distracting everyone while you determine who has which truck(s).

In short, I realize that you think you should be in charge of the universe, but you aren’t, so please go back to your cubicle and stop bothering everyone. And by “everyone,” I mean me.

Thank you.

Crankypantsing, My Garden, Photography

Coral Bells

Shelly

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This was a Lensbaby shot, with a +4 macro attachment.

Did I mention the big, horrible computer crash here? Well, Cracktop crashed. Or, rather, the start files for his OS were permanently corrupted, which meant I couldn’t boot into Windows, so I had to wipe everything and reinstall from scratch. Good times. It could be worse, though. I only lost eight music files (!), a couple of weeks’ worth of email, and my calendar.

It took a couple of days, but I think I’ve pretty much got everything back up and running. I’m sure there are some small, unitasker programs I’ve forgotten about, but printers/scanners aside (and that’s a topic I’m still mulling over) the bulk of the software and hardware I use is re-installed. It took me most of the day yesterday just to re-download the Adobe software I use, onna counta IU’s server is crazy slow. And since the’ve broken everything up into separate parts, I had to babysit the downloads. Have I mentioned that I’m not the princess of patience? Aieee!

As for my scanner, since I still don’t know whether or not that was at the root of the crash, I’m not going to reinstall it, period. I just don’t trust it, so I’m going to buy a new one this weekend. I’m thinking about getting another all-in-one combo, only this time, a Canon Pixma, since I’m super happy with how long Canon inks can sit dormant without drying out. That should do nicely for occasional color printing, for arting purposes.

For boring old document printing, though, I’m thinking about also getting a monochrome laser printer. They’re uber cheap these days, as is the toner. Seriously. Monochrome printers are comparable in price to decent inkjet printers. Cartridges for the one I’m looking at are around $50, which is cheaper than most inkjet ink, and laser toner lasts a lot longer. It just doesn’t make sense to use an inkjet printer for plain old document printing any more.