I’m not dead
Goodness it’s been a while. I imagine this is what will happen if I should get hit by a truck. I’d just stop posting and you’d all wonder what happened but you’d never really know, would you. Was I kidnapped? Did I lose interest? Had I fallen and couldn’t get up? Did I forget to pay my hosting bill? Or am I down in some dry well somewhere trying to claw my way to the top, like that chick in Silence of the Lambs?
Well I’ve been extremely busy lately and have not had much time to post although I keep thinking of all this scintillating topics. But then I forget them, sort of how when you wake up from a really fascinating dream and you think goddamn that was GREAT I’ll never forget that one! but then a little while later it’s kind of gone.
I have two feral kittens at my house. They’re not really feral anymore though. I had a friend who had them show up in her driveway and so being the resident cat whisperer I went over to help get them trapped and then over to my animal shelter where I volunteer. One was really friendly already and we just picked him up and brought him in. The other two were more difficult. I caught one with my bare hands while he was distracted (he did NOT like it!) and the other one had to be trapped in a humane trap, which is a cage with a weight-sensitive plate. You put the food beyond the plate, the cat goes in to eat, steps on the plate, and WHAM the door slams shut. So the friendly one is at my friend’s house and the other two are at mine for a week of socialization. Then we have a tentative commitment from one of her neighbors to adopt that pair together and the friendly guy will go to my shelter. I will put some pictures up tomorrow.
I have been working a lot on the back end of my photography site (meowhousemedia.com), trying to get all the coding right. I have two or three sets of pictures I have to put up there still. Got some decent ones of Sheryl Crow last week. I was using a Canon G9 since it was too late to get a photo pass and it did okay, considering I was about 50 rows back. They’re going to be a bit more “artsy” pictures simply because that far back + low light + having to crop everything results in a fair amount of noise. So it’s not a set of regular concert photo-pit pictures, but more creatively interpreted ones. I like using Photoshop sometimes anyway so I think they’ll be fine for what they are.
I am taking 11 days off work in a few weeks and can’t bloody wait. Not really doing anything or going anywhere but looking forward to doing things here, going to see my mum for a couple of days, doing some home repairs, staying up late, getting up late, lounging on the patio, and just generally being a lazy bum. I have tentative plans to go to Ireland in October or November as long as my friend who lives there part time is there. I have to start checking on flights for that.
This week I’ll be going to see Nine Inch Nails on Friday, staying overnight in Worcester, coming back to Boston on Saturday morning, then going to New York City in the afternoon and staying overnight. I expect I will be completely exhausted by Sunday.