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Time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.
It's a humid and currently dry day here chez Casa Reynard after plenty of rain overnight and early doors.
Slept ok-ish. Have spent the morning working on some writing and sorting out some paperwork. According to the forecast, it looks like it'll be dry this afternoon, and so I will probably pot on the tomato and strawberry plants I bought last week.
The kitten I was offered is now on the CP website, and looking at her photo I think I made the right decision in saying no. She doesn't grab me visually, and frankly, she looks a little bit terrified. There is another cat on their website that is a *much* closer fit to what I'm looking for, so I'm actually rather surprised that I wasn't offered this one instead. I get the sense that the people at CP are either a) not listening to me at all or b) think that they know far better than me about what it is I want.
I may arrange to go and meet this girl, though it's a bit up in the air at the moment. Because I'm currently waiting to hear back from the friend who is fostering a cat that I'm interested in for a breed rescue as to whether the issue with this girl's eyes (corneal ulcers) is fixable or whether it's chronic and has led to other non-fixable problems. This cat was surrendered to a breed rescue by an elderly owner who was too unwell to look after her properly, and so she is in a bit of a state of neglect. It's one of those sad situations that you can't pass judgement on.
Anyways, it is time for luncheon, and a certain furry madam will be wanting her chicken...
We've had another one 'move in' to ours, a shorthair tricolour. A stray she lived for a time with the Romanians next door but then their ginger tom bopped her one and she moved to another Romanian couple 3 doors away but it seems they just put food outside for her but then one day she found our cat-flap and the bowls of biccies on the floor so decided "I like it here" and stopped, the 5th* cat to have come here through their own choice and it's not like we lock em up as they have permenant access to the cat-flap and outdoors.
- Whitey, an odd eyed white shorthair who slept in a car that was slowly being stripped for parts
- Fifi, a black and white shorthair who was from Walsall that after a domestic brakeup came to live at the girl's cousins house with her (Fifi's) 4 kittens. just wandered down the garden one day and Maz heard the cousin (Corinne) saying "well we've found homes for the kittens but not the mum who seems to have cleared off" so Maz popped round and explained and we adopted her.
- Fluff, a long haired black and white feral who used the house as a 'crash pad' and feeding station for months and hissed at us until I decided to make friends with him when Maz was away.................took me three days but when Maz returned she was shocked to see Fluff curled up on my lap.
- Woody, a black shorthair rescue from a feral colony that when the 'rescuer' moved got left behind and no wonder as he used to 'poop' anywhere. One good thing was he didn't get on with Fluff and used to hiss at him, but Fluff (an entire male) wasn't having any of that so used to chase Woody and if he caught him battered seven shades out of him.
What was wrong with Windows 95?When I finished in my previous job in May 2016, I still had a computer with Windows 95 sitting on my desk. I used it to connect and program/fault find old telecoms systems from the 1990s (a few customers still had such things) over an analogue modem. We were never able to get the software required to work on XP for some reason so we kept the old computer alive.
When I finished in my previous job in May 2016, I still had a computer with Windows 95 sitting on my desk. I used it to connect and program/fault find old telecoms systems from the 1990s (a few customers still had such things) over an analogue modem. We were never able to get the software required to work on XP for some reason so we kept the old computer alive.
I'm still running XP on the computer, due to working hardware replacement costs. Especially when they work.This is exactly why I'm still using the Vaio, as my good imaging software won't work with Win 10, and I don't want to fork out to "rent" the newer version. TBF, I also don't need the excessive functionality of the newer software.
What was wrong with Windows 95?
I have four different versions, plus the upgrade from c to d.
One for the statisticians on here.
What are the chances of three seperate, unconnected, digital clocks/timers all "stopping" at the same time?
Or did something happen today at 15:44?