Pamela

I had to edit my email address here and happened to read my last few posts. I just realized that I hadn't posted about my sweet Max.
( Cut so you won't be spammed. )
Hrm, I'm gonna have to cut this. I wrote much more than I intended. Just normal for me -- once I start talking, I don't stop easily ;)

From megarandom and Slashdot:

If anyone is interested in being invited to help improve Evernote, I have ten invitations left. Just email, message, or answer me here.

You can find out what it does here

It's 23 degrees F. (-5 C.) on my front porch. I've managed to warm this room all the way to 48 degrees (9 C) :P

The high tomorrow will be 48 degrees. And 20 (-7 C.) tomorrow night. I realize some of you are sneering at such gentle cold weather, but we're not used to it down here. It hasn't gotten this cold in eight or nine years!

I'm going to spend the night with Bonnie tomorrow night. At least I can get warm enough to sleep there.

I'm praying for my pipes. They're about fifty years old, and not wrapped. I hope they can take this stress. I've got a faucet running in the back yard and one in the kitchen.

No resolutions this year, I think. I'll just do the best I can with what I have and try harder than before to get it all right ;)

I hope all of you have a happy, healthy, and worry-free 2008. You've been generous with your hugs and well wishes through my and my family's crises, and you're appreciated whole bunches!

Well, after so long, Nyx is dead.

( Cut with gory details that might ruin appetites )

I miss him. Well, I would. I had him 14 years. I look around to see what he's doing. I automatically check to see if he has food and water. And so on.

Everyone advises me to get another one immediately. I don't think so. For one thing, it wouldn't feel right. I wouldn't get another cat when I had Nyx because I knew he wouldn't like it, and now I just need some time before I make that decision. It's not one that's easy to get out of if one changes one's mind.

I do know that I'll never own a pet again without having pet insurance. If I'd been able to afford it, I'd have insisted on the vet's taking the leg at the beginning. The cat would have had a fighting chance that way, at least.

As far as anything else in my life goes, it's pretty much all the same, I think.

I think I'm going to cancel December from now on. I lose far too much in Decembers.

Nothing will be done. The vet thinks that the tumour is benign, and since it doesn't bother Nyx and the circulation isn't being cut off and he has full use of the leg, we should just leave it alone. He could try to remove it, but it's so big it would involve nerves and vessels and too much muscle loss. I'm so relieved! I had decided that if it came to it, I'd tell him to amputate, and I'm very pleased it didn't come to that.

Thank all of you for your hugs and good wishes!

Love,
Pam

Stolen from shevek:

( Picture, cut so as not to slow your friends' page loading. )

Pledge to buy one pound of local food a week!

Because 'going local' is a small step that can lead to big change. Food in the U.S. typically travels 1500 miles and generates five to 17 times more carbon emissions than food grown locally.

Stolen quite shamelessly from my son, megarandom:

( Which Star Trek Character Are You? )

Stolen from billazilla

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Gamer/Computer Nerd   You enjoy the visual stimulants of a video game, chatting on AIM, or reading online comics. Most of these types of nerds are considered dirty who lack hygeine, of course they always end up being the ones who make a crapload of money. And don't worry, that's just a stereotype; I'm not calling you dirty. ^_~
Social Nerd
Musician
Artistic Nerd
Science/Math Nerd
Literature Nerd
Drama Nerd
Anime Nerd
What Be Your Nerd Type? Quizzes for MySpace

Stolen from someone -- so long ago I don't remember who.

Your Brain is 73% Female, 27% Male

Your brain leans female You think with your heart, not your head Sweet and considerate, you are a giver But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!

stolen from hennes

Aren't animals wonderful? For hours I was upset and worried and everything negative untiil I put Nyx in my lap. Now I'm still mentally whirling because there's no way out without hurting someone but I'm calm and relaxed. In the space of ten minutes!

He is getting bossier, though. When he considers it cold enough or late enough to go to bed, he goes to the door and complains with that annoying Siamese voice!

For those interested and maybe a little lost, since the change was made a few days ago, Split Infinity MUD can now be found at telnet://splitinf.org:4000/. (The server is still 62.242.79.65, only the name has changed.

The web pages will be at http://www.splitinf.org.

Sorry about the delay. I'm going to be emailing folks today, too.

Come see us! We miss you guys!

Pam

Stolen from elementalmuse. This is one very useful site:

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

Link from billazilla:

The following people not on the friends list for pammienyx are "close to it" according to the metric that TrustFlow defines. Numbers represent distance; people listed earlier are closer than people listed later.

• transcriber0f9 (50 - 100)
• koresh, 561, zootalures, fluxen, marnameow, justinep (100 - 150)
• korpora, cyberiantiger, jaydeja, rzigweid, dizze, icklemichael (150 - 200)

( More results behind the cut... )

</form>

( Venting )

Bah! Humans are irrational! ;)

From a Distributed Proofreading forum:

( Read more... )

I give up. Stolen from yossefk, this link. It should be amusing, but I just see the silliness. Maybe I should be sleeping instead of wondering just how convenient it would be, considering the clothes women wear. As ewtikins, says, "GRAH!"

Thanks to yossefk's post reminding me, I now have Google Talk as pammienyx at gmail.com. Gmail seems to have become a lot easier to sign up for, too.

No new news, except the the common sense-less doc has _finally_ (after over 8 months of intense pain and increasing loss of mobility) decided to x-ray the knee. On the other hand, the doc the sense-less one referred to me is a very kind one who actually believes people hurt, and gave me methadone. (Don't worry, Martin, I'm being very stingy with them, and only take a half pill maybe twice or three times a week, when the twitchies get bad.) 

Kinda makes one wonder, doesn't it? ;)