Here are two of my old kitties that I miss dearly.

That was ‘Tig’ a bengal. He was an arsehole but I respected that. probably noisiest little fucker i’ve ever met.

And that was ‘Sheba’ an abby. Probably the sweetest cat I’ve had. When I snored she’d sit on my chest staring down at me, I’d wake up and I think she was impressed by the noise. When I get another cat it’ll be one of those.

I can’t deliver baby cat pics of the current pair, but here is last time I adopted a tiny one. Still miss him so much.

Green bag shenanigans instead of doing the housework.

Toddler woke up screaming, woke the cat. While im settling the toddler cats giving me this look of death. I said sorry. He replied by going to claw the shit out of the armchair

One last old kitty photo:

She (Sheba) was always so devved when it was silverside was not her thing. She would just stand there and silently protest.

are upvotes broken?

I think my luck is starting to turn. But we’ll see. Goodnight everyone ❤️

Yay I made it. Good night.

Trust me, watch this. It’s only 30 seconds or so: Seagull kids

ah crap… I think I’ve picked myself up a sick while I was near other humans. That’ll teach me to leave the apartment.

I started the day off with a walk and a hearty breakfast.

One load of washing has been hung. A leg of lamb has been pulled from the freezer to defrost. The sun is shining, the cat is purring on my lap, so far today is shaping up to be a very good day.

Yep, last night I spooned some of the beef broth into a bowl, let it cool to a safe temperature and Melbcat eagerly drained it. It got the thumbs up. Seems it has to be homemade and very plain with nothing weird added.

I’ve had this low-priority to-do in the back of my head for years - “Learn Python”. I’ve just never needed to get across it for any reason when there are other languages I’m more familiar with.

But now my oldest is leaning Python at school. First coding lessons stuff. They’ve got some Logo (the old turtle drawing basic scripting thingy that I learned in the 80’s) module they load and then they’re combining Python and Logo code to draw stuff. It’s actually pretty fun. I find myself debugging his code though. Which is a problem when I don’t know the language syntax.

Watching a complete novice approach a simple problem, I’ve really, really taken for granted how to think like a coder. No wonder people think nerds are from another planet. The problems coders face literally require you to think differently.

So anyway, I’ve started learning Python. I hope I find real uses for it beyond helping the kids with homework.

First morning waking up at 7 instead of 8. Going to bring it down to 6 in a month or two. I normally suck at maintaining a sleep schedule, but this has been working.

All I did was keep my phone out of my bed and set my lamp to turn on a minute before my alarm goes off. I’ve gone from seven alarms that fail to wake me up because I turn them off in my sleep down to one that wakes me.

I think it’s a good thing, having a set schedule, and I like waking up early enough that it’s quiet outside still. So peaceful.

So fucking cold though

Hmm I don’t know what to have for dinner tonight.

Seems I may have lost my appetite today after having an argument with someone close to me this afternoon.

Need to keep my mind occupied and busy to stop dwelling on things.