I am still feeling like canned cream-of-shite and am calling in sick for the remainder of the week. I have been laid low and humbled. But amazingly I felt this evening like living seems marginally better than dying. As my dad put it tonight, “you feel like you are going to die and then you pray that you will…”
The title of this post – no pics just yet, sorry – refers to our new Christening of the kitten formerly known as Melody. Now we affectionately refer to her as “Mrs. Reynolds” which is a nod to the character Saffron from Firefly. She is bodacious and evil. Pure essence of cunningly alluring evil. She is no longer a kitten but turning into a sleek beauty.
It is a lie.
I have a picture of her waiting like a coiled up serpent in our Christmas tree. Check back in this post later for the pic.
But first a video
Here you go… She is about 3-4 feet up in the tree. She did not find the Pickle Ornament first in spite of base camping there.
That last pic FTW!!
Been missing y’all on teh cam, but understandable as to why. I have been dealing with sick kids and cranky Hubby. He ain’t sick, just cranky about having to work.
*counts the hours until kids go back to school*
That first pic was how I discovered her. CW had seen that act days before but I was so work-swamped I missed it entirely.
Do the kidlets have this plague that has been going around?
Son has strep, Eldest allergies, and Little One is just fine for now.
Hubby has allergies, insomnia, and I have to deal with everything.
Gotta love an evil kitty.
She is the “little black dress” of the young cat world. Devastatingly effective in the right hands or paws but capable of doing very naughty things.
Best description ever
I like the last shot with the kitty-eyes! Makes me think of the creepy McGoo-eating carnivores that I KNOW are waiting to “get me” every time I wander out near the snow-covered woods at night!
LK, I bet you were feeling better due to that royal virtual drubbing Veeshir and I gave you (for medicinal purposes only) the other day. No, no – no need to thank us!
Heh. I know a bunch of parents who are also “counting the hours”, LC!
I actually ate at the dinner table with the family tonight. That is major progress.
Perhaps you and veesh should market “Abuse in a Bottle” for the cold remedy market?
I’m okay with that.
Even if it doesn’t work, I get to slap some people around.
this is why i get a flu shot every year.
I got a flu shot this year like I do every year. I think something slipped through that the med people aren’t talking about much.
I’d read that the CDC (or whoever) “missed” a bit on their guess as to which sub-strain of flu was going to be prevalent this year. I guess that might reduce the shot effectiveness.
I do know that the local hospital is infested with the crap, and is requiring visitors to mask & gown before visiting patients (my elderly uncle got it and is in there now). I didn’t know a mask and gown would block viruses (virii?)…
I am not at all surprised that they misjudged this batch.
I think a mask and gown will help against a lot of aerosolized virii but not all. I picture it being more like the effectiveness of cheap Ukrainian condoms. Better than nothing but still playing Russian Roulette.b
Hey McGoo, I was reading an old post and you had a comment where you said you were going to try to make .500 S&W sabots for yours.
Did you do it? How did it work out? Are you called “lefty” now?
Enquiring minds want to know.
V – I never got around to doing the .500 S&W, but did mess with .50 Action Express sabot rounds for my Desert Eagle. I was putting “light” .45 rounds into a .50 sabot and messing with various powders and loads. I got 10% velocity improvements and some interesting effects, but quickly discovered I was losing my nerve and was unwilling to try the faster powders apparently necessary.
I’m looking into some ballistic software to make better powder/load tradeoffs as we speak. I’ve “winged it” as far as I’m willing to go.
…And, I AM already sometimes called Lefty. I would like to keep it that way, since I’m left-handed! I DO NOT want to be called Righty, though.
Too bad we weren’t in the same area, I have a H&R Handi-Rifle in .500 S&W, that would be good to try out the rounds.
It can handle higher pressure and if it goes “Boom” (use a string), it would only ruin a $140 gun.
Or we could just let LK fire it, that way nobody important gets hurt.
Har har. I would fire an over pressure round. It’d be a hoot unless it went wrong. But the way things have been, what more could… Never mind.
Ambush predators are the best.
Hope you are feeling better.
Yep. Ambush predators are Natures way of saying “fuck you, slowpoke.”
Ambush predators, giving you a cold shot of urine to the heart since 500,000,000 BC.
She just knows she looks good in that tree.
She does. She does know it, the black hearted little bitch.