All I get at Yuku's home page is Willy Wonka, so they must be updating their servers.

That friendly wandering black cat that roams our neighborhood was playing in our back yard this morning. It acted like it wanted in the house, but got upset when it saw Mel.

It went around to the front of the house and ate some food out of the bowl. I picked it up and it purred in my arms. I'm pretty sure it's a male cat that's been neutered.

I took him upstairs for awhile, but the longer he stayed in the house, the more upset he got. He didn't like being locked up in a room and when I let him out, he got really scared of the other cats, especially Hermes who kept wanting to investigate things.

But he eventually got so stressed out that the inner eyelid of his right eye covered up half the eyeball and he started meowing louder and louder and eventually lunged at me. He also lunged at Hermes and scared the shit out of him.

At that point I decided to let him back outside. He's lovable as can be when he's outside, but I just don't think he's meant to be an indoor cat, especially with other cats around. Since he's neutered, he also probably belongs to someone, unless he was abandoned. I think he may have come from one of the nearby trailer parks. He's only barely bigger than Pepper and he's slender, but not emaciated, so he isn't starving.

Mel had investigated him briefly, too, but lost interest. She must be used to other cats being around now, I guess. Pepper and Lady never even knew he was in the house.

Other than that, I bought a mop... to go with that bucket. Yay. And I finished the Atlena dungeon of Equinox.

Networking issues causing mysql and web downtime

Posted (October 11th, 2009 at 6:13 pm PST) by andrea

Unfortunately, we're experiencing some networking issues that are affecting our web (including PS) and mysql servers. If your site is suddenly not loading or can't connect to the database, it's most likely related. We're looking into this and will be posting updates as soon as available. Sorry about the inconvenience!

Dreamhost issue.


I was using my Equinox guide to help reconstruct the Quagmire map. (I never finished it and lost my preliminary map, so I'm redoing the level according to my guide.) Guess I'll just have to use the version on my hard drive.

Picture quality's nowhere near as good as the digital camera, but... Lady on a coat!





I wish I got one before she fell asleep because when I first looked over, she was just sitting in it in that position where the cat looks like it has no legs (I sometimes call that the "gravy boat" or "rubber ducky" pose), and she was looking right at me with a big goofy look on her face.

Edit - Now she's got her arms stretched out. (I tried to get one from an above view, but if I get too far from the computer, I can't click the button to take the shot)