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Awesome! Congrat! I actually did that once myself. Then got divorced, gave her the house and back to mortgageville. And I don't regret one bit of it.

She's supposedly 5 years old. and tomorrow will be one week in the house. Things feel much better tonight. When we first brought her home, we isolated her in the back bedroom as suggested by a lot of adoption sites. And she did very well. When she started trying to get out the closed door, we thought that maybe she was ready for the whole house. I now believe we were wrong. At first she was very active and affectionate but as the days went on she went to hiding under our bed most of the time. And you all have read my panic post from last night. So I think we fucked up. We let her out of the safe room too soon and the whole house freaked her out. We decided today to go back to the safe room process. We moved food, water, scratching and litter back to the spare bedroom. Several hours have passed and we just popped in to see her - alert, affectionate, interested in food, drinking water. We also added a vaporizer that dispenses Feliway pheromone that is used widely to calm nervous cats. It's an excellent turnaround from last night. We plan on keeping the safe room environment for much longer this time so she can get used to us and the sounds and smells and maybe not freak out so much. Bottom line - so far it looks like it was human error. We'll be watching her closely in case further Vet attention is needed, but I think we're back on a good track. Thanks for your help and concern.

So sorry for your loss Mike. Like others, I will raise a glass in honor of Denver tonight. Rest easy girl.

OK, so we need some kitty expertise. We took Gumby to the Vet for an initial (and free, from the Humane Society) 1st checkup. Nothing out of whack except that she is overweight and needs a dental cleaning. Besides this the Vet declared her healthy. Now our issue - since her initial intro to the house, she has been very lethargic, mostly wanting to hide under the bed(s). Tonight all she wanted to do, once coaxed downstairs, was to lay on the sofa and sleep. Add to this the fact that she has eaten very little since we adopted her and our worry level is pretty high. She ate very little dry food initially. We switched to moist food. No interest. The Vet suggested boiled chicken or canned tuna. Tuna held some interest for one feeding, no go for a second. Boiled chicken (Vet suggested) was a complete "fuck you, I'm not eating that." Not sure where to go from here regarding food. She had originally been in our laps when we ate people food, so we assumed maybe she had been fed a lot of table scraps, but tonight she showed no interest in pork chops so wtf? We're not real happy with the free visit to the Vet provided by the Humane Society, so we are thinking of traveling a little farther away from home to go to a clinic I really trust, from my previous married life, to have a wellness check done. They do total blood work in that check which the closer Vet did not. That should tell us if there is any underlying issue. So are we freaking out too much? I've owned cats before but never one as challenging as this. Feel free to tell me to calm the fuck down but I am worried about this little girl.

Steve, you're welcome to come back and hang out on the deck any time you want.

Gumby hangin' out.

My best guess would be Riciardo (sp). He's young, will do what his bosses say and won't buck Vettel. Sounds like exactly what they want as long as Vettel keeps winning.

Yep Gene, I've been owned by cats before.

Spectacular looking chow Al, Joanne and Grahame! Especially drooling over the corn.

She's gone from hiding under the bed to actively coming to us to be petted and scratched. I believe we have a winner here. And yes, Gumby is pretty killer.

And we have settled on a name. For us, what else could it be but Gumballhead? She's a bad cat.

This is what's left. I'll be taking these to Mom tomorrow.

Trying my first baby backs on the Weber Genesis. External probe thermometer is helping me get to 225F. Apple wood in an improvised smoker box. We'll see how it goes.

Actually, she's a chubby timid 5 year old.

Picked up a new member of the family. Currently named Maddy but that will probably change.

Thanks! An excellent read of a period I lived through via many of the albums mentioned. A nice fleshing-out of some of the music a 70's midwest kid with personality issues came to love.

Happy Birthday Todd!! Thanks for keeping the asylum running!

Agreed Steve. The dynamics behind the teams these days are so complex with sponsors, driver sponsors, manufacturers etc., it's amazing any decisions get made. Unless you're Ferrari and then it's just the Italians making decisions. Wrong decisions, but decisions none the less.

Zealot by Reza Aslan. Unlike a certain Fox News host...

I will be highly surprised if Kimi ends up at Red Bull next year. I doubt that young Mr. Vettel wants that kind of competition from a team mate in similar equipment. And Lotus has shown they can run at the front, so why leave? But, I am frequently wrong. Good race overall, but Ferrari might as well start diverting resources to next year's car as I don't see a way forward for them given their current pace. Unless Grosjean can keep running fast and start running into Vettel on a regular basis.... Summer break now, then to my fave two races of the year - Spa and Monza.

Happy Birthday Antonio. I hope the day was awesome and I hope we get to meet you in person sometime down the road.

X5 We assembled our elliptical today. The assembly was the workout for today...

RIP Dennis Farina. One of my favorite movie lines of all time - from Midnight Run. You have to hear it in his voice: "You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fuckin' pencil. Do you understand me?"

I agree on the helmet For Steve. But I have to say nice purchase as Italian rides are the best. Al, Quadrophenia will be on play rotation for the next week thanks to you.

Proper facilities seem to be in order Mikey. Job well done. Drink on.