blortch, yardwork, computer guy<\/p>\n
When Thunder(cat) got home from the vet – missing a tooth and acting groggy – I tried to go easy on him food-wise. He was hungry, though, since he hadn’t eaten since the night before and Jim brought over some canned cat food so I could stay home and watch the feline.<\/p>\n
Thunder(cat) went after that wet seafood in his bowl like it was nip. Or so I imagine – this is a nip-free house.<\/p>\n
He ate about half of a small can and then – while I was unfortunately watching – threw most of it back up right into the bowl. The sound it made was:<\/p>\n
“blortch” Or perhaps more like:<\/p>\n
“bloorrtch”<\/p>\n
It was so gross I actually laughed out loud. Which may not have been the right reaction, though Thunder(cat) didn’t seem to care. I cleaned up the bowl and took the food away for a while. He finished it up the next day and after some astonishing and revolting poop, he’s back on dry food and pretty much back to normal. \u00a0Though I think the bonding time we had while he was drugged up has had a lasting impact – he’s much more tolerant of me in general.
\n—————<\/p>\n
I’ve been out doing yardwork whenever the weather is even remotely nice. I’m mostly just doing some clean-up and enjoying the sunshine. I’ve got some vague plans for the yard, but nothing really serious.<\/p>\n
While I was out there mowing the front yard, my neighbor from across the street came over. I hadn’t met him yet and we talked briefly about the new mailman getting deliveries wrong and the yard work we were doing. He asked what I did and when I said I was a computer guy, his whole face lit up.<\/p>\n
And my heart sank.<\/p>\n
But, because I’m a nice guy, I agreed to save his favorites and format his computer, and re-install windows from a back-up. I worked on that one evening this week and while it wasn’t complicated it did take for-freaking-ever to re-install. 3 hours or so. Which is forever, incidentally. I had him come back over and we did some clean-up on all the crap the backup had re-installed. We talked a little bit about computers and his 3 ex-wives and then I sent him on his way to check his internet. I didn’t hear back from him, so I’m guessing that went okay as well.<\/p>\n
I don’t think we’re bros at this point – a little too weird in a non-amusing way – but at least I know another one of my neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
blortch, yardwork, computer guy When Thunder(cat) got home from the vet – missing a tooth and acting groggy – I tried to go easy on him food-wise. He was hungry, though, since he hadn’t eaten since the night before and Jim brought over some canned cat food so I could stay home and watch the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}