Well anyhow....

I'm still chipping away at today's goals. Neck is on fire, makes it a little tougher. I just got removed from the Costco account. The people who put me on their account a couple years back, as a courtesy for helping them with a lot of cat issues, just called to ask if it was ok if they didn't renew it for me. I can understand that. Money is tight for so many people.

I don't know how that will work with my glasses I got there, that keep breaking. They're not the greatest frames. In fact, I've had better luck with dollar store frames that seem to be built far more durably. I'll have to find out what not being a member means for that.

And I was saving to buy tires there. The service is best there and I'm sure they would honor a warranty there. I had such a horrible experience with the tires I got at Les Schwab, and when they went bald 20,000 miles short of warranty, they not only did not honor the warranty but were just evil and nasty to me. I've never been back to Les Schwab since and never will go back. So I don't know where the next best place, other than Costco, to get tires would be, somewhere they will have good customer service and honor their own agreements. Any suggestions?

I do get all my dry cat food at Costco, but hopefully I can find someone with a Costco membership with whom I can go to Costco with, when I need to get cat food. Any local people out there who have a Costco membership?

I cleaned out the newest latest kitten arrivals ears this morning. They all have serious earmite infestations. I've had colds going around here, a bizarre virus, that causes extreme sneezing and congestion but no real drainage and no eye drainage. I've never seen the like. It doesn't last long either, at most, about three or four days. But it's been hitting cat after cat, one or two at a time.

Shady, who has a chronic herpes infection, has it the worst and is having a hard time shaking it. But in a way, it's brought us closer because I've had to confine her twice daily for steam treatments and antibiotics, which is hard with her, because she hates it. But she's also enjoying being petted and brushed and made over. So in a way, it was a blessing.

I got some more anti viral drops at the compounding pharmacy. Boy are they expensive! For a tiny little bottle---.1% idoxuridine--$38! For 15 ml's of 99.9999999% water, that's a lot of money. I'd love to figure out how to make that myself, if I can get my hands on the active ingredient. It is very effective in treating the eyes of herpes infected cats, however.

I haven't heard from the woman again, who was going to take in the Calico Triangles calico as a barn cat. Last night, she was trying to play through the mesh of the containment cage with the other cats, so I opened it and let her out. She explored awhile, but this morning, was back in the open cage, sleeping alongside Doc and Buffy, who had decided they like being in there, too. Cats are funny! She's a sweetheart, loves it here. They all do.

I"ve had big time phone problems here too. I just got told, when a woman called me, that the line always says it's busy. I know. The line is bad and so is my phone and the answering machine. Sam peed in the answering machine is why it doesn't really work. I can't stop it anymore and the messages are so muffled I can barely understand them and sometimes I can't. Lately, when the phone rings, I pick up the phone and try to answer but nobody can hear me. There has been extreme crackling on the line, too. It's been so bad I've been unable to return most phone calls. And for some reason, if I dial a number, that isn't necessarily the number that is connected. So I don't know what is up with that. I need to address this issues, however.