Cosi, as I've named the eartipped tabical, who was trapped in Corvallis and taken to Heartland. She is now here and I hope I have a barn home lined up north of Salem, for her, and perhaps also for Cami and Spirit.
E St. Female kitten, fixed yesterday.
E St. gray tabby tux male kitten, dazed and confused, still under the anesthesia influence when photo was taken.
Here's the second male kitten, fixed yesterday. Both boys need homes.I took in three more kittens from E street to be fixed yesterday. My one photo of one of the two boys did not come out well. Both boys are seeking homes. The little girl is spoken for.
The barn home did come through. Cami, Spirit and Cosi will be going on Saturday. It's a very good opportunity for the three, nice people, great area for cats, lots of nice cozy sleeping places and room for containment they can stay in a couple weeks. So, this is it for them, the best chance possible. This is a good thing and I am happy about it.
When I first heard from this woman, I was going to send three from the 34th street Baptist colony, but then I thought to myself, "I need to take care of me, for a change." So this opportunity will go to cats here.
Cami is ok here, but not happy. She wants her freedom. Cosi is still scared to death, occupying a rabbit hutch in the living room, overwhelmed by all that has happened to her in the last week. Spirit will do fine anywhere. She's a beautiful cat. Since she is long hair, I will give her a trim tomorrow, before she leaves, to last for the summer. I will update all three on worming and flea treatment, too.
My mouse quit working. It's an optic wireless mouse. I don't know why it quit. It's not the battery and it's practically brand new.
Just as suddenly, the computer refused to upload photos from the SD card port. I don't know about how well built computers are these days. I have to think "not very".
I am still contemplating returning to the old one, which sits here on the desk still, most of my old files still on it. I am using it as a lamp stand. The old tower makes a terrific lamp stand, I think. But I might turn the new computer tower into a lamp stand and re-enlist the old guard tower. Sure, it used to crash a few times per week at the end, but my memories are so warm and fond, of its file stashing organizational scheme.
I now can only dream of stashing and retrieving files with such ease and of making beautiful rescued cat fliers with phone tear offs using Publisher.
The old Publisher program on that computer is the best for making fliers. I've struggled horrifically on this Vista computer. It's a daily battle to get what I need from it. I hate Vista. If a person were mainly surfing the web, it would be fine.
But I don't surf the web. I haven't done so since about a month after I learned how to use a computer, back in 2001, at the public library. I don't have time.
I love this house but I got smothered here in Albany. Smothered in unwanted lovely cats. They're everywhere in this area. I need to get out or I will be further smothered. I do not have a single local supporter, outside of Diane in Corvallis. My letter to the editor, detailing the number of cats I took in last year and the need for donations to continue, resulted in not even one teensy donation from Linn County being sent to Poppa.
This was discouraging to me far more than just the fact no money for fixing resulted. It felt like a grinning conspiracy from Linn County residents. I could almost see some guy chuckling with his buddies over it, them joking about getting all my labor for free and laughing over a dumbshit who is so stupid to believe in the goodness of people to donate out of fairness and to work for nothing in the first place. I guess maybe that's how I feel here, that I'm getting laughed at constantly, for helping cats and putting out so much of my own time, money to do it.
I get to feeling sucked on, like the body onto which is attached one giant leech. I don't know if I would have a better life elsewhere. Couldn't be worse probably, except I have a great house to live in here.
But the house is filled with too many cats and if I remain here, I fear it will only get worse and fill with more cats. I think about if I broke a bone or got cancer, anything serious, what in the world would I do? I don't have anyone to help out with the cats or anything else here. Even if my car broke down, what would I do?
So I'm thinking I better get on top of this soon, finding somewhere else to live, where I might have a chance at making friends or finding others interested in the same things. I don't want to live my life so alone. I love this house, but I want to have some friends and companionship. It's more important to me than living in a nice house. I need some community!
I went to return the Pink House male. All of the cats come running to greet me, including the female spayed last week who spent five days here. But she looked horrible even from a distance. I called her to me and to my horror, the conjunctiva of her right upper eye, is swollen out so much that it is drooping down to cover most of her eye. I can't raise the Pink House woman by knocking, so I just put the cat in a trap and go right to the vet with her. I had her tested. She is negative.
The vet then gave her a prednisone injection to reduce that inflammation and she needs to be on antibiotics for ten days, the vet said. I stopped by the Pink House again and still could not raise the lady, so I brought the cat home. The Pink House woman would never cease her beer drinking for ten days anyhow, to be sober enough to care for a very sick cat.
It is disgusting that I just spent all that money on a cat she owns, but I did so. My choice. I couldn't just leave her there like that and her owner is as negligant as they come.
little mr. "dazed and xconfused" looks high as a kite....lucky little thing!!! just kidding....
ReplyDeleteI don't know how you do it. Albany sucks. What an awful place inhabited by awful people. I would never set foot there except to rescue you, which I wish I could do but can't yet. Will send another donation asap. K
ReplyDeleteThere is a way to fix the port - I forget exactly how just now (I only just walked in the door from work so my mind is fried, lol but I know I fixed one of mine that did that, an SD-Ram drive that simply refused to read cards. Is that your problem?
ReplyDeleteAn alternative is to get a card reader - ad I did that and screwed up the others(I had been given an SD-HC g gigsabyte one so had to obtain a card reader that would read it plus 99% of every other card) but the down side was that it once again decided , it being the drive, not to read anything but that reader! So now I just leave the freakin' thing there.
However, there IS a way - many steps but now complicated, just maybe a half hr of time, to adjust the drive so that it once again reads your cards.
Did you check to ensure the drive is working properly. ie God to the drive (I am assuming you have XP or Vista)
Click Accesories, usually the first thing you see under Start and Programs though sometimes computer companies hide it in different places.
Click System Tools and then under that tab, click System Information.
This will bring up a Box or else a long list of devices on your comuter. Sometimes, certain brands like Compaq or Delll will have customised this for their own computers, more for marketing purposes than for any help to the consumer (imho!). Of course, what do I know- I do not doctor computers, I help kids, lol - many of who know more about this stuff than I do. I expect any day for some gruff uninspired and angry looking security guy to pop in and express in some whiny bordering on nasty tone that one of "my kids" has broken into the Pentagon or some other place they should not be, (I already had two eight yr olds girls break into a server at the University of Saskatchewan but like me, the Network Adnistrator was so impressed wth their talent at that age that he forgave all and sent them gifts, haha- I had to promise they would not do it again though but that seemed like ounihsing initaive, lol)
Anyway, I digress.
Ok, Click the part that says Trouble shoot a problem if you have Compaq or Dell. If you have another type of computer, you will have to find a way to open Device manager.
In that case, you go to any Explorer window (not the browser, the thing we used to call My Computer - that's hat I tell the kids whi are not into computers and other docs anyway, lol). Or just go to Control Panel which you should be able to find on the Start button. A lot of help ppl prefer the old Panel ( I can see why , it works much better - leave it to MS to screw something up). But anyway, once it is open (and I am sorry for the editorial commentry here).
Next, select System or Hardware Tab (again, depends on computer)and then Device Manager. Sometimes, you can just type in Device Mnager in the help section and click on it and it will bring you right there and you can skip all these pesky steps but that does not work on every computer. It does in the cheapest ones and I think there is a moral to that story somewhere, lol On the Hardware Tab - whether it was right in the Control Panel or whether you had to open System Properties first (you can also dothis by right clicking on any Explorer point- not the browser but what we used to call My Computer, lol)
Then Click (tada!) Device Manager!
Under whatever you called your disk drive, there will be a place on Device Drivers called Disk Drives. Click that and you should see all the disk drives (some have SD Ram and Flash drive nd Generic USB, etc) on you computer - check to see if they are working, ie,if you click on Gebera, it wil tell you if the device in question is working properly. If not, there is a troubleshoot guide that helps you figure out the problem.
BEFORE you DO ANYTHING at all, make sure you create a point in System Restore (also under Accesories) so that you can return to that point if something happens while you are working n it and you want to return to the computer you know and well, love, lol
The Troubleshoot section will give you many options to choose from - your cdevice could be conflicting ith another device on your comuter for example. Think of it as a kitty who has to cope with a new sister and she has always been the Diva. Now it needs to learn to work with other kitties and play nice with them.
IF you have a brand name computer with its own thing (tho I still use the basic one- those things are often user friendly but I am used to designing our hospial web sites with Notepad for example so I loathe ll hese fancy shamacy HTML editors, unless they come with built in scripts so I do not have o reinvent the wheel, lol)
On the new one- tho this actually can work on any XP really, Open My Computer, and then select the local disk you want to check.
On the File menu, click Properties.
On the Tools tab, under Error-checking, click Check Now.
Under Check disk options, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box.
Ohhhhhhhhh, for this to work, close every program on your computer (I have a bad habit of not doing this myself so I should remember that, lol)
I hope this helps. Let me know how you make out - I wish I was less tired. I would make more sense.
Good luck and thank so much for all the great work you do!
Shalom and Hugs from me and my meezers!And pls do not judge me by my spelling - it is atriocious, sigh - I promise one day to learn to type, lol
Siobhan