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clevermanka) wrote2009-10-02 10:57 am
clevermanka) wrote2009-10-02 10:57 am
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The vet gave a thumbs-up after checking Fetish's blood glucose this morning. He said I should take her down to one unit of insulin once a day. Hurray! She's getting better about eating more, too. She ate almost two-thirds of the three-ounce can of food this morning at breakfast.
Would you believe Hancock Fabrics was completely out of black panne velvet? And they have none on order. Hello, it's Halloween month! They should have multiple bolts of that stuff right now. It won't be back in stock before my coupon expires. Rats. I made a choli out of the copper panne, though, and got another cut of the gold, so I should be okay. I really would like to wear the green costume again this year, though, and that's not gonna happen without a black choli. *sigh*
I had some unpleasantness after eating lunch yesterday and had to leave work. The Cipro is losing its effectiveness on everything, it seems. Not only has it not helped the bloating at all (which it did last time), now it's failing to help me with basic digestion. Good times. Dear god, that October 7 acupuncture appointment cannot arrive soon enough.
Honestly, 5:00 p.m. this evening cannot arrive soon either, either.
UPDATE: If you love Carl Sagan like I love Carl Sagan (which is unlikely, but...) you need to check out this article and video, heads-up courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_starlady_. Sagan's Auto-Tune voice sounds slightly Kermit-the-Froggish at times, but the overall effect is beautiful enough to outweigh the slight cognitive dissonance. I am archiving the lyrics here:
A Glorious Dawn
[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time
[chorus]
The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature
I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky
But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, analyzes
it generates abstractions
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world
[chorus]
[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit
From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas
[Sagan]
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
[chorus]
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
EDIT of UPDATE: You can download the song from this website. You can also send some money to the guy who did the music and video remix. I shot him five bucks. So worth it!
Would you believe Hancock Fabrics was completely out of black panne velvet? And they have none on order. Hello, it's Halloween month! They should have multiple bolts of that stuff right now. It won't be back in stock before my coupon expires. Rats. I made a choli out of the copper panne, though, and got another cut of the gold, so I should be okay. I really would like to wear the green costume again this year, though, and that's not gonna happen without a black choli. *sigh*
I had some unpleasantness after eating lunch yesterday and had to leave work. The Cipro is losing its effectiveness on everything, it seems. Not only has it not helped the bloating at all (which it did last time), now it's failing to help me with basic digestion. Good times. Dear god, that October 7 acupuncture appointment cannot arrive soon enough.
Honestly, 5:00 p.m. this evening cannot arrive soon either, either.
UPDATE: If you love Carl Sagan like I love Carl Sagan (which is unlikely, but...) you need to check out this article and video, heads-up courtesy of
_starlady_. Sagan's Auto-Tune voice sounds slightly Kermit-the-Froggish at times, but the overall effect is beautiful enough to outweigh the slight cognitive dissonance. I am archiving the lyrics here:A Glorious Dawn
[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time
[chorus]
The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature
I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky
But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, analyzes
it generates abstractions
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world
[chorus]
[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit
From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas
[Sagan]
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
[chorus]
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
EDIT of UPDATE: You can download the song from this website. You can also send some money to the guy who did the music and video remix. I shot him five bucks. So worth it!
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Yay for Fetish being better.
Boo for Cipro fail.
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Tell me about it. Gah!
They did have a lovely dark green. I thought of you.
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Free ambient music inspired by Sagan
http://www.archive.org/details/earman091
See Beyond This Pale Blue Dot:
http://www.archive.org/details/PaleBlueDot_779
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http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=carl+sagan+cosmos&emb=0#
Google Video just rocked my universe.
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Yay for Fetish! And you are such a wonderful cat mom!
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We know what it is. Small bowel bacterial overgrowth (https://www.google.com/health/ref/Small+bowel+bacterial+overgrowth) with a possible side order of Fructose Malabsorption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose_malabsorption). We just don't know how to get rid of it. Hence, the acupuncture appointment for next week. If modern medicine doesn't work, on to non-western/traditional methods.
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But thank you! Yes, I'm very relieved that one of us is responding well to our treatment. =D
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