My Snowshoeing Adventure

Allrighty then. This post is a follow-up to the post I made a few weeks back about my snowshoeing (mis)adventure. I am going back to the same place again to snowshoe on the same trail again—They have sick amounts of snow up there, now. So, If I don’t post back here later tonight with the story of my fun, successful trip, then something bad has befallen me again. Wish me luck!

A Big Day For A Little Kitty

Roswell went to the vet yesterday to have her teeth cleaned and two teeth removed (her two top front canines). I was worried about her all day afraid something might happen to her. We picked her up around 7:00PM—Mom drove and paid for the vet bill as I am unemployed—and took her home. She was loopy when I first saw her and as I was talking to her she seemed somewhat incoherent and confused. We got her back to the house and I set her down on her favorite sleeping pad. She chilled for a while and then tried walking around; She was definitely NOT steady on her feet.

She got a little wet food which was puked up within ten minutes. She puked some more a little while later and then settled in for a snooze right next to the space heater in the sun-room on the back of the house. Every so often she would come out to the living room and I would pet her and then she would go lie down again. I gave her some more wet food which she kept down and then she wanted to go to bed for the night. At first I couldn’t figure out why she kept “walking me” to my room but then I realized she wanted to go to sleep for the night. So, I grabbed a book and got into bed and gave her lots of lovies and scratchies until she fell asleep.

 

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So far this morning she has had her medicine—scratching me and my Mom in the process—and some more wet food. She seems still to be a bit wobbly but otherwise her mobility is OK if a tad slow. She’s probably going to sleep more than usual today. But it is nice and sunny in the sun-room and with the space heater turned up to “Hi” she should be in kitty heaven. I’ll take some pictures later so you can see her without her two front teeth.

Obama Calls DC Residents Snow Wimps

OK, so he didn’t actually use the word wimp but he did express bemusement that his children had a snow day over some icy conditions. Coming from Chicago, where they never close schools except for super-extreme bad weather, I can understand his response. Perhaps he might just bring some sensible midwestern hardiness to the soft denizens of Washington, DC. As a child from the snowy parts of upstate New York and a former 14-year resident of Washington, DC, I say, “Right on!”

Although, to be fair, the problems with snow in the DC metropolitan area have more to do with the infrequency of snow and hence the various municipalities inability to know how to properly deal with it. My guess is DC could takes notes from NYC when they get heavy snow: Garbage trucks get fitted with plows and salt-spreaders and spend their days clearing streets, not picking up trash. That would seem to be one easy solution to dealing with some of DC’s snow problems. (Of course, “easy” solutions in DC somehow wind up being unnecessarily complex.)

Obama: Snowy Washington Needs Some ‘Chicago Toughness’

Number of Countries You Can Name in Five Minutes

I got a respectable 61 but I blanked out in the last 30 seconds or so. Although,for some reason, Lithuania, Latvia, and Egypt did NOT register for me.

How Many Countries I Could Name in Five Minutes

The countries I got right are listed below. They’re all over the map, literally.
I missed a handful of countries that I have visited (Cezh Republic, Germany, Italy and Netherlands). Of the countries I got correct, the ones I have visited have been bolded.

AFGHANISTAN, ARGENTINA, BANGLADESH, BELGIUM, BELIZE, BHUTAN, BRAZIL, CAMBODIA, CANADA, CHAD, CHINA, DENMARK, ECUADOR, EGYPT, FINLAND, FRANCE, ICELAND, INDIA, IRAN, IRAQ, IRELAND, ISRAEL, JAPAN, KENYA, LATVIA, LEBANON, LIBYA, LITHUANIA, LUXEMBOURG, MADAGASCAR, MEXICO, MONACO, MONGOLIA, MOROCCO, MOZAMBIQUE, MYANMAR, NEPAL, NICARAGUA, NIGER, NIGERIA, NORTH KOREA, NORWAY, PAKISTAN, PERU, POLAND, PORTUGAL, RUSSIA, SENEGAL, SLOVAKIA, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH KOREA, SPAIN, SWEDEN, TAJIKISTAN, TANZANIA, THAILAND, TUNISIA, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES, URUGUAY, VIETNAM

 

The countries that I missed are listed below. The ones that I have visited but did not get are bolded.

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Montenegro, Namibia, Nauru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, [Scotland was not in their list], Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Switzerland, Syria, East Timor, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad , Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Abkhazia, Taiwan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Northern Cyprus, Pridnestrovie, Somaliland, South Ossetia, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Mayotte, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Clipperton Island, Bouvet Island, Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Anguilla, Bermuda, Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, South Georgia, Turks and Caicos Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, U.S. Virgin Islands, Wake Island, Hong Kong, Macau, Faroe Islands, Greenland, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion, Aland, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, Svalbard, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, Antarctica, Kosovo, Palestine, Western Sahara, Australian Antarctic Territory, Ross Dependency, Peter I Island, Queen Maud Land, British Antarctic Territory

Work, Work, Work, Work, Work

So, I was looking on Craigslist for some part-time work in the Syracuse area until I could get a full-time gig back in the City or elsewhere in New England. Looking at the number and variety of IT jobs available in Syracuse got me to thinking about checking out the Craigslist job scene in NYC and WDC. After almost two hours of on-line submissions I managed to apply for three jobs in Washington, DC and two jobs in New York City.

It’s not much but it is a start and it will get me out of my Mom’s house and back on my own sooner rather than later.