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The verdict: Feline acne. Loki had a milder case (but had tapeworms, so he got treated for that, too); Lamia's had been scratched open and abscessed (note: slightly gross description follows). Despite opening it up and draining it herself on Thursday, the vet lanced it and, from K's description, the better part of a tablespoon of blood and ECF was released; when the vet himself is surprised, that's not a good sign. He also was taken aback at how antagonistic she is to the idea of taking pills, so we've got liquid medicine to give them (except for Loki's tapeworm follow-up, which is a one-shot deal with two pills).

However, that done, both of them got an antibiotic (and Lamia also got a cortizone shot to quell the itching that caused the overgrooming). We get to be purveyors of doom and annoyance in the form of a milliliter of banana-flavored antibiotic yuck twice a day for a while. Immediate returns are good - Lamia's been much more social (she'd been hunkered down in discomfort all week). Our littlest girl, Willow (Will o' Wisp), seems to be going through a growth spurt, and is all youthful exuberance, gangly and spastic... kind of like frith_lord. ;-)

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Yesterday was a long day of driving sandwitched around a pleasant couple of hours with K's brother's family (his wife, The Neice, and the in-laws). My back's annoyed.

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My office is mid-demolition (pictures of the denuded desk and the huge pile of crap that had previously buried it have been taken). Holy crap. Like... dude. mighty_man's old basement type levels of crap accumulation. It did, however, fall well short of House In Arlington levels of kipple encumbrance. Thank god.

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Before I do any gaming today, a run to Target for a storage armoire, and to Best Buy for the DVI or VGA adapter for my 360 (at my buddy Jeeves' recommendation), and an honest attempt to hang some ideas together for NI90.

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How about those league-leading Buffalo Sabres, eh? That's what I'm talkin' about.

Comments

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Office: Put your accumulation to scale. How long have you lived in Tampa? How many years of accumulation did dad have down there? I think if you chart accumulation vs. time, you've accumulated more crap =8-) And for the record, I think I've done a pretty decent job of containing the crap and accumulation here.

Sabres: Not only are they leading the league in points, but in wins, goals for and best road record.

Xbox 360: You didn't have a DVI connection for it yet? For shame! The bad news: xbox 360 v2 is going to have HDMI and a much larger HDD. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5591

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I've been doing some research, and I don't see that it even has a DVI output - http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/xbox360/highdefdetails.htm

By my reckoning, then, I don't need to make the change. I've got the HDTV component output (Yppbpbpbltlttttt or whatever it is); that's the only one that supports 1080p from what I can see.

Lessee... two and a half years, looks like about twenty-five pounds of desk kipple. Call it ten pounds a year, maybe a pound a month at the outside. Very little of it is actual disposable crap - it's just stuff that failed to get put away or otherwise filed appropriately (lots and lots of CD media, a small pile of pens and hand tools, a moderate nest of cables of varying descriptions).

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Sorry, my bad. The DVI connector was a Lik-Sang product (which MS drove out of business). For now, it's composite, component or VGA. And yeah, the connector is 2 audio, 1 composite video, 3 component video. I think the VGA one will support 1080i as well.

[micahra.livejournal.com]

My kitty had acne on her chin once as well, the vet suggested using stainless steel food and water bowls. Something about the plastic ones... &shrug*

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Our vet said the same, so they're on today's shopping agenda as well.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Kitty sympathy here. I can't count the number of abscesses I've dealt with over the years. I had one vet show me how to deal with them myself. He was just moving into his office when I ran into my first one. Poor Patrick had a HUGE hole in the side of his leg and I was petrified. The vet just cleared a space and dug around in his boxes until he found what he needed. When I didn't pass out (I was 17 - my 25 year old sister nearly did pass out ;-) watching, he had me help (no staff yet, just him unpacking) he taught me what I needed to know to handle most of them. Over the years I haven't always had the money for a random vet visit, so this has been well-used. Even strays have been most accepting of being treated, even when they didn't generally trust people. :-)

On the kitty bowls, yeah, I did a little research after your initial post. Bacteria can grow in the plastic. If you ever need to use plastic for whatever reason, I bet putting it through the dishwasher on a regular basis will help to control it. I've been using some of those spongy 'paper' plates of late. I have no idea where they came from, but they're pretty useless since they just melt in the microwave (what I use paper plates for most). So, they're kitty dishes until I use them up. I toss 'em after a week or two.

[kungfugimp.livejournal.com]

Yep, will also say that is a factor for kitty chin irritation. I have metal dishes and regular plates that we wash on a regular basis. I can see why they can get acne there, not having thumbs to eat with. I also have one of those kitty water fountains, but Ralph always prefers it right from the tap. While being petted. At the same time.