foxxycat
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I wish you luck.
arouetta
, no, I don't think you're being paranoid. After that other incident I think you need to be very careful.
She actually hasn't heard about that yet. I'm not about to open that can of worms. She can find out when it becomes official and they send the notification out. No, she was just out and about all over the neighborhood, and kept stopping in at my house for water and company between other people.Um, what kind of a boondoggle,
HEY back atcha!
What's on Suzanne's mind? Is she upset about the new smoking rules?
Margret
Yep. And now you have two votes for pepper spray. It is legal, and you can use it at a bit more of a distance than you can a knife, AND more effectively than a knife unless you are really, really good with knives.
Shelves, outside of a closet or cabinet? And you're planning to store China there?
I am taking 5 to shelter November 21. I am in the process of moving them from a semi-secure outbuilding to the house for the next month+.I am considering getting a kitten.
I must be crazy.
If you are crazy, so am I. Some women get baby fever. I have never been one of them.I am considering getting a kitten.
I must be crazy.
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Nope. No babies here. Ever. 
Poor cat probably be tramatized by Honeybee chasing it around the house which is why I want a young cat or kitten...need a submissive female cat who likes to play. I dont want to wait too long as Honeybee is now 6. 
I never had baby fever either...yuck.
Now kittens that's another story.
I have been looking at various web sites with kittens and not sure I want to deal with a contract..so it would probably be a craigslist give away or word of mouth. Seems there's always someone who needs a home for a cat or kittens..
The latest is a 16 yr old female black cat...evidently a foster home fell through so now they are trying to rehome it...I kept my opinion to myself. 16 years old??!!
So rain down some kittens lol
I have a bookshelf in my bedroom that I cannot put anything on top of. When Sophie gets a bout of the zoomies, it's usually where she ends up. Anything on top of that bookshelf gets pushed onto the floor. I have a stereo cabinet right next to it that she likes to climb into from the back. Here she is in the cabinet. I had to open the glass door to get this. She was not thrilled that I found her hiding place
Those half closed eyes like she's saying.... Get out! It's mine!I have a bookshelf in my bedroom that I cannot put anything on top of. When Sophie gets a bout of the zoomies, it's usually where she ends up. Anything on top of that bookshelf gets pushed onto the floor. I have a stereo cabinet right next to it that she likes to climb into from the back. Here she is in the cabinet. I had to open the glass door to get this. She was not thrilled that I found her hiding place
arouetta
, no, you did not do the wrong thing, and you did not get a kid beaten.
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No. You did NOT get a kid beaten today. This was NOT your fault. You did everything right. Bless you for caring about this little girl.I got a kid beaten today.
I was putting away returned items in the baby and toddler clothes, way in the back, and as usual there's little kids running around. A little girl, I'm thinking 6 or maybe 7, just looks at me. Where she was at, she'd be difficult to spot, so I looked at the young mother with kids that age on the other side of the clothing bar and said "You're kid's over here." She said "That's not my kid." Oh. I looked around, there was another young mother close by, so I called out to her "Ma'am, is this your kid?" She said no. I looked at the kid and asked "Are you lost?" and she said "Yes." All that went through my mind was "Fuuuuuuu----."
My first impulse was to call the manager on duty or Security and drop her in their laps. It's not what we call a Code Yellow, a missing kid scenario, because I have the kid, the kid is safe, I'm just missing the parent. But I realized that passing her off would make me feel better but would scare her even more. She's lost her mom, kid logic says that mom may be lost forever, she's scared and I need her to feel confident that this is just a little hiccup and she'll be back with mom really quickly. So I have to keep this low-key and I have to make her think that I've got this handled. Any appearance of not knowing what to do is going to make her feel even more scared.
So plan B is to take her to Guest Services. If her mom flags down another team member, it'll turn into a Code Yellow and the mother will be taken to the front of the store, which is exactly where I'll have the kid at. And if her mother doesn't flag someone down, she can be paged to Guest Services to meet her kid. As we were walking, I called out to every woman I saw "Is this your kid?" The white woman looked at me like I was crazy as the little girl is black, but hey, adoptions and step-parents. Woman #5 said "No, but I think she's over there." And right then woman #6 walks out of the boys' clothing and the kid said that was her mommy.
The woman grabbed her arm and started hauling her off at a pace where the girl was running to keep up. She yelled "You're going home right now!" as the girl was screaming "No mommy!" I wanted to say something to the mother that would deescalate things, but what could I say? "Your kid is so sweet and quiet it's likely you left her behind rather than her leaving you." No, that's not going to help. I walked back into baby and toddlers clothing and then the girl's crying shot up in volume and I heard the sound of someone hitting someone else very hard, repeatedly.
If I had followed my first impulse and had somehow gotten the manager or Security there, the mother would likely not have hit her in front of authority figures. And then by the time she got her outside alone, she might have calmed down enough to not hit the girl at all. I think by the rule book I did the correct thing, but it feels like ethically I did the wrong thing since the girl got hit.
you might want to use some museum putty, to avoid your Blue Willow pieces getting knocked over accidentally. i use museum putty a lot here, otherwise the girls would have many things on the floor and likely damaged/broken.
micknsnicks2mom
, where would I find museum putty (besides a museum, of course)?, I've found some real treasures. These include DOS and Windows 3.1 installation and rescue disks (which means I can probably make some alternate boot DVDs for my laptop, to run old programs that Windows 7 has problems with), archives from one of the BBSes I used to frequent, and, most importantly, a disk of songs written by a filker named Jan Kelson, who died in 2010. (Filk music - Wikipedia) Jan wrote some wonderful songs, and unlike most filkers she very seldom wrote parodies; she tended to write her own music. I had met her in 1990 and visited her in her apartment one evening. I had an excellent little tape recorder at the time and I recorded the entire evening, and Jan gave me a floppy disk of songs she had written. It included a directory that she erased before giving me the disk, because it included songs she wasn't ready to release yet, and I did something very unethical -- I un-erased the it. (For those who don't know about this, while there are ways to erase a disk securely, a basic erase just removes pointers to the directory. If you can get at it before you've put more data on the disk it's very simple to restore.) Since Jan's death, this has become rather valuable, and I no longer feel guilty about illicitly saving those files. I haven't looked at the disk yet, but I'm hoping that it includes music as well as lyrics. I know the tapes do, possibly containing music for some of the songs she never published that were found after her death. I need to either take the tapes to a professional to be put in digital format or get my other laptop in good enough shape that I can use it for the job (it has the correct input jack, which the better laptop is missing).
Margret
, i buy quake hold (museum putty) via amazon. if you've never used it, a little bit does a lot of holding in place. the package i bought months ago still has about 3/4's of it left. you just work it between your fingers to soften it, then apply to bottom of item you want to hold securely in place (and make sure that the surface you're wanting to stick to is clean, dust free). i like to press the item firmly into place while kind of twisting it on the surface -- to squish the putty. i've got it securing many things, like the phone to my computer desk, the base and speakers for the computer to the desk, and my desktop computer and the external monitor to the computer desks. 
