Still feeling cruddy

I see how that might be one root cause. To be accurate BTW the study mentioned above didn’t discuss sexual satisfaction generally but orgasm specifically.

I just told my landlord I’m moving.

Oh god this is really happening!

I hope the kitties like the arctic.

@occasional reader

I would suggest a grog (honey + strong alcool – traditionnaly rhum + some drops of lemon juice – not mandatory but who can really dislike lemon juice ?

That’s a new usage of grog for me; I’d call such a thing a toddy, and suggest whisky as the alcohol. Heat some water to boiling, dissolve honey in it, then pour in whisky and lemon to taste*. Brandy is also an excellent choice. I hold that grog properly refers to watered rum, but I’m something of a traditionalist in my booze.

@Paradoxy

I don’t know if it’s because it’s how they make it today or what but I don’t think I’ll be ordering again, and instead I’ll get their really yummy gyro pitas, which are the same price and I know I like those.

There’s a food cart a few blocks from here that makes a wonderful lamb gyro, usually 2 meals worth for me, for only $5. I keep meaning to try something else, but for whatever reason everything else costs more, and I know I like the gyro, so…

*Use in moderation. The drunkest I think I’ve ever been was when my girlfriend made me three or four of those for a terrible sore throat, that was bad enough I’d not eaten solid food in a week.

For listeners of Citizen Radio, Allison Kilkenny has just outed Jamie Kilstein as a serial abuser. As a fan of the show and of Jamie’s comedy, I am devastated. Sadly, it’s never a surprise when feminist, progressive cis men are revealed to be creeps. This time it was a very upsetting non-surprise, at least for me. 🙁

@IP OK I am genuinely shocked by that–it’s been a while since I listened to them, but they always sounded very close and happy.

@PI, others:
I like shawarma as well, though I often go for the falafel. There’s a place within two blocks of where I live that sells it. Granted, within a few blocks I can find multiple pizza places including some local specialists, a few places doing jerk chicken, a few low-end sports bars, and at least one churrasqueira. (I live in Toronto, in what an old roommate of mine used to call ‘the middle of a very interesting demographic slope’. I’ve got Little Italy to the south, Little Jamaica to the north, Portuguese mostly to the west, and a lot of old money to the east. I refer to it as ‘the part of town that used to be the suburbs a hundred years ago’.)

Toronto has a reasonably decent transit system for such a sprawled-out mess of a city. And a lot of the modern suburbs are taking transit seriously, trying to not repeat Toronto’s mistakes and instead get some of the work done before there’s too much traffic and gridlock to be able to do the work easily. York Region to the north has built dedicated bus lanes along a couple of the major thoroughfares through the region. Everybody’s moving to a single payment system of the ‘Presto’ card (which is the same basic technology as the ‘Oyster’ card in England).

It can still take me almost two hours to get to work, but that’s because it’s some 25km to go, and at least I have a netbook I can use to write stories on.

Well! I am now in possession of a new, fancy, two-inch long facial scar.

What I will tell people: I got it while wrangling a small Asiatic leopard.

What actually happened: Carisma didn’t want hug-tiems & scritchies in bed, and made a sudden leap for freedom, kicking my face with her hindleg and cats jump using their claws as launch-boosters.

In any case, OW.

@numerobis

Good luck with the move. Where abouts are you going? Arctic could be Canada, Norway, Russia..

I’m also doing a big move. Today I told my boss I’m going. I’m not sure I did it right.

mywall: there isn’t really a right way. The best you can hope for is that your boss answers yes to “would you hire this person again” for later references.

Skiriki: you’ve watched the sad cat diaries I hope? If not, google it. It appears your cat did not follow protocol, which is to bite the shit out of you — not to claw your face off.

I’m headed to Iqaluit. There’s apparently no shortage of work, but the response time is slow. I’ve got contracts to work through in the mean time.

Mammotheers: consider signing up for the White House mailing list so you can learn exactly the kind of bullshit the administration is pushing. Sometimes they send you links to surveys full of leading questions trying to get you to support Trump; I like to use them to slam him and everything he and his people are doing. It’s a small thing and doesn’t amount to much, but it makes me feel better – and the more discouragement Trump’s collaborators get, the better. The surveys do ask for your name, email address, state, and ZIP code, but you can easily put in fake ones.

@numerobis:

Carisma is such a rebel. She’d never follow any kind of protocol.

She also seemed to feel bad about having cut me/icky about having human blood on hind-paw and joined me in bathroom as I washed the cut. Didi was upset, overly dramatic and meow-demanded to know if I am going to die and if I am, who will give her kibble.

List of things that upset Didi:
* Sounds (sneezing, birds, kids in staircase, etc)
* Sights (things dropping, things wriggling, etc)
* Smells (her own poop, pee, human food, etc)
* Carisma
* Everything. Really everything. There’s no way to predict what will upset her, so assume everything.

Once she was convinced that I wasn’t going to die, she lost most of her interest and wandered away, still vaguely upset that this was happening, even if I wasn’t making a big production out of it in RL (when it happened, I just remarked aloud in calm voice “well that wasn’t nice”), just dabbing my cheek and occasionally tossing the wad of paper to toilet.

@Kat

Putting together facts like age + skin type + depth — it is likely to leave a faint stripe on my face for a couple of years, at least.

At least it looks fairly badass, and might net me +1 Intimidation bonus.

And small Asiatic leopards DO have an unfair advantage — five of their six ends are sharp and pointy and they have fur and I don’t.