After much worry, Stolichnaya returns from the vet. As Wrangled:
We picked him up this morning. The vet said that he’s still hasn’t eaten but that he probably just didn’t feel like it because he was in such a strange environment (i.e., in a cage surrounded by a bunch of other caged, sick cats). “He pulled out his IV during the night,” she continued, “and that’s usually a good sign.” Once we got him home and tried to give him his medicine, I could see why. He struggled; piss and vinegar, indeed.
Since then he’s re-emerged from the couch and nearly thwarted us on his second round of medicine. He turned down some catnip (highly strange) and still has not eaten (that we can tell) but he is using his litter box again. That much is encouraging, at least. Now he’s chillin’ on my side of the bed. Smug little bastard.
UPDATE: He seems to be picking at his food this morning. That’s certainly the biggest mark of improvement yet.
Personal goals for 2007: doing pretty well last quarter; let’s see where we are now:
- Write approx. 80,000 new words of fiction. This is updated from “write another 80,000 word draft of my novel”. Good news, re-writing the goal helped me get motivated. As if to say “all of my writing counts”. Bad news, I’m still about 48% of the target pace:
- Run or walk at least 10 miles every week. Though we were a little behind in the winter (i.e., not walking to work in 0 degree temps, thanks) we’re ahead of pace here in the spring:
…at 233.19 miles total walked/ran thus far.
- Hike 10 new trails/mountains in 2007. No new progress. Hopefully notch one today and add it on…
- Mix at least 1 hour every week. Erm… My gig in April helped skew the average in my favor but overall this has not worked out to be a reality:
- Read 12 new books this year. Let us enumerate them: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, three Dashiell Hammett mysteries (which we’ll count as one), Magic for Beginners, The Postman, Siddhartha & Demian, The No Asshole Rule, Blindsight, Old Man’s War, Invisible Cities, River of Goods, Oryx & Crake (which I had been convinced that I had previously read but upon reading discovered I had not), A Dirty Job, Year’s Best Science Fiction (17th edition), Cat’s Eye, and two Raymond Chandler mysteries (which we’ll count as one). My graph looks like this:
- Master CSS. Uh… Still don’t know how to quantify that one. I feel pretty comfortable saying I’ve reasonably accomplished this. A satisfactory mastery, if you will.
