Absorbine_Sr

Summer break is over and the next two races are my favorite of the year. Spa #1 and Monza #2. Let's see if Ferrari can pull its thumb out.

Second set was as good, if not better than, the first. Blue Sky, a stellar Dreams and an awesome cover of Into the Mystic. All in all a great show. I think what most amazed me wasn't the crushing guitar work - I expected that. It was Greg Allman's voice. With all of the health problems he has had over the last few years, I expected his range to be restricted as many older singers are. Instead, he sounded like it was At The Fillmore East all over again. Several times during the show I looked at Debbie in astonishment at how strong he sounded. But, as great of a show as it was, it was partially ruined by inconsiderate cunts (TM Voltron Enterprises). After having two guys behind us talk through the first 5 songs loud enough that they were competing with the guitars, I turned around and asked them if they would be talking through every song and if so, why they paid what they did for their tickets. They apologized and shut up. Two songs later, the woman sitting next to Debbie sees someone she knows and now it's family-fucking-reunion time. For two songs they talk and partially block Debbie's view. Finally Debbie had had enough and told them "We came to listen to the band, not you two talk!" They stopped. And then her and her date/husband/pimp/whatever moved a seat over to separate themselves from us. I told Debbie we should have moved right back next to them. Assholes. This has happened to us at the last few bigger venue shows we've gone to and it is making me question whether I will attend any more of these bigger shows. But in the end, the band was awesome and we came away loving the show. And tomorrow I'll have flac files that will have no talking audible.

They are doing it. An astounding "Jessica" to close the first set. "Stormy Monday" was really good too. Both Derek and Warren have been on fire tonight. And I love the fact I can download the show on flac tomorrow.

At the Chicago Theater to see The Allman Brothers. I am stoked.

Happy Birthday!! Again!

Happy Birthday!!

So, after a week of safe room confinement, Gumballhead seemed ready to try the whole house again. She seemed pretty happy, hanging with us part of the time and under the bed or back in the safe room part of the time. But she is not low walking, has been running and playful, and also hanging out in the windows checking out her domain. So pretty good so far. Debbie took this earlier.

Gumby is a noisy cat too. Right now I like that. But ask me again in a month or two...

Since going back to the safe room method, she is now eating anything and everything we put in front of her. Even dry food. So again, human error seems to be at the root of her problems. We are taking our sweet time with her now and she is a much happier feline. Matter of fact, here she is:

Happy Birthday!!

Still in the safe room and last night she finally ate wet cat food. And a fair amount of it too. Progress!

I'd still be interested and suspect others would as well.

Is any of this being recorded? Would love to hear it.

I agree Carl. I just want her to have some peace and quiet in a place she feels safe. We'll see how the next few days play out.

Awesome! Congrat! I actually did that once myself. Then got divorced, gave her the house and back to mortgageville. And I don't regret one bit of it.

She's supposedly 5 years old. and tomorrow will be one week in the house. Things feel much better tonight. When we first brought her home, we isolated her in the back bedroom as suggested by a lot of adoption sites. And she did very well. When she started trying to get out the closed door, we thought that maybe she was ready for the whole house. I now believe we were wrong. At first she was very active and affectionate but as the days went on she went to hiding under our bed most of the time. And you all have read my panic post from last night. So I think we fucked up. We let her out of the safe room too soon and the whole house freaked her out. We decided today to go back to the safe room process. We moved food, water, scratching and litter back to the spare bedroom. Several hours have passed and we just popped in to see her - alert, affectionate, interested in food, drinking water. We also added a vaporizer that dispenses Feliway pheromone that is used widely to calm nervous cats. It's an excellent turnaround from last night. We plan on keeping the safe room environment for much longer this time so she can get used to us and the sounds and smells and maybe not freak out so much. Bottom line - so far it looks like it was human error. We'll be watching her closely in case further Vet attention is needed, but I think we're back on a good track. Thanks for your help and concern.

So sorry for your loss Mike. Like others, I will raise a glass in honor of Denver tonight. Rest easy girl.

OK, so we need some kitty expertise. We took Gumby to the Vet for an initial (and free, from the Humane Society) 1st checkup. Nothing out of whack except that she is overweight and needs a dental cleaning. Besides this the Vet declared her healthy. Now our issue - since her initial intro to the house, she has been very lethargic, mostly wanting to hide under the bed(s). Tonight all she wanted to do, once coaxed downstairs, was to lay on the sofa and sleep. Add to this the fact that she has eaten very little since we adopted her and our worry level is pretty high. She ate very little dry food initially. We switched to moist food. No interest. The Vet suggested boiled chicken or canned tuna. Tuna held some interest for one feeding, no go for a second. Boiled chicken (Vet suggested) was a complete "fuck you, I'm not eating that." Not sure where to go from here regarding food. She had originally been in our laps when we ate people food, so we assumed maybe she had been fed a lot of table scraps, but tonight she showed no interest in pork chops so wtf? We're not real happy with the free visit to the Vet provided by the Humane Society, so we are thinking of traveling a little farther away from home to go to a clinic I really trust, from my previous married life, to have a wellness check done. They do total blood work in that check which the closer Vet did not. That should tell us if there is any underlying issue. So are we freaking out too much? I've owned cats before but never one as challenging as this. Feel free to tell me to calm the fuck down but I am worried about this little girl.

Steve, you're welcome to come back and hang out on the deck any time you want.

Gumby hangin' out.

My best guess would be Riciardo (sp). He's young, will do what his bosses say and won't buck Vettel. Sounds like exactly what they want as long as Vettel keeps winning.

Yep Gene, I've been owned by cats before.

Spectacular looking chow Al, Joanne and Grahame! Especially drooling over the corn.

She's gone from hiding under the bed to actively coming to us to be petted and scratched. I believe we have a winner here. And yes, Gumby is pretty killer.

And we have settled on a name. For us, what else could it be but Gumballhead? She's a bad cat.