So, my news this week is that after a suspicion that something wasn't quite right with Fearless, and a couple of trips to the vet, it has been confirmed that he has diabetes. Saturday morning was my first morning doing insulin shots. Fortunately, it's gone about as well as is possible... it's a very small needle, and Fearless took it without any complaint. It may just be my imagination, but I think he already feels better. So, in about six hours, we do it all over again...
I'm just glad it's something treatable. I was so scared it wasn't going to be.
Because of this, I'm looking at trying to start making all the food for my guys... after some reading I am becoming convinced that that is the direction to go. So one thing I am looking for is a good, high-powered meat grinder.
In other news...
My bosses gave me my desk from work- we are relocating to smaller offices and it just would not fit through the doors in the new place. So I spent this evening with my cousin getting the larger of the two parts home. This has inspired me to state:
Grayness' First Observation on Furniture
If a given piece of furniture, when moved, is more likely to break you than you it, then it is well made.
I love my new 300 pound baby sitting in the hall.
And amazingly enough, no Graynesses {or cousins} were harmed in the production of this piece. Now if I can just get it into *this* room...
so, my answers...
SPOILERS! (Click to view)
- What's the oddest thing in which you have sincerely believed?
I have a trick answer to this question- nothing. Thinking back, I never believed in most of the things ordinary children did... I just *wanted* to. Belief has long been a scarce commodity for me... and I envy those who have it, in anything that makes them a better person, or that adds some magic to the world.
This leads me to another observation: if you ever have children, don't be too honest with them, too soon. My mom knew[and knows] this, I think. My father...
- Are you the same person you were five years ago? If not, how different are you, and how?
I'm mostly the same. Sometimes I'm proud that I'm a bit tougher, sometimes I worry that that toughness is going a little too deep. Heh. And sometimes I laugh at myself for thinking too much instead of just doing what needs doing...
- Who, of all the people in the world, has your favorite voice? You may pick male and female if you like, or can't narrow it down.
Male? Jimmy Stewart. Female? Well, actually someone none of you know. She came to the United States when she was 14 from what was at the time the Soviet Union, and she has just the tiniest trace of that background left in her speaking voice. That, and she's pretty much my favorite person on the face of the earth...
- What subject area gave you, or gives you now, the most trouble in school? What was the most fun?
The hardest subject I ever had was linguistic anthropology... because it completely failed to interest me, and also because I am not so hot with precisely distinguishing spoken sounds that don't occur in English. Written language is much easier- one reason I love dead languages. 
The most fun would be a toss up between Archaeology and Astronomy. Astronomy by a hair, I think.
- The "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it fall" question.... deep, pointless, or el caca de toro?
The full question is "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it fall, does it make a noise?"
I view it as pointless, although I respect that others may not.
- So, if you were put in charge of an ancient monastery/repository of infinite wisdom, and you had to test those who came to the gates, and either turn them away as unworthy, or let them pass... what would be your test?
I like the answer Thaddius gave, in particular. But my answer is just that I would quietly watch unseen from a distance, and wait, and that there is no one path that might gain entry for someone. I suspect it would be more of a test of my character than of any who would come...
- Sleep issues aside- do you prefer sunset or sunrise?
Sunset. Twilight always seems to be when I hit my stride. It's when the light is right for the way I look at things, and when there is, for me, just the least little trace of magic.
- Does history show, again and again, how nature points out the folly of men?
Well, men have lots of folly, but they tend to point out each other's follies [although not usually their own] without nature [other than human] even having to get involved.
And indeed, we are not above nature.
Oh- and GODZILLA!
- What's your favorite short story, ever?
The Boy Who Drew Cats
- If you could be dramatically (1) more beautiful/handsome, (2) more funny, or (3) more wise which would you chose?
Well, to be more funny, one would have to be more witty, usually. Be able to think faster. And one would have to have more empathy for other people- an insight into their natures in order to understand what would amuse them. And a funny person can comfort and bring happiness, which is really being beautiful on an emotional level. So, I think being more funny is a good way of getting elements of both of the other two choices.
Plus, I think I'd annoy myself if I were too wise.
- If you could be all three of the previous, or somewhat more lucky which would you chose?
I honestly don't know. I'd prefer to succeed without luck- by my own skill, on my own merits, doing things not the easy way, but the Grayness way. But that also strikes me as hubris. Who am I to turn down fortune when the universe would be gracious enough to offer it?
I think I would politely ask the universe for all three... and not to need luck.
There are other things to talk about... but I am still... thinking.
IPOD
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And so glad the kitty problem is one you can help him with. Once you start making their food, I would like to hear how it goes. I have kind of read a little about it in the past and know that it can be a lot of work, but the health benefits are amazing.
