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Someone on the Discworld comm. on LJ (well, one of them) has brought up Terry Pratchett's million pound donation to Alzheimer's research and suggested that if half a million Pratchett fans donated two pounds each we could match his donation.
Link to Thread.
So far, people seem to be donating more than that (no problems there), but I figured I'd pass it along.
Anyway, I thought I'd pimp it here. (Not a lot of people read my journal, but I know some of you are Pratchett fans, so I figured I'd throw it out. :-)
Link to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, since most of you folks are from here. :-)
In other news:
We have feral cats in our neighbourhood.
Because I've only seen four or five of them wandering around the place (always the same bunch - two short-haired calicos, a baby short-hair black, a baby short-hair o&w, and a big, poofy, black long-hai), and because they looked fairly healthy, un-matted, and fed, I figured they must be living *with* someone(s).
I found out the other day that, no, in fact there's a lady in the next set of condos over who is feeding them.
And there are quite a bit more than four or five. (1-2 dozen, maybe?)
My neighbour from that set of condos has said that they've managed to catch nine, so far, which is good.
I am, how ever, more than a little worried.
Why?
Because I'm feeding them, too.
I put bones and chicken skin and such-like in my (open air) compost heap. (They rot, too - and it keeps the critters from digging in my garbage).
So, it's unintentional, but it's happening.
Now, see, I love cats. I love them. They are beautiful and wonderful and snarky and grand.
I want them to be happy and healthy and well fed and not separated from their families.
What I *don't* want them to be is inbred and starving and diseased due to over-population (or for any other reason).
So. No more chicken remains in the compost. Boneless-skinless from now on.
Also: If anyone (Raynedaze, I'm looking at you) feels like taking the time to come down to my neck of the woods, and tame a feral cat (or three) - a la Little Prince + Fox - you can feel free. There are, apparently, lots. :-\
In still other news: I get to be social this week/end. :-)
This afternoon is a work-party - noon until 2pm at some restaurant on Bay street (I'm just going to follow other people) - because one person is retiring, and two other people have birthdays coming up. :-) (One of them being one of my immediate supervisors - a dude who is a total fantasy geek, which is kind of awesome because we speak similar languages. ;-) I think it will be fun. :-) [1]
Tonight is Tashiro's birthday party, so I shall be heading out that-a-way to see people this evening. :-)
Sunday is Slasher's brunch - technically also Pagan brunch, but I want to see my slashers this week - whereat I may try to find a beta for my Pr0n. I know of (at least) one editor who charges for her time - I may end up hiring her for a draft that has fewer obvious holes in it (and/or once I know I can get paid for my writing - either way), but not yet. Right now, I just want someone to go "Yep, yep, that sounds about right," and give me good suggestions for how to fix all the bits that don't.
Monday I get to go for dinner chez the lovely Arndis and Tchang. :-)[2]
So it's going to be a busy weekend. :-) Paul and I will have to do something together on Saturday, just to say we did. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
[1] I *really* like where I'm working - which is nice, since they seem to really like me, too (they keep talking about trying to get me indeterminate status, although for all I know it could be just talk) - my co-workers are all, pretty much, awesome, and my immediate supervisors are (A) a guy who reads fantasy novels all the time, and (B) a gal who wants to learn about goth and paganism and bits and pieces of the other subcultures I'm part of (as and if they come up[3]) just to make her world a little bit bigger. YAY!! :-D These people are fantastic! :-D
[2] Who get many thanks, by the way, for being the sex therapists that I need, but don't actually have. :-) Thanks, folks. :-)
[3] So far, no-one's asked me about BDSM, but then it hasn't come up, either. YAY! :-)
Link to Thread.
So far, people seem to be donating more than that (no problems there), but I figured I'd pass it along.
Anyway, I thought I'd pimp it here. (Not a lot of people read my journal, but I know some of you are Pratchett fans, so I figured I'd throw it out. :-)
Link to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, since most of you folks are from here. :-)
In other news:
We have feral cats in our neighbourhood.
Because I've only seen four or five of them wandering around the place (always the same bunch - two short-haired calicos, a baby short-hair black, a baby short-hair o&w, and a big, poofy, black long-hai), and because they looked fairly healthy, un-matted, and fed, I figured they must be living *with* someone(s).
I found out the other day that, no, in fact there's a lady in the next set of condos over who is feeding them.
And there are quite a bit more than four or five. (1-2 dozen, maybe?)
My neighbour from that set of condos has said that they've managed to catch nine, so far, which is good.
I am, how ever, more than a little worried.
Why?
Because I'm feeding them, too.
I put bones and chicken skin and such-like in my (open air) compost heap. (They rot, too - and it keeps the critters from digging in my garbage).
So, it's unintentional, but it's happening.
Now, see, I love cats. I love them. They are beautiful and wonderful and snarky and grand.
I want them to be happy and healthy and well fed and not separated from their families.
What I *don't* want them to be is inbred and starving and diseased due to over-population (or for any other reason).
So. No more chicken remains in the compost. Boneless-skinless from now on.
Also: If anyone (Raynedaze, I'm looking at you) feels like taking the time to come down to my neck of the woods, and tame a feral cat (or three) - a la Little Prince + Fox - you can feel free. There are, apparently, lots. :-\
In still other news: I get to be social this week/end. :-)
This afternoon is a work-party - noon until 2pm at some restaurant on Bay street (I'm just going to follow other people) - because one person is retiring, and two other people have birthdays coming up. :-) (One of them being one of my immediate supervisors - a dude who is a total fantasy geek, which is kind of awesome because we speak similar languages. ;-) I think it will be fun. :-) [1]
Tonight is Tashiro's birthday party, so I shall be heading out that-a-way to see people this evening. :-)
Sunday is Slasher's brunch - technically also Pagan brunch, but I want to see my slashers this week - whereat I may try to find a beta for my Pr0n. I know of (at least) one editor who charges for her time - I may end up hiring her for a draft that has fewer obvious holes in it (and/or once I know I can get paid for my writing - either way), but not yet. Right now, I just want someone to go "Yep, yep, that sounds about right," and give me good suggestions for how to fix all the bits that don't.
Monday I get to go for dinner chez the lovely Arndis and Tchang. :-)[2]
So it's going to be a busy weekend. :-) Paul and I will have to do something together on Saturday, just to say we did. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
[1] I *really* like where I'm working - which is nice, since they seem to really like me, too (they keep talking about trying to get me indeterminate status, although for all I know it could be just talk) - my co-workers are all, pretty much, awesome, and my immediate supervisors are (A) a guy who reads fantasy novels all the time, and (B) a gal who wants to learn about goth and paganism and bits and pieces of the other subcultures I'm part of (as and if they come up[3]) just to make her world a little bit bigger. YAY!! :-D These people are fantastic! :-D
[2] Who get many thanks, by the way, for being the sex therapists that I need, but don't actually have. :-) Thanks, folks. :-)
[3] So far, no-one's asked me about BDSM, but then it hasn't come up, either. YAY! :-)
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