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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Sunset at the End of the Industrial Age



I usually post during the weekdays here, but I have been stymied in my efforts lately. As you may know, my company was bought out by another company some months back and we are finally being switched over to their network. This has been pretty annoying all around, but everything has been hammered out now and I enjoy full access to the many wonderful opportunities that await me at the new company.

Sidebar: I'm getting so sick of the way office people use the word "opportunities" when they really mean "failure." Instead of saying they screwed something up, they always say they see "areas of opportunity" like they did somebody a favor.

Anyhow, one unfortunate opportunity in this regard is that the new company apparently thinks blogger is dangerous to productivity and has it blocked. This will either have the result of finally, after 5 years at this, to move this operation fully to the server instead of using Blogger's infrastructure. Or maybe I won't bother.

Even worse for me, Flickr is also blocked. I hate that. Half the time I spend during the day is checking to see if anybody has posted new cat photos! Hey, to thine own self be true. So I'm thinking maybe I'll get one of those nifty iPhone things and write it off as a business expense.

In any case, all this upheaval will culminate with me moving offices yet again, a little further downtown. For some reason, nobody is able to tell us when exactly when we will move, but I hope they give us at least a few more days; my cubicle is full of cat food I need to lug home still.

On the home front, I am happy to report the Mugsy (pictured above with perennial worrywart Freddie) is feeling much better and is back to looking like his usual disheveled self. Thanks to Empty Cages Collective, I got some Lysine gel to add to his food, which appears to have helped him fight off the infection. He still could use a good powerwashing but this is about as good as he ever looked.

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posted by Jimmy Legs at 2:40 PM



Comments:

Thanks for the Mugsy update :) I took a real shine to this little guy from the first pic I saw of him.
I stumbled upon your site a few months back and check back often to look at your cat photos and read about all the great things you do to give them a better life.
My fiance & I have 4 rescued cats, a pound puppy & 2 rescue turtles, so I can relate to the home-zoo lifestyle.
Keep up the great work!!

Instead of buying lysine gel from a vet (even if it is donated!), you can get powdered lysine in gel caps from your local vitamin/health food store - a huge bottle of 500 is only $6 or so. You can open up the capsules and add the powder to the food you feed your outdoor cats. It has no taste and when I do this with my cats they don't notice. I just throw in the contents of one capsule (250mg twice a day) into their food whenever they get upper respiratory outbreaks (they were shelter cats) and it cuts the time they have symptoms in half. Any time you notice mugsy getting runny eyes ect. you can just starting adding it til he looks better.

Lysine, the amino acid? What does that do?

Sean K
Cell Biologist

Much like Suz I am a Mugsy fan...what can I say, I'm a mush for orange & white boy cats ! :-)
I was so sad when I read the last Mugsy post prior to this update and I am so very happy to hear that he's doing better !

He and all of the kitties under your care are VERY lucky to have you as their guardian !
:-)

Don't know the exact details but lysine helps boost the immune system and help cats suppress the herpes virus (the most common cause of chronic upper respiratory infections in cats). Apparently it helps shorten the duration of herpes outbreaks in humans too :)

Mugsy is a beautiful fella. Props to you for helping the rough, tough old ferals. They need every friend they can get.

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