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otherstuff
10:18 PM - 10/07/2006

The topic: Website crapola

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Okay, the postcard portion of my website has been removed. Why? Because I can’t run the cards properly using the hotlink prevention. And if I don’t enable the hotlink prevention, I’m seeing that people are sending my pictures and posting my images on their websites, drawing directly from my site.

I hate seeing something I’ve worked hard on being sent via email, with no acknowledgement of where the picture came from. And sucking my bandwidth while doing so.

Unfortunately, this also affected the gameroom, so this evening, I moved all of the games over to the forum website. I got most of the coding fixed, so the games work, but there are some things that do not work any longer and they have to be removed. That wasn’t a job for tonight.

I found a software that I could open a main folder and it would look in all of the subdirectories to search and replace code. Boy, was that nice.

And in the place of the image that’s being stolen, I’ve made a nice little graphic.  I’m sure it will be a surprise for those who see it.  It’s an advertisement for my sites.

wink


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otherstuff
10:16 PM - 10/07/2006

The topic: Speaking of coyotes

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The moon must have brought them out last night.  It was horrible.

They started around 8:30.  Yipping and screaming.  The kept it up all night long.  It was so bad, I seriously considered closing the window.  At one point, one of our cats up in the bay window was growling at something outside.  I’d bet my next weeks’ lunches that it was a coyote in the yard.  I have to admit, I was happy to see KittyMeeze here for breakfast.

I hate coyotes.  I really and truly hate them.  I smiled when I saw one dead on the side of the freeway on the way to WalMart this morning. 

I hate them.


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catstuff
10:08 PM - 10/07/2006

The topic: People who I’d never let have one of my kitty cats

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So, we’re back from WalMart, stuff is where it belongs (plastic bags tied up and in the trash) and we decided to walk down the street to one of the neighbor’s who was having a yard sale.  I’d seen one of those big turtle kid’s sandboxes and thought it would be a swell litterbox.  Brian didn’t agree.

Anyway, there really wasn’t much there, but there were two old sewing machines in cabinets.  I didn’t need a machine, but I really liked the cabinets.  You can’t get them like that anymore.  These were real wood, not particle board like the ones I’ve had.  My old one disintegrated from cat pee and my new one is well on the way to being ruined, no matter how often I clean it off.  They were selling the machine and cabinet for $75.00.  I told her I just wanted the cabinet, she said “$10.00”.  That was a steal!

Brian was talking to the man of the house and I chatted with the lady of the house and her kids.  This was the place were Ciara originally came from, another domicile of cat lovers.  Except they don’t love cats the way we do.  They let theirs out at night and let them go free range.  She told me about a really friendly stray, black and white longhair that she fed, but one day the neighbor told her the remains were in their yard.  Coyotes.  I’d mentioned how many we had and that we had a couple of kittens.  The daughter perked up, how old were the kittens.  I just shook my head.  “We’re like a roach motel for cats, they check in, but they don’t check out”.  The father asked if we had any that looked like Bengals.

Sorry, guy, but I’d never give or sell a cat to a home who let them roam.  And didn’t get around to spaying one of their females.  Just not responsible owners.  There’s more to being a responsible owner than just feeding the kitty, ya know? 

Brian and I talked about it on the way home and he totally agreed.


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catstuff
10:04 PM - 10/07/2006

The topic: Aw, little Potter

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We went to WalMart this morning after breakfast and picked up a few things.  When we got home, I put the bags on the coffee table, then started to put things away.  Stupidly, one of the plastic bags fell on the floor and I didn’t think anything of it.  I should have.

Potter immediately hopped over to see what it was and got inside.  The sound freaked him out and he started running.  Boy, was Brian mad at me. 

Potter ran into the living room, into the bedroom, into the garage.  Brian tried to talk to him and calm him down, but didn’t have any luck.  I did.  I picked him up and removed the bag handle from around his waist and talked gently to him and put him on the loveseat.  He looked at me, jumped down and ran outside.  I was glad he hadn’t gone outside while wearing the bag.

I’ll have to be a lot more careful with bags from here on out.


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lisaviolet is seventy something, married with no kids, takes care of lots of cats, likes taking photographs, loves Southern California weather and spends altogether too much time avoiding her responsibilities.

In her spare time, she makes pretty things to sell in her store.

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