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End of Summer Update

Aug24
2016
Rob Written by Rob

[ Mom: Sorry to hear about Oscar. We haven’t been checking R&K much this year, and I only saw your comment about his passing this morning. I know it’s now months later, but thoughts and prayers. We know it’s hard. ]

So I’m sitting here at my desk this morning waiting for the first of the day’s vendors to arrive. Sometime this morning our new pest control service is going to arrive and hopefully nuke the everloving bejezzus out of our growing ant population. Because seriously, we’ve had enough. Enough of the marching armies. Enough of the ants floating in our drinking glasses. Enough of the great and almighty swarms every time one of the cats happens to leave a piece of kibble on the floor. ENOUGH.

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Posted in Everyday Life, Work

Veruca

Oct12
2015
Rob Written by Rob

For my first-ever pet, Veruca’s clock started running in December 1999, backdated by “at least” two years. We never knew exactly how old she was, only that she was at least two years old at that time, because she’d already had had at least one litter by then. The truth, though, was that she could have been two or she could have been five. There’s not a huge amount of difference between the two in a healthy cat.

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That meant that, in 2015, Ruca was at the very minimum 18 years old, and probably closer to 20 or 22. On Saturday, I punched up a cat-to-human age calculator on the Internet. The formula is something like this: 15 human years to the first year, 10 to the second, 4 for every year after that. At 18 years old, the human version of Ruca would be 96 years old. At 20 or 21, the number is more like 105.

And she was fairly spry and healthy all her life. When she began her inevitable downturn late last week, it happened fast. She was done. And even though we weren’t at all surprised, you’re never really prepared – the timing is just never good.

But this morning, at the extreme age of 18+YourGuessIsAsGoodAsMine, Veruca peacefully passed under the exemplary care of our vet, Dr. Johnston, and so our zoo’s population has lessened by one cantankerous, fussy old woman who would have just been annoyed had it gone on much longer.

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Handy-capable

Oct08
2015
Rob Written by Rob

Okay, so let me get this out of the way right now: I have the natural temperament of a renter. I do. I know that. I come from a state of renters, I didn’t really grow up with a homeowner’s mindset, I spent most of my adult life in apartments.

I. Call. Maintenance.

I’m not necessarily proud of this fact, but I’m also not particularly ashamed of it, either. It’s just how it is. At any given time, I’d much rather sit on my ass troubleshooting some obscure issues with bits and bytes than banging boards together in the backyard. However, as a homeowner now, there’s only so much responsibility that I can dodge before I’m rightfully drafted by basic human obligation and common sense.

When did this shit start?

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Posted in House and Yard

#OurEden

Sep09
2015
Rob Written by Rob

Okay, so you know that old brain teaser we learned in school, about taking the chicken, fox and bag of grain across the river? That’s pretty much all day, every day, with Hashtag-Our-Eden.

Recent true tales from the continuing adventures of the Royal Peanut, aka Harley of the Quinns.

A few Sunday mornings back, Kristi and I are sitting at our desks drinking coffee and reading dumb things on the Web, as one does on a weekend morning. Dog is outside in the back yard. It’s early. We’re both undercaffeinated. Suddenly the Internet goes completely out.

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