No flight cancellations this time: hooray, Jak is home! I survived just over 153 hours this round, 50% longer; I’m not as much of an emotional mess, but I’m more physically exhausted. However, I think I made another mini-breakthrough on Tashi’s biting behavior while Jak was gone. Giving him time outs when he becomes unmanageable is not a new idea…
A lot of other things have happened so far in November besides the whole CATNIP escapade, and I will attempt (emphasis on attempt) to catch up to the present here. That’s more than two weeks, so this is likely to be long, but like I said: this is as much a record for myself as anything, and if it interests…
In looking over my early posts to this new blog, I realize that something very important fell into the gaping hole between September 2020 and July 2022, and I want to amend the record now. In June 2020 I wrote about how, despite being pro-vax in general, the fact that all vaccines come with extra, horrifying risk for me in…
I believe Jak was the one to first point out that we had relatively useless kitchen-adjacent space which might be brought inside, an idea that I grabbed onto desperately in my quest for kitchen improvement. Even with that expansion, though, there were still a lot of pre-existing constraints in play, so everything about the design was an exercise in tradeoffs.…
Let me start by being perfectly clear: I am very much in favor of vaccination. From the first time I heard about it, I thought the whole anti-vaccination concept was ridiculously unscientific; now, with the additional knowledge that comes from my study of autism, I am even more aggravated and incensed by anti-vaxxer rhetoric. Which is why it’s extremely embarrassing…