LadyCrimson

They're both neutered. Not a guarantee of not spraying/marking, especially if one waits until after they start the behavior to neuter (vs. before 4 months say). Get the feeling it was done later. Mr. Grey's the hall sprayer...maybe once or twice a week. Mr. Black just pees on the inside walls of the litter box occasionally.

In an effort to not have to give up one of my new cats, I'm trying this: http://petcomfortzone.com/cats.html ....I'm pretty dubious, plus it's expensive. But if it works I suppose I can deal with that. So far Mr. Grey does appear to be more mellowed/less high strung, at least. Don't know about his hallway spraying problem yet. We'll see.

I've decided that perhaps this new info explains why eating a giant bag of beef jerky makes me happy. ...also, Gorth, what exactly is too much work for cooking beef? Versus what? I'll grant it's more work than eating an apple, but not more work than cooking chicken, pork, sausage, etc. At least in general. eg not going for a perfect chef creation, just tossing in a pan, in the oven or on the BBQ.

Ultima7 .... kind of interesting. Graphics are actually tolerable/fine, considering. What I'm having trouble with is feeling like the game alternates between herky jerky and sudden speed ups, as well as mouse-click response delays. I dunno if it's GoG's dos-box usage to get it running on Windows or what, but makes it hard to get into the game that way. :/ So far the voice acting cracks me up. Not because it's bad or annoying, but so much of it seems a bit over the top, in almost a satire kind of way.

I get my daily requirement of sarcasm from my spouse, which makes me laugh, and laughter is the best medicine, right?

If you dislike sports and most anything else that actually requires a lot of sustained physical activity, it's all boring and tedious. I don't think there's ever been a "physical activity" that I found at all entertaining for more than a brief moment or three. It was always a means to an end (bicycling, walking/backpacking to get somewhere cool), not something I enjoyed for the sake of itself. Well, I do like dancing, but I don't like crowds/strangers. Taking nature walks with a camera is nice, but it's not exactly much exercise when I'm stopping every 3 minutes to snap photos for 5. :D

This is why I stopped paying much attention to health "news" or movements and just go with moderation and basic common sense.

Lower or upper back? I almost never have lower but upper back/shoulder is an issue. Adjustable and very high armrests on my chair keeps my shoulders from "slumping" as much, so upper back/neck gets less strain. Side benefit, less wrist stress since elbow/wrist is about level with top of desk/keyboard instead of an angle. But mostly, like the others have said...take lots of short frequent breaks, and stretch a lot during those breaks. Doesn't matter what age you are, it's a good habit to have. Also, imo a chair seat that's relatively flat works best. I don't understand these chairs that seem to be shaped with a bowl-like curve (higher on the sides, sunken in the middle). Maybe it's because I'm a gal, but I find that uncomfortable, both for my butt and for back posture it tends to inspire.

I have a tendency towards "out of sight/hearing out of mind" so something like fish aren't pets I'd do well with. I'd forget to feed them or something. Today updated some drivers, downloaded some games, cursed a particular quirk of my soundcard (need to change it to a different model someday) and browsed for cheap laptops. I can't decide what's a "good" cheap laptop these days, for just web browsing/social and stuff (not a gaming one). The ancient Sony Vaio I've been using can barely handle most script-heavy pages of today now (twitter makes it slow to a crawl). Bah.

Bought some fave city build/sim games from GoG (stronghold, RCT), as well as finally grabbing BG1 for my Win7 machine. But I also bought Ultima7 pack. I've never played it. I hear it's an uber classic or something. ....let's see if I can get past the "omg this is so old..." reaction that I get from looking at screenshots.

I was wondering about more details as well. If "forced" to say awake longer than you generally wanted to, that could induce some feeling of restlessness or boredom, leading to reaching for more snacks. But also depends what you're doing. Obviously, they didn't spend that extra hour 20 minutes running on a treadmill. I dunno...doesn't seem like a very good test. Perhaps people with more "natural" insomnia (rather than forced awakeness because you're trying to study etc) don't have such rises and falls in hormone levels when deprived of sleep.

One day I shall have a mansion with an entire wing and possibly an outdoor building dedicated to all kinds of pets....and a hireling to help me take care of them.

Can't speak for anyone else, but every time my weight bounces upwards it's because I'm bored, or watching too much TV (not gaming/internet, TV/films). Something about those two states of mind make me eat more. But I'm not a stress or depressed eater (I eat less when in those conditions). I've had insomnia off and on for years, and for me personally, it doesn't = gained more weight during insomniac periods. However, it is true that the longer I'm awake, the more time my belly has to tell me "it's been 5-6 hours since you gave me anything to digest, hey" so in a 24 hr. timespan you do tend to eat an extra meal a day, perhaps. Still, that didn't make me gain weight per se, since I was also awake and doing other stuff/burning more calories than I do while just sleeping. So while there may be some chemical stuff going on there re: sleep that may have an effect on some people in a lab, I have the feeling that there's a lot more to moderate-severe weight gain than that.

I still haven't bought another dwarf hamster. Mostly because I keep thinking "I'll never find one w/a similar personality again." I might, but I might not. heh I'd love to try a gerbil, but they're illegal to own as a pet in California. And I think a chinchilla would be too pricey/too much care.

So I see a woman who appears to be in some state of distress, a tentacle coming out of an arm (or at least out of a suit that's around an arm) and someone with a ruined melted face apparently attacking other crew. Then just big open spaces and ships. From my pov of knowing nothing, not exactly a spoiler. If anything, it tells me almost nothing except that it's a threat in space movie that looks to be a bit more cerebral than most. I really wish I could be excited for this movie. I respect/admire Ridley Scott, but I also know he's made (imo) a few pretty big clunkers. eg, no one's perfect. I hope this doesn't become his SW prequel.

Season finale of Walking Dead kicked butt. Reminds me of last season of Breaking Bad, where it was slow and plodding for so long and then suddenly it exploded into awesomeness the last 3-4 episodes. Not quite the B.Bad level of awesome, but still awesome. Went from "meh, might stop watching" to "Can't wait for Season3!"

Never heard of this Beamdog thing. But if it means I have to install yet another 3rd party client to start/run the game....then no. I'm so tired of needing a piece of software (other than the O/S...) to run a single program I may be interested in. If it's something more akin to Steam and potentially useful outside of that one thing, then...maybe. But I doubt it.

It's official. I don't understand the world or the "current generation" on many things anymore. I'm a gonna lock myself in my room now and pretend it's still 1977. :D

Hm. I'm semi-interested, since it could give me the reason/excuse to revisit BG1 after all these years, but it really depends on what they mean by "a re-forged version of the Infinity Engine with a variety of modern improvements." ...I'm not someone who thinks "modern" necessarily=improvement, so a big ? there. **edit: reading the twitter feed, looks like some potential positive things

I wouldn't say I want to play it "badly" but I do wish I could try it out. The videos I saw a while back were quite interesting. But yeah...no PS3 so.. :/ heh

Yeah, to me it's dependent on the wage vs. the hours they're actually working. If it's an hour or two, fine. A little money for simple side work that doesn't involve something "dangerous." But if it falls much under min. wage than it seems more like exploitation. Perhaps well-intentioned, but still. I like the quote at the bottom of the article, from someone named Adam Hanft:

Cameron is half-expected to be a big spender tho. (Abyss, T2, etc). He's notorious for it. heh According to wiki, PotC1 was made for $140 million & had a worldwide gross of over $650million, and PotC $225million and over 1 billion. So yeah, it's more typical to spend less on the 1st one, and if it's a hit, then you go big with the 2nd. Don't know what Disney was thinking. And, uh...haven't seen any movies this week, but The Walking Dead's last episode was great, and the season ender next week looks to be a fun one. Which is nice, since most of the 2nd season was so slow & tedious.

This bites hard. I'm starting to fear for Obsidian. Sympathies to those affected and here's hoping for things to start turning around soon.

What you're all forgetting is that the studio doesn't take in the entire gross reported. They split it with the theaters. So if we say that budget+marketing=$350-400 million and the theaters take approx. half of that, basically Disney needed it to be a $800million+ (worldwide) theatrical movie. So far, the last numbers I saw were it was hitting approx. $100million (worldwide). Now as mentioned, with DVD sales later, it's possible it won't be a total "bust" in the end, but of course it's not what Disney/a studio wanted to see at all. If Disney thinks the film had good enough response (review/audience scores wise etc), as it may have, they may still make a sequel, but I bet it won't have such a high budget. Hahaha. Their mistake, marketing wise, was to seemingly assume "everyone" would know who the heck John Carter is. I sure don't. Plus, the ads I saw on TV make it look like nothing more than, oh, say, another "Scorpion King" type movie combined with Star Wars prequels fantasy, which is a total zzzz of an impression. I still have no interest in seeing it, tbh. I'm tired of action movies with shirtless muscled dudes flexing their biceps as they perform wild action sequences surrounded by huge CGI armies. Or whatever.

You'll get over it. Signing up doesn't mean you have to live on twitter, or something. I barely use it. :D Yesterday I spent too much time discovering all of Parry Gripp's silly 'net meme songs/videos and playing some on repeat, much to the annoyance of my spouse. Today I'm still trying to get over the guilt of possibly taking Mr. Grey (cat) back to the shelter. Turns out he has litter box & feeding issues that I don't want to deal with for the next decade or more. He's so sweet/cute but our house is too small & my time/energy too low for a young pet with constant - vs. occasional - issues. I've tried so many things to make it better but...sigh...this decision is going to take me a while to make.