Is Rodney a puppy?
I hope not. It’s not nearly as amusing that way.
He’s a cat.
Hm. Does Rodney get enough excercise and attention? My younger brother’s cat chews things when he agitated, but when he’s content, there’s not a bite to be found.
That is a tough situation though, because having ruined things aren’t good, but it is certainly hard to keep a cat out of anywhere you don’t want them to be but they want to go!
Well, I have a full time + job, so maybe not enough attention for him. He has a whole bunch of toys, including a fan pull chain that I extended almost all the way to the floor so he could play with it whenever.
I try to sleep with the door open most of the time, but sometimes he attacks my toes or elbows and if he does that more than a couple times a night, I kick him out for the night.
I’ve thought about getting another cat for him to have someone to play with when I’m not home, but if I do, it’ll be an older one who can hopefully teach him a bit more maturity. I got him as a kitten (he’s about 1.5 years old now), so maybe he got sent away from his mother too soon.
You know, I was actually in the same sitation about two years ago! It is most likely that he is lonely. Gaius (my first cat) was used to having another cat (or two) at home but when I moved from my parent’s place and start a full time job plus being gone for the gym and out with friends, he got upset all the time. He would be very clingy and would try to ‘play’ with me, but it would scratch me up and he would meow and walk all over me every night, so I would have to lock him out too.
I ended up getting a another kitty so he would have a friend and not be so lonely and it really helped. I got a kitten because that’s what I wanted, but even if you got an adult cat who will still play, that might help the chewing. Also, I would sometimes let them stay with me at night but mostly lock them out because kitty #2 (Stumpy) was a clinger so he would be in my face all night. But, they wouldn’t whine too much because they would cuddle together when I locked them out.
Stumpy had some issues and had to be sent back to my mom at home, but my roommate has a dog so that keeps Gaius busy. But I’m noticing the same lonely tendencies this week (no joke) because the dog is gone while my roommate is out of town for the week and Gaius is getting restless while I’m at work. If puppy ever moves out, I will be getting another kitty friend for Gaius to play with!!
I think loneliness is a likely culprit. I adopted Caprica when he was about 6 months old and he was well behaved until I moved out of my roommate’s place and in with the fiancee. He had been spending all day chilling with my roommate’s dog. Suddenly he was by himself all day and went nuts. He would hear me exit the stairwell and start mrrrrowing at the top of his little kitty lungs. He would attach himself to my legs the moment I walked in and demand pets and play for hours. He would wake me up at all hours.
We got him a pet sister named Gemma. It worked well. They keep each other entertained most of the time now.
What initially drew me to your post was that he is destroying electronics. Caprica specializes in this. I have to replace my headphones every 3-4 months because he crawls into my purse (or I forget to put them away) and noms them to death. Mother frakker.
So I’m starting up a webpage with a friend and already it’s getting ugly. He’s very adament on the type and style of content. I feel that it’s an unrealistic goal, given that we’re going to want regular updates. I’ve tried to suggest ways around his concerns, while being a little more realistic about the time we have to devote to this project. He was unwilling to compromise. I’m fairly sure he’ll realize this at some point and either give up or allow changes to our approach. I’m kind of stuck with it now, so it looks like a potentially fun side project is now job #2.
Ok life is not really “teh suck today” but I did have one of the most embarrassing moments of my adult life around 7 p.m. It involved naked me and a pair of bolt cutters. Yes, this is my naked Mal on a rock moment, folks.
Preface:
My brain is pretty fried right now. It’s been a really long, hard month at work. Haven’t been sleeping enough. Today I left for the gym right at 5:30, and walked all the way across the street before I realized that I didn’t have my gym bag. Back to the office. Picked up the bag. Restarted my journey.
Had a great frakking workout. Ran a half mile, biked 5 miles, and did an absolutely killer arms/shoulders/core workout for about 40 minutes. Afterwards I could barely feel my legs. Got into the locker room, stripped down, grabbed towel, turned on shower… realized I was still wearing my ipod. Right.
Back to locker, tossed stuff in, locked back up, showered.
Drying off I realized my key wasn’t in my hand. Surely I left it in my shoe or with my water bottle on the counter, right?
There I am, in nothing but the tiny towel that fits neatly in my bag, realizing that my clothes, phone, house keys, metro card, EVERYTHING is locked in my locker along with the key to my lock. Frakking frak.
I awkwardly poked the nearest non-naked girl, explained my dilemma and asked her to inquire at the front desk what could be done to help me (surely I can’t be the only idiot who’s ever done this, right?). She did… and promptly returned with bolt cutters.
So there I was, naked, attempting to free my clothes from the locker. And it was really hard! All dignity gone. Seriously, I have never felt more stupid and ridiculous in my life.
After several minutes of struggle I broke the lock, got dressed, and shamefacedly returned the bolt cutters. Then exited as fast as possible.
Damn, I am awkward. And silly. And I never want to be naked with nothing but a wet towel and a pair of bolt cutters again in my life.
I haven’t had that particular attack of oh-no-I-locked-the-keys-in-there, but I can sympathize. Most of mine have involved cars.
“Damn, I am awkward. And silly. And I never want to be naked with nothing but a wet towel and a pair of bolt cutters again in my life.”
While I’ve never been in that situation, I can definitely sympathize with the final sentiment. As a guy the whole concept of being naked with a set of bolt cutters holds it’s own utterly terrifying concepts.
My life is teh suck today because my girlfriend is away for the second full week, and it looks like it’ll be well into next week before she gets back.
Stupid other states existing and her being in one of them.
My earphones just busted themself so that I have to twist them to odd angles for the second one to work. Insanely minor thing I know, but words cannot describe how much it annoys me. Also, just started tests. Whoooooo.
Today was the last work day for school staff. We have a big luncheon and the principal always does a nice send off for people leaving our school. Since I got a new position next year on a different campus, I was looking forward to my moment. The new job is a big promotion and I’ve had a rough year, so I was all set for it.
Except it never came. The principal gave kudos and cards for two other support staff (who haven’t been there as long as me) and skipped me all together. He wrote me a wonderful letter of recommendation for the new job- so this shouldn’t be sour grapes, just simple oversight, but Gods Damn my feelings are hurt and I’m so pissed.
Around the end of dessert, someone must have said something because as people were packing up he said, “Oh by the way, Dawn…”
That was worse than not saying anything at all.
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Oh my, that is terrible. I understand how you feel exactly 
Frak 'im. Enjoy the new job.
Not a life is teh suck moment, but just had a bit of a shocking wakeup call on how ridiculous politics gets and seeing how it can keep even those with powerful positions shackled to idiots. Huge idiots who turn down jobs and then have their friends call and ask why they didn’t get the job. I mean, seriously?
My bank is beginning to damage my calm… 45 minutes and counting.
My team is making an application that works with some other tools in a tool suite (that we used to make. Long story). So, the people we’re delivering to asked us to make a change to one of their tools (Battle Roster) to support one of our new features. We did it and delivered to them, no big deal.
Last week they came to us and complained that our changes didn’t work with this other related tool, so my lead asked me to look into it. It ends up that the reason it didn’t work with the new tool is that the new tool was made to work with version 6.3 of Battle Roster, while our changes were on version 8.1.
So somehow, it’s our fault that their tool doesn’t work with a tool that was never stepped up two whole versions.
I’m not getting it stepped up all the way, since tomorrow’s my last day on this program, but it’ll hopefully work with the changes we made at least.
Costumers. Don’t get paid without 'em. Don’t get the insurance money if you kill 'em.