Monthly Archives: February 2005

Kylie the Kitty had quite a weekend, and I feel really badly about it. My parents had to put their 18-year-old cat Shady and 15-year-old black lab Jente to sleep in early January, leaving the 13-year-old sweet teddy-bear mutt Cody & the still-puppy-wild 6-year-old yellow lab Tule as the only animals. My mom would like to get another cat, but since we know Tule is such a wild one, my mom requested I bring Kylie when I visited this past weekend as a “test” since at least we knew Kylie can hold her own against other animals from her various growling and pouncing performances when she lived there for a year in 1997.

Well, Tule was even worse than we ever expected!

Only two months late from the original plan… 😛

At least they’re done before February ended, so it’s still winter…now to get a photo with & I wearing our new fleece hats, scarves & matching gloves…hehe…

Good night…

I’ve never been good at abstract…my artistic skills are much too literal I guess…*shrug*

My PicassoHead “self portrait in blue”

Yeah, it really sucks too…I’m just having a sucky time all around lately…we don’t even have an ETA of when it might be back up, but at least I’m getting email via gmail for now. I wish I could work on my website as a distraction from other things in my life, but c’est la vie. I’ve even started getting email from strangers “where did britta.com go?”

*sigh*

Waaah…last night around 11:30pm I noticed our server was refusing my attempts to download email, but the webserver was still working…I couldn’t ssh in either, so I notified my friend with the more advanced networking “skilz” who started looking into it this morning when it was still flaky…console was spewing wacky stuff, so he went onsite, rebooted twice, and now it’s really down, with fears it can’t be resurrected. My website & email are all totally backed up, but not having britta.com available is very tragic to me…especially when I was just finally finishing the Mardi Gras 2005 webpages this morning!

So, we’ve almost got a fwd to gmail backup solution settled, but not quite functional, and I’ll have to survive anyway, since my British Boy is arriving tomorrow, so we’ll have a fabulous week including San Francisco, Yosemite, etc, anyway…ahhhh…*sigh* 😀

I almost posted yesterday morning just because my mini daffodils are blooming! I love that…all of a sudden, the next morning you have striking yellow admist all the green in the garden…just in time for his first view of my house & garden, too…hooray!