Kitty had his vet appointment Saturday morning. He is OK although he does have an infection on the part of his paw that seemed to bleed get irratated often. He is on some antibiotics and when that goes away if the bleeding persists he will probably have to go in again and have his paw opened up a bit to shave down any bone that is remaining., sometimes it can grow back a bit. Hope he doesn’t have to go back but we’ll see. I think when he goes running quickly in the carpet that it gets caught in the ground a bit. A couple of days before his appointment he ran outside when I was getting BBQ sauce, he had it very planned out because I didn’t even see him nearby and I was looking out for him since he is always trying to get out. I should have known since this time when I went in he wasn’t standing at the door waiting. He came back later on at night. I pretty much stayed up until 11.30 watching Inu Yasha waiting for him. He was wet, wet, wet with some very muddy paws and the spot on his foot was covered in a bit of blood too. About an hour or two later when he came to my room he was still a little damp. I swear he got seperated from his mom too early becasue of things like that. Before Kathy washed him becasue he smelled particularly nasty and hours later the end of his tail was still completely wet. Also it would explain how much of a suck he is. Jen said he was sleeping by her head the few nights he stayed over. I think he was looking for protection from the other cats. Anyways yeah so he was out in the rain during the downpour on Wednesday night. Oh yeah he also has gingivitas. They gave some treats that are suppose to help with it but being the cat that he is he doesn’t eat them. I haven’t had him eat a treat in over a year. Right now one of the samples they gave is mixed in his food dish and the other three are in a cat nip bag. He did sniff them for quite a long time.

Kathy has been studying for the week for her two exams on Saturday so she wasn’t around and I was bored and lonely. I pretty much finished off watching Inu Yasha. I must say they ended the TV show rather badly. It just kind of ends, nothing was really given to fans, no conclusions on any sort of story line or romantic links or anything. I guess I am suppose to continue reading the manga but I don’t have time for that. I think I will be picking up the new movie when it gets released this month. It seems we always get another Inuyasha movie before going to see Leia, Keh!

Saturday I spent most of the day with Kathy, although she was reading and writing and I was playing a whole lot of Suduku. I finally unlocked the last mode in Daily Training, it is voice math. I hope it’s voice recognition is better with numbers than it is with me saying the colour Blue. It only seems to register properly half the time. I have been keeping my brain age under 30 for the week, even got it to 20 a couple of times. I played the EyeToy Play 2 game finally. I didn’t like it too much, the games I expected them to be simple in nature but they don’t have too much replay value, at least in single player mode, although they are a bit amusing. Mr. Chef was kind of gross though, he looks like he has an infected bellybutton. The mini games the back of the box refers to are basically all the simple mini games they have in the middle of the games to break up the ,monotony of the main games. They are of course the only things available in multi player mode. and you have to play that mode it seems one at a time. I can see it being fun to play while drunk or naked, especially chop the pickle.

We spent a couple of hours at Riverside Park, I never really been in their animal section, it is pretty basic compared to Waterloo park, a couple of horses, goats, sheeps, and cows. It looks like they use to have rabits but they do not anymore, it appears that they keep the enclosure for snails and another one for wild squirrels. The park has a lot of Geese, there was a couple with wounded wings and another with a broken wing and missing foot, poor goosey. Someone started throwing some bread at the ducks and than all of a sudden all of the geese in the water formed a single file line and went to the source. It was quite odd to see, especially since we didn’t know that there was a bread throwing going on, they just all started to organize and leave, I thought maybe I smelled or they were getting ready to flank me from behind. The park also had an Egyptian Goose, it was mentioned in the local paper previosuly and it does look like a cross between a duck and a goose, it was interesting to see. The geese didn’t really accept him, when he was getting closer for some bread one charged at him to keep him away. He hung out with the ducks and the goose with the broken wing.

We took a less direct route home when we done at the park, I have never really been in the part of Preston on the far side of King St, there was some nice houses there with some big empty parks which mostly consisted of nothing. We than came across what I believe is Cambridge’s most central sewage treatment plant. It smelled terribly and that smell lingered around the entire area, I think it is still in my clothes. I don’t understand how some real estate developers could build houses so close to the place. There was houses across the street from it. The whole area actually is a fairly densely populated area, there isn’t really anything commercial or industrial near by. I’m sure the 33 degree heat wasn’t helping, at least it wasn’t hotter.

The A&P didn’t have the Nigri Sushi Combo, they did have maki with just fish though, no veggies so at least that is good. Oh yeah the Korean food place by Laurier didn’t have the Salmon Maki and I was reluctant to get the Ell since everywhere that I have had ell tended to either BBQ it or Fry it or something it just tasted kind of skinny and weird, not smooth at all but this place made it so tastey, it wasn’t cooked at all, yay!. It was so fresh and delicious.

It is about 10.30 now, I am going to bed, I’ll post pictures tomorrow, now it is time for sleep..

Kathy and I left on our trip to London on Thursday. We arrived there just as it was getting dark and almost immediately I did the dumbest thing, walked away from the bus stop that I knew would take us to Western. Accoding to the maps fron London Transit it appeared that there was a bus terminal downtown and I though it’d be a good idea to get to it so we can get some transit maps and make sure we were going where we wanted to. We wandered, got lost and I got very annoyed. It was so humid as well, all I wanted to do was sit down and have some ice cream. We wandered over by the river behind a museum but we didn’t stay there long, I was eager to find the damn bus again. We did find it eventually after figuring out that we were not at a walking distance to Western. The bus ride was OK, we did get off on the wrong stop since in the afternoon the bus takes a different course through the school. Western doesn’t have maps around campus showing where you are relative to other buildings, WLU has many of them and it is on one block, I only saw two at Western.

The campus was nice, not as big as I was expecting and it has a lot of neat stuff like $4 movies at their cinema. On Friday we wandered around campus trying to figure out where stuff was and some other prep investigation stuff for kathy, she should have fun there, enough building have cold A/C so it should be good. Saturday we went to the malls of the city and walked from a park back to Western, that was quite a trip. The river looked pretty and there were plenty of people fishing.

We switched our tickets early to get out of London since we were kind of done with the city and didn’t want to carry a full backpack throughout it.

We stayed at the Western Hotel which seemed to be the only hotel at that part of the city. We stayed in an apt style res and actually had to stay with two other people, which kind of sucked. It was so hot I wish I could have strolled around nude in there. Damn old people, I don’t know why they were staying there, we didn’t really talk to them. The building was made in 99 and kind of sucked, it looked very student housing except for the kitchen. The stuff they provided in the hotel was pretty ghetto, a bed that felt like it was a plastic egg or something, if you got near the edge it felt like you were going to just roll off. It made sleep pretty uncomfortable. The shower curtain wasn’t as big as the opening of the shower so we couldn’t get very wet and wild. The cabinet under the sink has the insulation exposed and later in the trip we believe the mouse that was in the bathroom came from there.

Kitty missed me, he meowed a lot. Last night he slept right beside my chest, I think he wanted to make sure Trixie wasn’t coming back and to make sure I was still here. Poor little guy. Tom hissed at him all weekend, he has had nothing but hissing cats for over 2 weeks now. Henry played with him though.

I’m sleepy now, I wonder if Kitty will continue to sleep by me or if he will go by my feet.

It couldn’t have been more exciting unless I found a three chambered peanut.

I played a bit of Batlion Wars for Gamecube, it is loosely based on Advanced Wars, it is a little awkward to control or to tell troops to retreat.

Kathy and I took the inflatable raft out on the Grand River for a trip, after a few missteps we got out there. One of the missteps included me falling into the river. The raft is a real pain in the ass to row with two oars at once. We did make some good time when we each picked a paddle and a side but we never did travel too far. When we started getting out in the open more closer to the hospital the wind began to pick up and we couldn’t keep going forward so we let the current take us back. There was some cute baby ducks swimming about just following mama when she stopped to eat they went under the water. Also saw a weasel running along the shore. It was pretty. There was also a couple of fishies that jumped in the air during our trip. We also got to see a furry log, but that might have been something else. The people at the rowing club in Cambridge can really move.

Overall the trip wasn’t the greatest, the raft which said it can hold 4 people really can only hold two so there wasn’t really room to carry anything or have space to stretch out. It also wasn’t set up well to row, the bits that the oars go through are too far forward and were constantly hitting my knees. We ended up taking it home and cleaning it up and drying it off and returning it. The picture on the box showed 4 people and everything on it, oh well.

Trixie is still having a hard time adjusting to living here, she doesn’t like kitty and growls and hisses whenever she comes close. She also doesn’t seem to want to walk past him. I had to bring her litter upstairs again so there is a greater chance she can get some privacy to use it. She did pee beside the bed the other day and I discovered today that she pooped in the corner in the main room. There was also a small spot in the middle of the floor as well as a bigger spot on my parent’s white sofa that is the fancy kind that you can’t sit on. According to her poop in the corner and her litter box it is a bit on the leaky side. : /

I picked up Kitty and placed him on the bed near Trixie she growled but didn’t do much else eventually she lied down but wasn’t happy about it. Anytime I or Kitty moved she would look and growl a bit.

Oh well my day off work was enjoyable, I hope I didn’t miss much. The place across from BK had some really big fireworks, I can’t find any pictues though. My last set was neat though.

At least I didn’t get burnt by the sun.

The house looks pretty much the same, just matter of moving some papers around and clearing out the main hallway. Trixie gets to visit, poor old kitty I hope the ride over for her won’t be too rough, I’m not even sure if I’ll be able to pick her up, her whole body is usually sore and aches and it may hurt. Right now instead of buying ice I am freezing some pop bottles full of water intending to crack them open later and use them for ice. I’m so cheap.

Kathy and I didn’t go canoeing on Saturday since we really would have no clue on how to get back in if it flipped in the middle of the river. So Sunday we were going to get up early and go fish but Kathy needed some sleep, her sister was actually online so she spent some time late at night talking with her. I didn’t have the heart to wake her. We travelled around a bit looking for something to keep kitty in the yard so he doesn’t go out any more on midnight adventures. The only solutions were kind of expensive, especially since he can squeeze through a lot. Chicken wire was the most economical way but very ugly. Finished touring the Sam’s Club and well it kind of sucks, the best deal I saw was a 6 pack of chilli for 8 or 9 dollars. Next was cheese except that amount of cheese would have gone bad on us. It is kind of funny, the chilli was Stagg’s Chilli and than for the part that they say what flavour it is, they call it private reserve. So classy I know, nothing like having your very own mass produced and cheaply sold private reserve, I bet it is made with primates. I found the selection really limited and bland.

Afterwards we went to Staples and than Canadian Tire. We parked at Staples and than walked towards the Canadian Tire which was way across the power centre. We got a 10 dollar card from there on Saturday so we went and wanted to be good consumers and use the 10$. It turns out that there is date restrictions so it will be a little bit until we can use it, we did get a raft though. Some lady took another one that looked a little bit more interesting but oh well. So we walked with the raft in a tiny half cart all they way across back to the car, I felt guilty driving to Staples already from across the street.

We drove around during the day to the other Canadian Tire to see if they had a better selection, they didn’t but they had mini model tents, they were pretty cute. The Fish and chips place was closed for lunch so we got cheese at Camissio’s and ran into Dave’s brother, it took me a bit to figure out who he was, I never did see or talk to him much when I spent a lot of time with Dave and it has been about 2 or 3 years I guess. We stopped by the canoe launch on the Grand by the GTO gas bar and than at the other one I guess that is River Bluffs, just to scout the area so we’d know what we were getting ourselves into. While at home getting lunch we realized we didn’t have a pump for the raft. I was thinking another 60 or so would have to be thrown down for a portable one, luckily Kathy remembered that I had the pump for the air mattress and wondered about the price for those car starter things since they come with plugs to use. My pump was house powered, from there we remembered the power inverters. I got the cheap one and than quickly realized that it wouldn’t fit into my cigarette lighter because of how mine is molded into the car. Good thing I tried it out before leaving, so we got an extention for it.

Went off to get Kathy’s fishing license renewed and found out that place closed at 2, went to the boat place and got everything plugged together and than I turned on the power, it lasted about a second. I found out that the thing didn’t fit in the dash originally because I was going to plug it all together there to see if it would work. I didn’t try that when I actually could in the parking lot of the store, So back I went, got a more powerful one which did work. Unfortunately by this time I was just tired and frustrated and very cranky. There was still enough light but it just didn’t seem meant to be. We are going to try and do this Friday on my day off. Yesterday it showed no rain in the forcast, todayy there is rain clouds for every day that it is forecasted. Sigh.

Twice yesterday he ran from behind me to get outside, fucking cat. The second time was around 10 at night so I was out there trying to get him in with a flashlight and a hose. The neighbours were watching me from their upstairs window thinking I was a prowler. Kathy went to bed way later than me, poor sleepy head. We didn’t go canoeing since Kathy brought up a very good point, we have no idea how to get back in if we fall out in the middle of the river. We might get an inflatable raft instead and try that instead.

At some point I ahve to check around for some sort of wires and such to block up any kind of escape for the cat to keep him in the yard. I got a temp membership at Sam’s Club to see what it is all about, so far I didn’t go through the whole place but I don’t see the appeal. A third of the store has pet food and a lot of weird odds and ends. I guess the food section is suppose to be better, we only got a little through it but I didn’t see anything that great yet. I don’t get how they can say they sell in bulk when most of the stuff is in single servings, they sell stereos and such one at a time, same with their very shitty and limited selection of music and movies. The laundry soap wasn’t in a packaging too much bigger than what you can normally get. The chips look impressive but that is it, they are way more than half full of air. Quick tip a chip weighs a gram, now you know how many chips are in a bag. The BBQ they sell in ones and were bloody expensive. The Home Depot looked pretty fancy and had a full Harvey’s. Oh well.