I can’t edit old posts. I still have a bunch from when I ported over the old Blogger posts which need to be titled and categoried. Don’t tell me closing comments closes editing too?
Looks like it but have a fix sortof, ok a way to edit posts… phpMyAdmin. That works, already tested it.
Still trying to work out the category thing in phpMyAdmin and haven’t been able to reverse the damage. Just remember if you use that plugin, it closes everything.
Lair is making a meme of this so why not…
Presenting how to annoy a cat.
1. Alarm Clock- If one of the cats is napping during the day, I’ll look at him/her and yell, “Hey! HEY! PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEE! YOO HOO! MR SLEEPYPANTS! WAKE UP!” When they give me the look of death, I simply say, “Payback’s a bitch, ain’t it?”
Like my alarm clock would have any effect with Ritzi flinging herself at my door and the whole lot of them piled up against my door making all the racket they can to wake me providing I have it set to the AM which is rare. Any time I am awake and am in range of them, they are all begging and making for the kitchen. They have to be really full of the choicest pate for that (my yelling at them) to work.
2. Play Time- Most cats HATE this. If they’re bugging you for attention, just start tickling their feet, their belly, or whatever annoys them the most. They’ll leave you alone, even if it takes a few times.
Meowza loves belly rubs, Krissie will take anything. The rest, that works.
3. Make annoying noises- Similar to #1, only this time, your goal is to get their ears to flatten. Usually a “YIYIYIYIYIYI” or a sound like a school bus’s brakes “Psssshhh” will do the trick. Not too loud; don’t want to bust Kitty’s eardrums. Just enough to annoy the shit out of them and make them glare at you. Extra points if you can keep them from running away, but still make them seriously annoyed.
Run away! Run away! Oh, it’s such fun to make them run away. Works for just about everybody except Krissie and nothing makes her run away when she wants attention which is always. Did I mention she’s a lush? Well she is. Klarissa and Jezebel are easily spooked too, so much fun to watch.
4. Play Cat- See what happens if you start swatting and hissing at your cats. This is especially fun if they’ve just swatted at you. Get down on all fours and jump out at them when they round a corner. Wiggle your butt and chase them around the house. If anything, you’ll get plenty of exercise.
They think that’s fun especially the boys. I usually end up shredded, no thanks.
5. Kitty Theme Song- Make up a theme song for your cat and sing it to him every chance you get. If this doesn’t faze him, try picking him up and making him dance while you sing the song. Bonus points if it rhymes and if you have more than one song.
I haven’t tried this but they are probably getting tired of my saying, “Ooo, you guys are so cute.” I am concerned they think that’s their names.
6. No More Curious Cat- Tired of the little bugger running into every closet or room that he’s not allowed in and spending 15 minutes trying to get him out of the room? Simply close the door on him. After 5 or 10 minutes he’ll let you know that he is NOT happy with being shut up and will gladly leave the room. Just don’t forget he’s in there, and don’t try this if there is something dangerous for kitty to get into.
Works great when they run out into the garage, lots to explore but terribly hot. I do do this for other rooms where it is safer to leave them shut in. I don’t do this for Krissie, not cause I want her constant attention, but she isn’t loud enough to make herself known unless she farts.
7. Baby Cat- If they are really annoying you for affection, sweep them up and cradle them like you would a baby. This is especially effective if they hate being held. Start cooing at them and calling them “cranky baby.” Bonus points if you can swaddle them in a blanket and do this (particularly effective for keeping kitty’s claws at bay)
Krissie, the lush, loves this. Klarissa is used to being the baby but she has fast feet and isn’t into bundling. Psycho Cat attacks when picked up. It must be mentioned most of the times she is picked up is cause she escaped and we caught her and brought her back in the house hence her combativeness. It’s either that or she’s totally insane. She is only friendly when she is most dangerous and then she only wants to play with the boy kitties, well supposed to. She’ll rub up against anybody.
8. Paparrazi- Follow him everywhere he goes with the camera and snap photos at every opportunity. Use the flash to get maximum annoyance. Especially effective when he is trying to sleep or wash himself.
1800 plus pictures of the cats and we have a few posers. It’s really bad when they don’t even bliink at the flash.
9. Copycat- If your cat keeping meowing (or crackling noises due to utter annoyance), just respond in kind. He meows, you meow the exact same way back at him. He’ll eventually get even more annoyed and leave the room.
As long as they understand me, meow means no canned kitty food, fine. That works.
10. Hairy Cat- If he flops all over you and gets fur all in your face, then try to use his belly as a pillow (lay lightly on him, of course) when he sleeps, and put your hair in his face. The longer the hair and the fatter the cat, the better.
Krissie doesn’t mind providing she doesn’t use my face as a pillow. Course, she only has to get near me to get hair all over me. Meowza is on his way to becoming another Edloe size wise and is the up and coming candidate for that honor.
As I am doing laundry, my thoughts are naturally turning to cooler weather, something which I eagerly look forward to. Couple thoughts, when it gets really cold, can people in France (not that I plan going over there) wear a headscarf? Guess not. From Bloomberg is this bit of info on what to wear when travelling over there.
France said it will maintain its law banning Muslim scarves and other signs of religious belief in state schools, rejecting a demand for its revocation by the Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters.The law, which comes into force with the beginning of the new school year on Thursday, “will be applied because it’s the law,” government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope, who’s also a junior interior minister, said on Canal Plus television.
A group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq seized Christian Chesnot of Radio France Internationale and Georges Malbrunot of the daily Le Figaro and RTL radio on Aug. 20. France opposed last year’s U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
So for those of you who have designer scarves, Ungaro, Gucci, Dior, etc., don’t wear them on your head. Wear a hat instead.
I still can’t believe it, the French didn’t cave. Bye bye journalists. You will so die. Dead pool anyone?
Please ignore.
OK, didn’t get the errors posting after disabling autoclose-comments. Not to see if I get errors on edit.
Interesting, comments still closed on old posts, nice.
To the 8/30 nighly, took all of 5 minutes to upload the proper files and run upgrade.php.
Witty text works.
Autoclose comments works. Note I hadn’t tried it since I first installed it and it didn’t work so this is a first. No more Tramadol man.
Search Hilite still doesn’t work.
Useronline still doesn’twork.
That’s as far as I’ve got testing, must go eat and feed cats, not necessarily in that order.
Update: When I posted this I got a crapload of errors so the autoclose comments might not work quite perfectly.
Not just that nothing works right, it’s my own fault for upgrading.
But nothing works.
Take my feet for instance, they have been hurting for a week now, walking’s a real pain. And it’s just nerve pain too. Bah! Not that I’m not having nerve pain down my whole leg either, I am, worse than when I had the herniated disc. Course a friend brought up the possibility it is my back. Could be. Could be both and only a few MRI’s will tell.
Anyway, back to the nothing working, I’m in the same situation as when the trackbacks didn’t work, got to keep upgrading til it works again. Depending on how ambitious I feel, might be soon, might be a little while. But I will get this fixed.
I was so frustrated I even looked at the competition, b2evo. Looked to be a nightmare to set up and skin so that’s out. Not even trying.
GAME BOY:: Nintendo
Biopsy:: brain, the only sure way to tell
Attack:: terrorist
Convention:: RNC
Jewels:: stolen
Genetics:: testing
Impostor:: fraud
Doug:: old cartoon on Nickelodeon
Arbitrary:: decision
Oscillate:: nystagmus
The latest Carnival of the Cats is up at Watermark and it’s filled with tons of kitty goodness.
Matt’s version of Staticize, either it works or the blog goes boom.
Or (and I wasn’t prepared for this option) absolutely nothing happened.
Search Hilite doesn’t work.
Witty text doesn’t work.
Useronline doesn’twork.
And the LJ Plugins are generating a crapload of errors, guess I’ll have to deactivate those too.
Hint: Don’t upgrade to the latest nightly unless you want to go bananas.
And think I’ve dealt with most of the fatal errors. Now to reactivate plugins, it automatically deactivated them. And having done such, got fatal errors when calling a function handled by a plugin. I need to fix all the skins so some may look wonky in the footer til I do.
Noticed admin screen changed. Overlaying the WordPress is Mind of Mog, messy. And at the bottom is a Get FireFox button. And there’s something now called a Dashboard. Must take a looksee.
Update: That resolved so just have Mind of Mog where WordPress used to be. Only improvement in the admin screen that I can see is the FireFox button. As it had been a month since I had upgraded, I expected more.
Trying to deal with the new WP beta as the index page is broken up into header, index, and footer. One problem I’ve noted is it won’t work with my current layout for single posts, different footer. Not sure if just making a new include will work or not. I can use my plain old index page with some changes. Thinking…
Solution, checked Kubrick and lo and behold, it used the includes and had different pages to boot. Trick is, of course, to include the right stuff. Don’t want to get that complicated thou. Anyway, figured out where that idea came from.
Food, yummy, delicious food, now that’s a Carnival I can follow. Lots of yummy linky love quite literally.
Warning: Page is huge cause it has pics which might tempt the hungry (which I am at the moment).
Thanks Jay for the hat tip. Must. Exercise. More.
Vinny over at Insignificant Thoughts is riding for MS come October. It’s a good cause, one near and dear to me for obvious and very selfish reasons. So help him out if you can.
Thanks Sweet N Sassy for the link as sometimes I am a bit slow in my blog surfing.
Those last two posts, I went to Bath and Body Works and treated myself and my kid to some soothing goodies.
Then I came home and pet the kitties, always a soothing treat when they are well behaved ie allow themselves to be petted. Krissie always allows herself to be petted as she is a lush. Meowza, pictured here, was equally receptive today to some loving.
Checking out the research for MS in my area. All of them are at the BNI where my doc (and many wonderful people) is and, unfortunately, I am too old for all but two and one I don’t qualify for. Rats.
But the one I may qualify for, maybe, is this one for Fampridine SR which just may be very helpful if I can get in the trial and I don’t get the placebo, big ifs.
Why does this interest me? Cause of my getting weaker which I find very annoying. Least I don’t have her problem, stuck caring for a sick relative with no respite. That I couldn’t do. Mind you I don’t let the MS stop me from enjoying life’s little pleasures, just have to alter what I enjoy right now.
Come to think of it, I am pretty lucky to have the one doc in Arizona that is doing research in MS.
Work, pain in the butt - literally - L5 level, sharp, stabbing pain shooting down my leg, said leg being rather numb. Numb and pain go together and sometimes, like today, the pain is intolerable.
So I’m off to sleep, sleep tight and don’t let the swiftboats bite, heh.
What is Lair blogging about? What spy? Where? For who is he spying? He is being so cryptic. OK, the Command Post has the scoop. Ah it’s someone spying on the U.S. for Israel, no wonder Lair was being so cryptic.
Not that it seemed to have helped Israel much if true. See, Israel guesstimates Iran will have nuclear weapons in 2008 whereas the U.S. guesstimates Iran will have a nuclear arsenal by 2007, a whole year sooner and a whole lot more bombs. See WND for that whole story. What gets me is this:
Bolton said Tehran has told Britain, France and Germany that Iran could enrich enough uranium for a nuclear weapon within a year. The undersecretary did not elaborate, but the U.S. intelligence community believes Iran could assemble a nuclear arsenal by 2007.
Why would Tehran tell Britain that? France and Germany sure, they are known enemies but Britain? Methinks they may just be a bit less our friends than they lead us to believe. This bears watching.
Especially since Iran, unlike the U.S.S.R. of old, would have no scruples about using said nuclear arsenal.
Don’t expect Israel to wait for the U.S. to give the green light for it to strike/defend itself especially if Kerry gets elected. Cause with Kerry, it won’t happen.
Lair likes to collect cat pics for his wallpaper so…
And check this out, lots of kitty blog links. Must update blogroll.
In Camino, font is small while, in FireFox, font is huge. Used to typing with small fonts but this may be an advantage when I can’t see so well. Camino appears to be the fastest so far. Safari is fast when you first open it but after opening 20+ tabs and 5+ windows, some with 10+ tabs each, inexplicably Safari slows down.
Tried the speed test in Firefox, the one Jay had linked. It said page done but never gave results. Maybe I’m missing a plugin. Camino beat Safari here too. At my limit so I’ll have to find a different speed test.
At least this version of FireFox works, previous one I downloaded never would open. And surprise, I can run two Gecko based browsers at once without one crashing. That’s a first. Still, Safari (especially after adding the Saft plugin) and Camino are my favorites. Saft makes Safari the hands down favorite. Reminds me, time for a new OmniWeb beta.
This is troubling. Quoting CNN:
Traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of one of the two Russian passenger jets which crashed Tuesday, killing 89 people aboard, Russia’s top intelligence agency says.…The Federal Security Service (FSB) said the explosive traces were found in the wreckage of the Siberia Airlines Tupelov 154 — the second plane that crashed.
A hijack alert on the aircraft had been activated before it crashed, killing all 46 on board, Siberia Airlines said on its Web site. The aircraft was bound for the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The FSB also said it had found data at the Siberia Airlines crash site that could enable them to identify suspects involved in the attack.
The article goes on to state how a Chechyn passenger (two Muslim women according to FoxNews) was not accounted for. From Chechnya where there is soon to be an election. And, no surprise here, Islamists are now claiming credit. OK, that’s two terrorist attacks preceeding elections. Will see if this one works. Expect if it does, we will see more.
I was so tired last night think I fell asleep eightish. Overslept and now have one nifty headache. Noticed vision was a bit sparkly, a migraine perhaps or just the combination of the MS plus a headache. Suffice it to say I haven’t been doing much.
I did hopefully fix the .htaccess and robots.txt files so Kinja works. Joined too to see what it was all about. Ah, it works as a newsreader excerpting the latest posts from the sites I added. Hmm, got a newsreader and rarely use it. Why one might ask? Well, I like looking at the pretty sites, the graphics, the images seared - seared - in me.
Not. One. Cat. How disappointing.
Pictured all the bloggers going to the Con with an accompaning blurb so you know what they are focusing on.
And a website just for them. Thanks Lisa for the tip. Might not have found those links otherwise. I did know who was going and would have just visited the individual sites.
Provided I had the time, won’t be around much next week if things go right. And no, I’m not going there.
Update: Added the blogroll at the bottom there, no pic as I have too much in the menu as it is.
In the really important (and very furry) news department, Fraggle Rock is now out on DVD.
Don’t they look cute and so pettable. Just in time to avoid being clawed, Lair has compiled expert instructions on how to hug a cat without getting shredded. I really need to pay more attention cause I am always getting clawed. Sit on sofa, Meowza shreds my back and Bazel uses my leg as a scratching post. Sit on sofa with food, let’s not go there.
Jana relates a harrowing tale involving a dentist. Reminds me, cats need to visit the vet.
In a world where watching the news is so depressing, Athenamama found a bright spot, a kind soul that took in a small furry bundle of love. Gotta admit they look so cute, so irresistable.
It was back to school for me today. Well, a class anyway. I’m back from the first day which went very well - translation, among other stuff, I aced one test, still have another to take. And I still remembered how to do stuff. Memory is not toast. Book is thicker too, three times as thick as the old book. Ok, it’s been a very long time since I took the course. Expect the next test to be harder so may just spend the rest of the day studying as opposed to blogging.
I was quite happy my MS didn’t act up too much, just some ataxia. Credit fervent prayer and really cold rooms for that. Actually, I was more worried about that than anything. But so far, doing ok. I just may make it ok. Kindof nice to not be thinking Avonex, Betaseron, Copaxone when doing my ABC’s.
167 deleted and all of them druggies, must be Democrats ha. No Rush from those drugs, just one fast delete. And from one of the deleted comments by the Tramadol spammer, this quote.
“You’ve heard Al Gore say he invented the Internet. Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with ‘W’?”
Bet that was Bush’s fault too. And that brings me to the point, today is the very last Wictory Wednesday where we can volunteer and/or donate to the Bush campaign. In case you had any doubts, this quote of Kerry’s in the N.Y.Times.
The candidates’ fitness to be commander in chief erupted again even as Kerry headed to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to tell voters he could produce better, higher-paying jobs from the White House than President Bush has and improve the lives of the middle class.“The truth, which is what elections are all about, is that the tax burden of the middle class has gone up while the tax burden of the middle class has gone down,” he said.
Well, my tax burden went down, and my income went up. I know that was Bush’s fault and that’s just the way I like it. (more…)
Some amusement from this article sitting quietly in my dock. It’s a Brit thing written by one Mark Steyn. He writes:
I said a couple of weeks back that John Kerry was too strange to be President, and a week or two earlier that he was too stuck-up to be President. Since I’m on an alliterative roll, let me add that he’s too stupid to be President. What sort of idiot would make the centrepiece of his presidential campaign four months of proud service in a war he’s best known for opposing?
I like it, strange, stuck up and stupid. It fits. My favorite quote is this one.
How cocooned from reality do you have to be to think you can transform one of the most divisive periods in American history - in which you were largely responsible for much of the divisiveness - into a sappy, happy-clappy, soft-focus patriotic blur without anybody objecting? Most Vietnam veterans of my acquaintance loathe John Kerry, and, if he wasn’t aware of that, he’s too out of it to be President.
Gotta wonder if he’s really that stupid or Hillary is somehow behind this. Lisa has her own favorite quote. Read it. Think, ponder on such unponderables as flower powered zipper pulls and bunny suits. Wait, he is that stupid.
Crashed. According to the Herald Sun:
Tass news agency reports a second plane crash in Russia, saying two occurred almost simultaneously.
And according to FoxNews, President Vladimir Putin has called on the Federal Security Service to investigate.
Naturally there is a question of terrorism as there is an upcoming election in Chechnya. Worked for Spain. May work for the U.S..
Thinking I’ll get back to the things that matter like being able to walk. Need to walk two more days cause I have a class to attend. After that, I can crumple in a heap on the floor.
Yes, it’s getting that bad.
Not going to be like Michele who’s giving herself one fine birthday present. Hope it’s happy. Or who’s that person that’s always quitting…
Rachel Lucas I do believe. I will lounge on the sofa and cat blog. I can do that.
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