The expansion deck does not include your card CB. I have seen the original, hand drawn Matt Inman deck. 20 cards. All gloeious.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-06T22:48:11-04:00
At least now, having given up on life, I can relax by playing Mount&Blade while listening to Welcome to Night Vale podcasts.
I am seriously close to dropping everything and becoming a history or medieval/rennaisance studies major. In fact, why not both?! Oh yeah; there's no money in it. It'd be amazing if I could even get a job with that. Maybe I could make a youtube channel where I pretend to know what I'm doing.
Powers of Tesla 2016-04-06T22:53:43-04:00
Only if you go all the way to a PhD. Zem, and then only if you want to teach or do research that will never pay you a serious living wage.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-06T23:17:22-04:00
Haha, I never even drank a single sip of my coffee this whole time! I just have a cold cup of coffee on my desk.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-06T23:18:18-04:00
Ph. D.'s are all completely underpaid, and I hate teaching and suck at it and would never subject entire classes of poor students to that. So... yeah, no.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-07T00:52:57-04:00
Ooh, according to Google, it's Ravi Shankar's 96th birthday! Next you know he'll join the list of dead singers/famous people this year! ;)
But really, though, he lived for freaking ever. Almost as long as Jack Lalanne, a guy who died about the same time and I thought would live forever as well. But not because he's a vampire like Ozzy Osbourne or (possibly) Mick Jagger, he'd just exercise his way to infinity.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-07T09:09:15-04:00
Good morning kittens!
Iron Maiden tomorrow!!!
Mike Kabala 2016-04-07T09:36:17-04:00
Morning kittens. I love that I can get to this page by going to Games sorted by Most Funded. :-) This is the best Kickstarter I've ever been a part of and I've backed over 100.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-07T09:37:07-04:00
@CB, here here, I second that for sure, never met a better group of people on line, KC ftw!
Mike Kabala 2016-04-07T09:48:36-04:00
It was such a culture-shift for me that I tend to be the guy who posts way too often on other Kickstarters trying to get an active conversation started. I think people on those other campaigns wish I would just shut up.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-07T10:00:48-04:00
I did that on another campaign and noticed I had to reel it back because the average post by most of the common commenters was once per day or so, so I commented a couple times per day to make up for their slack. This was a perfect introdction to Kickstarter for me!
In regards to the comment sections, I tend to only chat here really...usually try and give information on other ones, but mostly here.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-07T13:07:26-04:00
I'm not part of many others, so I'm never really on them to chat.
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Wait... nothing all morning? Are you all being kind to me and leaving the comment storm until this evening when (I hope) I'll be around to read them and participate? Aaw, you're all so nice!
Too nice...
It's kind of a somber mood around the office this afternoon. 15 more people company wide...laid off. =/
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-07T18:00:22-04:00
Good, how are you? And do you know what happened to everyone today? Did a nuke go off in calgary? And Geist was already there? That's the only explanation I can think of that means none of them would be around today.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-07T18:00:54-04:00
Yay, GM survived the blast! Let's send a search and rescue for BaKhan and Geist.
@Creeper: Not anyone I was really close to aside from the other payroll coordinator, just people that I interacted with on a regular basis, some of the field guys.
Probably one of the safest, since I handle the entire US payroll pretty much single handed. The only difficulty will be when I have to do the big US and possibly the Canadian hourly at the same time.
That being said, nobody can really guarantee anything. This is the fifth round of job cuts, and after each of the previous ones they had said "This is it, no more". Unfortunately, since we are an oilfield specialized trucking company...we are hit pretty hard.
Any news on your jacket? I really hate how the creators never really apologize. They have their reasons/excuses, which I'm sure are legitimate... But they never *quite* seem to acknowledge the anger with the backers...
No, nothing on the jacket front. There are now two people in Calgary the received theirs. Mine could potentially be at home right now, but I won't know until sometime later tonight(going out to a movie, then dinner, with the friend I went to Vegas with...now, if only we each had a girlfriend life would be better)
But I'm going to head out now, since I do have that movie to get to. I'll be back on tomorrow.
Powers of Tesla 2016-04-07T18:36:42-04:00
Hey gang. Anyone here?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-07T18:52:03-04:00
Yeah, PoT. In fact, nobody was all today until now! You guys really did just wait for when I was available! Aw shucks!
Powers of Tesla 2016-04-07T19:14:16-04:00
My pleasure Zem. :)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-07T19:52:06-04:00
Evening kittens. Spent the day at home in bed getting over my stomach troubles. Watched "Cloverfield" for the first time. Interesting movie. Not worth watching more than once so I will probably give it away.
Lots of rain today and I hear we might get snow this Sunday. It is apparent that Old Man Winter has locked Mother Nature in the bathroom and we need to rescue her.
She's letting me touch her more. I cleaned her eye, found two small holes beneath it that look like claw marks. I'm guessing cat fight, she got an infection. The holes were draining so much. Put hyrdogen peroxide on them, saline soaked cotton ball in nose, hot water bottle, arnica in water fed through syringe.... *sigh*
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-07T23:16:15-04:00
Geist, that just sounds like a plot to a terrible but awesome cult classic 80s action movie.
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Aaw, I don't want Scrunchie to go! Though I've had 2 cats in similar situations... not turn out so well, but I feel like she's pulling through. Is it really that serious now? I hope not. I'd rather take her to a vet to get some specific antibiotics.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T00:33:10-04:00
I love this song. Just listen to the very end... it's amazing. And yes, I can VERY nearly match that. I've actually scared people with how low my vocal range goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-08T01:13:54-04:00
@Geist, hope you feel better soon! I think Mother Nature is vacationing here it's going to be in high 70s tomorrow!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-08T01:15:20-04:00
@Creeper, I'm so sorry about scrunchie. Do you have any idea how old she is? Do you think she can recover? I really hope so!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T01:17:23-04:00
Like I said, if it's serious enough to consider putting her down, then it's past time to shanghai her to the vet's office for a specific antibiotic.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-08T01:19:04-04:00
@Zem, vets are tres expensive though... And she can barely touch her so there's that too...
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-08T01:21:31-04:00
To all the northern bound kittens, what do you guys think of a day trip to drumheller? If you've never heard of it, the answer should be yes... ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T01:59:46-04:00
Then...
"yes... ;)" I guess.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T03:04:29-04:00
I really, really hope it works out for me to go. I'd be okay with missing a few Physical Chemistry classes to go! (and that's saying something! Not that I'll love P-chem, in fact, I'll love a chance to be able to not drown in it, but that missing it might spell certain doom)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T03:06:16-04:00
Woo! 6 from Dr. P, 72 from LZ! I'd like to blame AZANS and Riddle "Hour" primarily. ;)
LZ's just over 1,000 from Creeper now as well! We've come a long way!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-08T03:08:26-04:00
@BaKhan: send Mother Nature back down to the US. You are already blessed with maple syrup. You can't have both.
And a day trip to Drumheller sounds nice. Count me in.
emmil 2016-04-08T09:52:55-04:00
I bought plastic sleeves for my kittens, and now they don't fit into the box :(.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T09:59:39-04:00
Yeah, emmil, that was a problem we figured would happen since the cards were sent out. Just too bad it works out like that.
You know, the more I look at it after the lay offs yesterday, I won't be able to take any days off past the weekend of October 29/30. At least not until Nov 3/4, possibly. But I should be able to take Oct 27/28 off, since that's a small payroll week, and everything I would need to do would be done by then.
Powers of Tesla 2016-04-08T10:34:16-04:00
G' Mornin' all.
I have been in touch with the coordinator for Gen Con in Indianapolis in early August. Right now they are not looking for volunteers to assist, but they'd like to know if any of us will be there in case they need an extra helping hand (or two).
Does anyone actually plan on attending at this point in time? You will need to pay your own entrance fees.
Hi guys. Thanks for the warm wishes. Scrunchie has drastically dropped in health. And today she actually tried to lay on my lap. She is skin and bones. She won't eat, and I've been giving her pedialyte fluids via syringe. I very much wish she would let go. She can't hardly stand. I don't want her to be scared in a carrier and at the vet, but I also can't afford a house call. This sucks. Do I just stop giving her fluids?
This just haaaad to be the month where I paid all of my rent (instead of split with roommate). It has thrown me off so bad. Imagine paying double the rent you normally would... And this is NYC rent.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-08T11:27:10-04:00
I am so sorry Creeper. I know from personal experience how hard it is to see a kitty failing in health. It's hard for me to read your post without having tears spring up.
I'm waiting on a few responses. Seems like $150-$200. And sorry to be the Debbie downer. I wanna keep the convo cheerful and fun! But my coworkers already think of me as the crazy cat lady. Don't have many people to talk to about why I'm letting a sick backyard kitty hole up in my room.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-08T11:59:52-04:00
Creeper, You can can about anything in here. I'd be happy to send a donation. If nothing else, so Scrunchie can be at peace.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T12:00:08-04:00
This Scrunchie talk reminds me of GIR. Except he didn't have wounds; he was just skin and bone at the end.
Well, I just moved her to the hot water bottle- and what I thought was clumped up dirty fur on her head (been trying to gently clean it the past few days) actually burst. It was *not* pretty and did not smell nice. But I think it gave her relief. I put some hydrogen peroxide on it, and fizzzzzed! She seemed more aware. Held her head up and drank more tuna water with pedialyte. She's asleep in the other room now. I showered and Leo is desperate for attention.
And Geist- that's very sweet of you to offer. I feel so so strange asking for money or taking it. But I may need to take you up on it. Going to contact two more places today and see what their rate is. I can't do much more of this, and neither can she. Honestly, I was hoping she was pass overnight, but like all scrappy backyard kitties- they're fighters.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-08T12:41:53-04:00
Holy *bleep*! If it wasn't red, it must of been puss which means she has a serious infection. I'm glad she it taking a little nourishment. She knows that you are her friend and mean her no harm.
The offer still stands if you need it Creeper. KITTY FRIENDS UNITE!
my heart just broke. I peeked in on her, and she moved off of the hot water bottle and onto my clothes. I took them off in there because I'm trying to be careful about infecting leo, especially since i was holding her for so long. Baby girl!! she was laying on top of them. I just whimpered.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-08T12:56:35-04:00
Your smell means comfort to her at this point. At least she is getting some help. If she was anywhere else, no one would care and she wouldn't even be getting this little bit of comfort.
making me cry! ....I'm still searching for a service. The only ones i"ve found are $300. -__- I mean, I get it. They come to your home and do this. It is a big service... but stiiiiillll
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T13:19:35-04:00
Just thought I'd repost this; I had a fun night, this was interesting, and like no one was around:
I love this song. Just listen to the very end... it's amazing. And yes, I can VERY nearly match that. I've actually scared people with how low my vocal range goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T13:26:03-04:00
Aaw, I've had 2 cats go through something similar... I remember it's not very pleasant at all. The second time, I nearly begged my mom to take him to the vet, but she didn't until we already thought it was too late, but he moved a little. He didn't even make it through the car ride to the vet. The only thing worse than losing a beloved pet (like poor little Jean Claude Philippe Jacques Perez) is knowing you had a chance to help them before it was too late. That was why I kept telling you to bring her to the vet for specific help; we all know full well what it's like and don't want you to have to go through it with Scrunchie.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T13:48:28-04:00
The part of that story that added insult to injury is that the momma cat, one of my favorites, Freija, left soon after because we gave away her other 3 kittens and then cute lil' JC went through that, so she was left only with Marble, our older cat who just passed last winter, and who really didn't like any other cats who might try to encroach on her territory, so Freija ran away and I haven't seen her since. That whole thing was just a debacle.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T13:49:41-04:00
*note: we gave the other 3 kittens away before that happened to JC. We're not so cruel as to separate them after that kind of thing already happened to one.
Mike Kabala 2016-04-08T13:56:19-04:00
Sorry to hear that about Scrunchie. When we put Scoobee Dew to sleep, he was still well enough to walk into the clinic on his own four legs. We knew that he might last for weeks or months, but we didn't want to have his last days filled with suffering. It was very hard to see him go. I hope Scrunchie is at peace soon.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-08T13:57:47-04:00
@Creeper, I feel so bad for you and scrunchie. You are doing more for her then anyone probably ever has. Sometimes compassion is the only thing we can give, and I have to believe that is enough. If she is at the end, that's all that can really be done anyways. I know it isn't easy, peace Creeper.
Thanks guys. She's such a little fighter. I keep telling her it's ok to go. She just doesn't understand English! I've emailed about 5 services, and let them know that this is a TNR kitty, and more of a Good Samaritan situation. Hopefully one will help me out. For now she can sleep on my clothes with a hot water bottle and tuna water pedialyte nomz.
Zem- unfortunately, with her being feral- if she's does actually get better, she may revert to previous behavior and not let me touch her. It's hard to administer meds regularly. Also the expense. And I have Leo at the moment and roommate who is kind enough to let Scrunchie stay in her bedroom. I can't provide the care for her if she was able to actually heal. We both also have full time jobs. It's been tough enough keeping Leo separate and constantly cleaning to prevent any passing of infection. If I lived alone and didn't have Leo, it's something I would have probably done when she showed up. But sometimes it's just best for a fur baby to help them no longer suffer. She came back for comfort and safety. It's all I can do.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T14:24:06-04:00
Poor kitty. It's always terrible when this kind of thing happens, and after the whole thing with JC, I've always felt strongly about helping them early on so it doesn't become serious and lead to this situation. It usually doesn't, but sometimes you can tell it'll go too far.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T14:44:18-04:00
Ok, so apparently someone gave a patient my personal cell phone number. �
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T14:44:46-04:00
That question mark is an angry face emoji.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T14:50:59-04:00
Why... who?! Why would do such a thing?! I'm guessing the reason it's that question mark thing is to censor just how frustrated that angry emoji must be!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T14:53:27-04:00
Also, shouldn't I have gotten some form of notification about play-testing the app beta? It's been awhile now. Did you guys just get emails that let you test the app or what?
Creeper, that is awesome. It's just too bad it couldn't have been under happier circumstances.
Zem, I got an email with the relevant linke about two days after I signed the NDA.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T15:44:27-04:00
You mean the google doc thing? Because otherwise I never even got an NDA. No response after filling out the google doc entry form.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-08T15:56:11-04:00
someone gave a patient my personal cell phone number
Did you ask that person who did it and then, did you rip that person a new one for giving out such personal information?
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T16:23:34-04:00
Geist, I should have, but I couldn't think of how to ask without sounding hostile.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T16:24:58-04:00
Zem, I see. I filled out the Google doc, then it was a few days later that I got the NDA. Perhaps you should email Bella.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-08T16:48:15-04:00
@LZ: "I'm just curious: how did you get my personal phone number?"
That is about as nice a way as I could come up with.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T17:19:52-04:00
If it happens again, I'll probably say that.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T18:04:22-04:00
I'm beginning to feel like a nap god, nap god.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T18:06:21-04:00
So support@explodingkittens.com? Or something else?
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I'm hungry. Hmm... do I want money or Canes? Money or Canes... or maybe Chipotle. Cash, Canes, or Chipotle...
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T18:09:23-04:00
My tummy has issued an edict: "I want chipotle!"
Let it be known that my stomach is more powerful than my brain or even my wallet. Defeated in battle, this day of our lord April the 8th, 2016 years anno domini, at the glorious battle of "I'm hungry, dammit!"
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T18:40:03-04:00
I have 9.63 regrets, yet I think a burrito and chips make up for that.
Why, God?! Why does good food cost money?!
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T19:50:57-04:00
The diamond fell out of my wife's ring last night. We got lucky and found it.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T20:09:42-04:00
That's incredibly lucky! Also still, support@explodingkittens.com for the beta testing thing?
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Also, next semester I'm taking 4 more credit hours, but it seems like half the classes! I won't have a huge-ass block of classes every day and tuesdays won't be 8:30-midnight or more of hell.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T20:11:05-04:00
Woohoo! On the group page, they said the crate crates have shipped! Confirmation emails for all!
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T20:28:34-04:00
Yes, that's the email. What group page?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T22:40:07-04:00
The slack page. I haven't gotten the email, they said on Slack #general
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T22:50:41-04:00
Ok. I had seen that. I wasn't sure if you were on Slack.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T22:51:20-04:00
Weird that you're on Slack but not the beta.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T22:55:48-04:00
Yeah, but remember I didn't have anything with android until I downloaded that emulator a couple days ago.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-08T23:19:37-04:00
Also, I'm not usually on slack, I never check there, but I get an email whenever they tag everyone, so I go check then.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-08T23:39:27-04:00
Right. I just thought they only sent the Slack invites to the beta testers.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-09T00:04:57-04:00
They sent that to everyone in the Crate, didn't they?
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-09T01:25:57-04:00
I guess so
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-09T01:50:19-04:00
Just watched Looney Tunes Back In Action for the first time in like 12 or 13 years, which is surprising since I loved it so much after the few times I saw it then. So many memories from it, but it's also on par with even Spongebob for hidden subtle obscure references and not-so-subtle innuendos! Also Timothy Dalton and Steve Martin.
I love all the sometimes REALLY obscure Warner Bros. references and allusions they had in it.
The expansion deck does not include your card CB. I have seen the original, hand drawn Matt Inman deck. 20 cards. All gloeious.
At least now, having given up on life, I can relax by playing Mount&Blade while listening to Welcome to Night Vale podcasts.
I am seriously close to dropping everything and becoming a history or medieval/rennaisance studies major. In fact, why not both?! Oh yeah; there's no money in it. It'd be amazing if I could even get a job with that. Maybe I could make a youtube channel where I pretend to know what I'm doing.
Only if you go all the way to a PhD. Zem, and then only if you want to teach or do research that will never pay you a serious living wage.
Haha, I never even drank a single sip of my coffee this whole time! I just have a cold cup of coffee on my desk.
Ph. D.'s are all completely underpaid, and I hate teaching and suck at it and would never subject entire classes of poor students to that. So... yeah, no.
Ooh, according to Google, it's Ravi Shankar's 96th birthday! Next you know he'll join the list of dead singers/famous people this year! ;)
But really, though, he lived for freaking ever. Almost as long as Jack Lalanne, a guy who died about the same time and I thought would live forever as well. But not because he's a vampire like Ozzy Osbourne or (possibly) Mick Jagger, he'd just exercise his way to infinity.
Good morning kittens!
Iron Maiden tomorrow!!!
Morning kittens. I love that I can get to this page by going to Games sorted by Most Funded. :-) This is the best Kickstarter I've ever been a part of and I've backed over 100.
@CB, here here, I second that for sure, never met a better group of people on line, KC ftw!
It was such a culture-shift for me that I tend to be the guy who posts way too often on other Kickstarters trying to get an active conversation started. I think people on those other campaigns wish I would just shut up.
I did that on another campaign and noticed I had to reel it back because the average post by most of the common commenters was once per day or so, so I commented a couple times per day to make up for their slack. This was a perfect introdction to Kickstarter for me!
Morning kittens.
In regards to the comment sections, I tend to only chat here really...usually try and give information on other ones, but mostly here.
I'm not part of many others, so I'm never really on them to chat.
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Wait... nothing all morning? Are you all being kind to me and leaving the comment storm until this evening when (I hope) I'll be around to read them and participate? Aaw, you're all so nice!
Too nice...
Wow, I went away for almost 3 hours and nothing happened here. Not overly surprising, since it is Thursday after all.
Yeah, but this is empty by holiday weekend standards!
Hello- how is everyone?
It's kind of a somber mood around the office this afternoon. 15 more people company wide...laid off. =/
Good, how are you? And do you know what happened to everyone today? Did a nuke go off in calgary? And Geist was already there? That's the only explanation I can think of that means none of them would be around today.
Yay, GM survived the blast! Let's send a search and rescue for BaKhan and Geist.
Hey GM - sorry to hear about that. So rough. Any one you're close to?
@Creeper: Not anyone I was really close to aside from the other payroll coordinator, just people that I interacted with on a regular basis, some of the field guys.
Is your job pretty safe?
Probably one of the safest, since I handle the entire US payroll pretty much single handed. The only difficulty will be when I have to do the big US and possibly the Canadian hourly at the same time.
That being said, nobody can really guarantee anything. This is the fifth round of job cuts, and after each of the previous ones they had said "This is it, no more". Unfortunately, since we are an oilfield specialized trucking company...we are hit pretty hard.
Total pros and cons. Eeesh.
Any news on your jacket? I really hate how the creators never really apologize. They have their reasons/excuses, which I'm sure are legitimate... But they never *quite* seem to acknowledge the anger with the backers...
No, nothing on the jacket front. There are now two people in Calgary the received theirs. Mine could potentially be at home right now, but I won't know until sometime later tonight(going out to a movie, then dinner, with the friend I went to Vegas with...now, if only we each had a girlfriend life would be better)
But I'm going to head out now, since I do have that movie to get to. I'll be back on tomorrow.
Hey gang. Anyone here?
Yeah, PoT. In fact, nobody was all today until now! You guys really did just wait for when I was available! Aw shucks!
My pleasure Zem. :)
Evening kittens. Spent the day at home in bed getting over my stomach troubles. Watched "Cloverfield" for the first time. Interesting movie. Not worth watching more than once so I will probably give it away.
Lots of rain today and I hear we might get snow this Sunday. It is apparent that Old Man Winter has locked Mother Nature in the bathroom and we need to rescue her.
Scrunchie update- she's still hanging on. I'm so stuck. I really can't afford a house call to put her to sleep.
She's letting me touch her more. I cleaned her eye, found two small holes beneath it that look like claw marks. I'm guessing cat fight, she got an infection. The holes were draining so much. Put hyrdogen peroxide on them, saline soaked cotton ball in nose, hot water bottle, arnica in water fed through syringe.... *sigh*
Geist, that just sounds like a plot to a terrible but awesome cult classic 80s action movie.
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Aaw, I don't want Scrunchie to go! Though I've had 2 cats in similar situations... not turn out so well, but I feel like she's pulling through. Is it really that serious now? I hope not. I'd rather take her to a vet to get some specific antibiotics.
I love this song. Just listen to the very end... it's amazing. And yes, I can VERY nearly match that. I've actually scared people with how low my vocal range goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
@Geist, hope you feel better soon! I think Mother Nature is vacationing here it's going to be in high 70s tomorrow!
@Creeper, I'm so sorry about scrunchie. Do you have any idea how old she is? Do you think she can recover? I really hope so!
Like I said, if it's serious enough to consider putting her down, then it's past time to shanghai her to the vet's office for a specific antibiotic.
@Zem, vets are tres expensive though... And she can barely touch her so there's that too...
To all the northern bound kittens, what do you guys think of a day trip to drumheller? If you've never heard of it, the answer should be yes... ;)
Then...
"yes... ;)" I guess.
I really, really hope it works out for me to go. I'd be okay with missing a few Physical Chemistry classes to go! (and that's saying something! Not that I'll love P-chem, in fact, I'll love a chance to be able to not drown in it, but that missing it might spell certain doom)
Woo! 6 from Dr. P, 72 from LZ! I'd like to blame AZANS and Riddle "Hour" primarily. ;)
LZ's just over 1,000 from Creeper now as well! We've come a long way!
@BaKhan: send Mother Nature back down to the US. You are already blessed with maple syrup. You can't have both.
And a day trip to Drumheller sounds nice. Count me in.
I bought plastic sleeves for my kittens, and now they don't fit into the box :(.
Yeah, emmil, that was a problem we figured would happen since the cards were sent out. Just too bad it works out like that.
Morning kittens.
You know, the more I look at it after the lay offs yesterday, I won't be able to take any days off past the weekend of October 29/30. At least not until Nov 3/4, possibly. But I should be able to take Oct 27/28 off, since that's a small payroll week, and everything I would need to do would be done by then.
G' Mornin' all.
I have been in touch with the coordinator for Gen Con in Indianapolis in early August. Right now they are not looking for volunteers to assist, but they'd like to know if any of us will be there in case they need an extra helping hand (or two).
Does anyone actually plan on attending at this point in time? You will need to pay your own entrance fees.
@PoT: I won't be able to, mostly because of the currency conversion.
Hi guys. Thanks for the warm wishes. Scrunchie has drastically dropped in health. And today she actually tried to lay on my lap. She is skin and bones. She won't eat, and I've been giving her pedialyte fluids via syringe. I very much wish she would let go. She can't hardly stand. I don't want her to be scared in a carrier and at the vet, but I also can't afford a house call. This sucks. Do I just stop giving her fluids?
I'm sitting on the floor with her on my lap.
This just haaaad to be the month where I paid all of my rent (instead of split with roommate). It has thrown me off so bad. Imagine paying double the rent you normally would... And this is NYC rent.
I am so sorry Creeper. I know from personal experience how hard it is to see a kitty failing in health. It's hard for me to read your post without having tears spring up.
How much would it cost to have a vet visit?
I'm waiting on a few responses. Seems like $150-$200. And sorry to be the Debbie downer. I wanna keep the convo cheerful and fun! But my coworkers already think of me as the crazy cat lady. Don't have many people to talk to about why I'm letting a sick backyard kitty hole up in my room.
Creeper, You can can about anything in here. I'd be happy to send a donation. If nothing else, so Scrunchie can be at peace.
This Scrunchie talk reminds me of GIR. Except he didn't have wounds; he was just skin and bone at the end.
So sorry, Creeper.
Well, I just moved her to the hot water bottle- and what I thought was clumped up dirty fur on her head (been trying to gently clean it the past few days) actually burst. It was *not* pretty and did not smell nice. But I think it gave her relief. I put some hydrogen peroxide on it, and fizzzzzed! She seemed more aware. Held her head up and drank more tuna water with pedialyte. She's asleep in the other room now. I showered and Leo is desperate for attention.
And Geist- that's very sweet of you to offer. I feel so so strange asking for money or taking it. But I may need to take you up on it. Going to contact two more places today and see what their rate is. I can't do much more of this, and neither can she. Honestly, I was hoping she was pass overnight, but like all scrappy backyard kitties- they're fighters.
Holy *bleep*! If it wasn't red, it must of been puss which means she has a serious infection. I'm glad she it taking a little nourishment. She knows that you are her friend and mean her no harm.
The offer still stands if you need it Creeper. KITTY FRIENDS UNITE!
my heart just broke. I peeked in on her, and she moved off of the hot water bottle and onto my clothes. I took them off in there because I'm trying to be careful about infecting leo, especially since i was holding her for so long. Baby girl!! she was laying on top of them. I just whimpered.
Your smell means comfort to her at this point. At least she is getting some help. If she was anywhere else, no one would care and she wouldn't even be getting this little bit of comfort.
making me cry! ....I'm still searching for a service. The only ones i"ve found are $300. -__- I mean, I get it. They come to your home and do this. It is a big service... but stiiiiillll
Just thought I'd repost this; I had a fun night, this was interesting, and like no one was around:
I love this song. Just listen to the very end... it's amazing. And yes, I can VERY nearly match that. I've actually scared people with how low my vocal range goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Aaw, I've had 2 cats go through something similar... I remember it's not very pleasant at all. The second time, I nearly begged my mom to take him to the vet, but she didn't until we already thought it was too late, but he moved a little. He didn't even make it through the car ride to the vet. The only thing worse than losing a beloved pet (like poor little Jean Claude Philippe Jacques Perez) is knowing you had a chance to help them before it was too late. That was why I kept telling you to bring her to the vet for specific help; we all know full well what it's like and don't want you to have to go through it with Scrunchie.
The part of that story that added insult to injury is that the momma cat, one of my favorites, Freija, left soon after because we gave away her other 3 kittens and then cute lil' JC went through that, so she was left only with Marble, our older cat who just passed last winter, and who really didn't like any other cats who might try to encroach on her territory, so Freija ran away and I haven't seen her since. That whole thing was just a debacle.
*note: we gave the other 3 kittens away before that happened to JC. We're not so cruel as to separate them after that kind of thing already happened to one.
Sorry to hear that about Scrunchie. When we put Scoobee Dew to sleep, he was still well enough to walk into the clinic on his own four legs. We knew that he might last for weeks or months, but we didn't want to have his last days filled with suffering. It was very hard to see him go. I hope Scrunchie is at peace soon.
@Creeper, I feel so bad for you and scrunchie. You are doing more for her then anyone probably ever has. Sometimes compassion is the only thing we can give, and I have to believe that is enough. If she is at the end, that's all that can really be done anyways. I know it isn't easy, peace Creeper.
Thanks guys. She's such a little fighter. I keep telling her it's ok to go. She just doesn't understand English! I've emailed about 5 services, and let them know that this is a TNR kitty, and more of a Good Samaritan situation. Hopefully one will help me out. For now she can sleep on my clothes with a hot water bottle and tuna water pedialyte nomz.
Zem- unfortunately, with her being feral- if she's does actually get better, she may revert to previous behavior and not let me touch her. It's hard to administer meds regularly. Also the expense. And I have Leo at the moment and roommate who is kind enough to let Scrunchie stay in her bedroom. I can't provide the care for her if she was able to actually heal. We both also have full time jobs. It's been tough enough keeping Leo separate and constantly cleaning to prevent any passing of infection. If I lived alone and didn't have Leo, it's something I would have probably done when she showed up. But sometimes it's just best for a fur baby to help them no longer suffer. She came back for comfort and safety. It's all I can do.
Poor kitty. It's always terrible when this kind of thing happens, and after the whole thing with JC, I've always felt strongly about helping them early on so it doesn't become serious and lead to this situation. It usually doesn't, but sometimes you can tell it'll go too far.
Ok, so apparently someone gave a patient my personal cell phone number. �
That question mark is an angry face emoji.
Why... who?! Why would do such a thing?! I'm guessing the reason it's that question mark thing is to censor just how frustrated that angry emoji must be!
Also, shouldn't I have gotten some form of notification about play-testing the app beta? It's been awhile now. Did you guys just get emails that let you test the app or what?
I'm just so happy she came to me for comfort.
Creeper, that is awesome. It's just too bad it couldn't have been under happier circumstances.
Zem, I got an email with the relevant linke about two days after I signed the NDA.
You mean the google doc thing? Because otherwise I never even got an NDA. No response after filling out the google doc entry form.
someone gave a patient my personal cell phone number
Did you ask that person who did it and then, did you rip that person a new one for giving out such personal information?
Geist, I should have, but I couldn't think of how to ask without sounding hostile.
Zem, I see. I filled out the Google doc, then it was a few days later that I got the NDA. Perhaps you should email Bella.
@LZ: "I'm just curious: how did you get my personal phone number?"
That is about as nice a way as I could come up with.
If it happens again, I'll probably say that.
I'm beginning to feel like a nap god, nap god.
So support@explodingkittens.com? Or something else?
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I'm hungry. Hmm... do I want money or Canes? Money or Canes... or maybe Chipotle. Cash, Canes, or Chipotle...
My tummy has issued an edict: "I want chipotle!"
Let it be known that my stomach is more powerful than my brain or even my wallet. Defeated in battle, this day of our lord April the 8th, 2016 years anno domini, at the glorious battle of "I'm hungry, dammit!"
I have 9.63 regrets, yet I think a burrito and chips make up for that.
Why, God?! Why does good food cost money?!
The diamond fell out of my wife's ring last night. We got lucky and found it.
That's incredibly lucky! Also still, support@explodingkittens.com for the beta testing thing?
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Also, next semester I'm taking 4 more credit hours, but it seems like half the classes! I won't have a huge-ass block of classes every day and tuesdays won't be 8:30-midnight or more of hell.
Woohoo! On the group page, they said the crate crates have shipped! Confirmation emails for all!
Yes, that's the email. What group page?
The slack page. I haven't gotten the email, they said on Slack #general
Ok. I had seen that. I wasn't sure if you were on Slack.
Weird that you're on Slack but not the beta.
Yeah, but remember I didn't have anything with android until I downloaded that emulator a couple days ago.
Also, I'm not usually on slack, I never check there, but I get an email whenever they tag everyone, so I go check then.
Right. I just thought they only sent the Slack invites to the beta testers.
They sent that to everyone in the Crate, didn't they?
I guess so
Just watched Looney Tunes Back In Action for the first time in like 12 or 13 years, which is surprising since I loved it so much after the few times I saw it then. So many memories from it, but it's also on par with even Spongebob for hidden subtle obscure references and not-so-subtle innuendos! Also Timothy Dalton and Steve Martin.
I love all the sometimes REALLY obscure Warner Bros. references and allusions they had in it.
Let the cook off preparations begin!