You, sir, too, sir,
Welcome to the grave.
I will have vengeance,
I will have salvation!

Who, sir? You, sir?
No one's in the chair--
Come on, come on,
Sweeney's waiting,
I want you bleeders!

Today my friends said goodbye to Marcus.  Yesterday he and his most favorite human, Rich, spend the afternoon outside and having a best day ever.  Today he got his favorite food and lots of attention.  It is sad to say goodbye to a four-legged family member.  I've known Marcus for longer than I've been at my current job.  I will miss him very much.  
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Quote from: KathyB on Mar 04, 2024, 04:39 PMTom, when you find out more information, please keep us updated on Marcus's status. I am hoping all the best for him.

Marcus Update:  Well, the good news is that he didn't need the surgery.  The bad news is that when they took an x-ray before the surgery, the vets found lung cancer.  It can not be treated.  Because of the lung cancer they decided not to operate.  Marcus seems to be in good spirits but physically might be running down.  Dori reports that he was having a bit of trouble breathing the past couple of days and is not very active.  They will say goodbye to him on Tuesday. That will be the third kitty to leave the house in the last 8 months.    

I also dislike "spring forward" day.  I wish we would stay in "fall back" mode.  I do not need an extra hour of sunlight.  In fact, I like it when it gets dark sooner because I don't need to use the air conditioner as much.  Now that I'm in Texas I wouldn't get much savings either way much past late April/early May.  The thing I really dislike is that we finally got to the end of "driving to work with the sun in our eyes" and now the clock is reset and we have to do it all over again.  

I got an early start on laundry as well.  I have one load to take out of the dryer and another ready to go in.  Assuming I fold and put everything away, I will be done for the week hours early!!  (Past performance indicates I probably won't get to the fold and put away part.    )

I was on my way to visit a no kill animal shelter when I decided I needed to eat first.  I dropped chili covered hashbrowns onto my shirt so many times I had to come home and change t-shirts.  My visit will have to wait until next weekend.  I am not thinking of adopting.  They have a foster program, many of which are short term, 1-2 weeks while the animal is waiting for a medical procedure.  I'm sure they hope you will fall in love and adopt.  But I think, once I get my apartment "cat ready", fostering would be a good fit with how much I travel.  

This is the day I dislike most of all days of the year. It seems to take me forever to get used to the hour ahead. My big plans for the day include laundry (already started) and grocery shopping. (Sorry to make everyone jealous.) Also, going on a semi-long walk, as it should be in the mid-60s this afternoon.

Last night I went to a great hockey game. It was the last week of the season before conference playoffs start next weekend.

[ 'nother wormhole:]  Boris Aronson's original design for Mme. Armfeldt's dining room was of course predicated on the joke of there being no "tiny" Titians.  (Which isn't necessarily true, but never mind).  SJS seems to have done his homework, sort of: the Venetian painter was in fact associated with the palace of the sixteenth-century Duke of Ferrara — though there would no longer have been anyone of that title (which no longer existed, and hadn't for more than two centuries) by the mid-nineteenth when Leonora supposedly "acquired some position" there.


This is how Samson was shorn;
Each in her style a Delilah reborn!
Each a gem, a beautiful
Diadem of beautiful —
Welcome them, these beautiful
Girls!


I was hoping that Dionysos's wedding gift to Ariadne, mentioned in the song from The Frogs that is named for her, might have occasioned another instance of the word "diadem".  But no: in keeping with the song's mood of bittersweet simplicity — and perhaps emphasizing the gift's intended function as a power accessory ("if you look like a goddess, you'll feel like a goddess") — Dionysos only ever refers to it, three times altogether, as a "crown".  While I haven't scoured the books, I'm feeling fairly confident that "Beautiful Girls" features the only appearance of "diadem" in SJS's oeuvre.

Hence: welcome.

At the palace of the Duke of Ferrara
I acquired some position
Plus a tiny Titian...

Liaisons! What's happened to them?
Liaisons today.
To see them--indiscriminate
Women, it
Pains me more than I can say,
The lack of taste that they display.

Where is style?
Where is skill?
Where is forethought?

...and speaking of MC:  They're at it again — this time in collaboration with another Chicago-based design studio incorporating digital 2D and 3D animation — in a six-minute phantasmagoria about a woman (and a world) on a deadline:

Manual Cinema + Span:  Countdown

MC's own upcoming short film Future Feeling is apparently still aiming for a festival release sometime this year, and their behind-the-scenes teaser photos continue to intrigue me.  The miniature sets -- Nantucket sand dunes, weather-vaned beach house, dramatic spiraling cotton-wool storm clouds -- look eye-wateringly gorgeous.

Quote from: KathyB on Mar 04, 2024, 04:39 PMTom, when you find out more information, please keep us updated on Marcus's status. I am hoping all the best for him.

I goofed up on the dates of Marcus's surgery.  It is this week but I think it is on the 8th.  I will let you know what happens.  I had a very good visit with him on Saturday.  I gave him some pureed sardines and we went for a walk in the field. Here he is laying in the grass.  It is sometimes difficult to get a good photo of him because he always wants to be near you.  
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Tom, when you find out more information, please keep us updated on Marcus's status. I am hoping all the best for him.