Feels like it's an hour later

[howeird]

Still.

I should be packing, but the urgency is just not there. Maybe I'll do a box or two after I write this.

Woke up to the smell of cat shit. Kaan had pooped next to the bed, on the side I don't get up from. Maybe I will surrender him, after all. Good thing I have a carpet steamer. Actually, I think I need to have it repaired, one of the brushes broke off. Anyhow, I changed both the litterboxes before going to work.

Lots of work done at work. Lunch was at Jake's across from Fremont HS in Sunnyvale. Awful location at the wrong end of a strip mall between a dance/music school and a martial arts school. Philly cheese steak was excellent. Good fries, too. Went there because it is at the other end of the mall from the nails place. I had not made an appointment because the last three times I did Michelle did not show up in time and someone less talented did my nails. I figured if I showed up later, I'd get her again. Nope, she took the day off. Oh well. No manicure.

The escrow broker called, turns out Allstate quoted me too low a rate, they left out flood insurance. But it is still less than the escrow company rate, so I don't know why they were asking me which one I wanted.

Someone had hacked my Barnes&Noble account and tried to buy a $300 gift card, and when that bounced they tried for a $150 card. That bounced too because the credit cards I had on file had been closed a long time ago. I emailed them telling them to delete my account, they emailed back and said to call their customer support number. After 5 minutes on hold and three transfers, nobody knew how to do that. I'd already removed the cards, changed my password and changed my address to something bogus in Thailand, but I don't want my name in their files. This afternoon I got canned email saying they had been hacked. :-(

My last project at work required me to watch ESPN, and I was very surprised they were at Stanford. So I turned that on when I got home. I watched the game until Oregon scored a touchdown, which was way late, after halftime. I don't know who was in those yellow helmets, but is wasn't the team which ran up 40+ points a game for 8 games. Or was it 7? Whatever. Stanford did not play that much better.

Did some laundry, was getting low on shirts.

Dinner was chow mien and orange chicken left over from yesterday's lunch. dessert a sliced banana with chocolate sauce.

Plans for tomorrow:

Work
Packing

Comments

[lironess.livejournal.com]

LOVE the background images...my eye are multi too but not so beautiful.

Sounds like Kahn is trying to tell you something...not sure what as they can only speak in pantomime. I have been watching "My Cat From Hell" and surprisingly learning a LOT about cat communication. I will have to think on this one what poop by the bed could mean...unless it is pre move anxiety but you seem calm about it so not sure why he would have that. You may want to check out the show Jackson does some truly amazing work and deals a lot with poop issues.

[howeird]

Kaan poops outside the box usually because he thinks his litterbox is too dirty. Once in a while he will do it for no apparent reason. This is the third time since I got him almost a year ago where he did it in the bedroom, but the first time he did it while I was in the room. I was asleep, but still.

It isn't move anxiety, he has been doing it since he first got here.

I think what it boils down to is he's not very smart.

[lironess.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure that pooping does not relate to intelligence. He may want more litter boxes or different litter. He may be trying to get more attention there are TONS of possibilities. Do you have a feather stick to play with him? That is one of the big things that happen on that show there are interactive toys. Da Bird is a popular one. Theory is cats sleep then hunt then sleep some more and they need to hunt something every day...Da bird look particularly good in that it is a long stick with a long string so the human pretty much only moves their arms... no need to get really physical. And to wear out a normal cat takes about 15 min or so...once a day...

Also being Siamese they have a whole thing of being more demanding of attention and needy that a moggie. So yeah just trying to think of a way that you may be able to keep him it is very hard on a cat to keep going to different homes. Sigh.