Yarnification

Note: Yesterday I changed the code that inserts the project progress bars over there on the side of the page so as to make it XHTML-compliant and to add alternate text so that anyone who doesn’t have Flash installed will see a text version of the percentage instead of a broken thing. I checked it in Mozilla and Internet Explorer on my system and in Lynx (text-based browser, so as to make sure the alternate text version would show up) through my shell account, but if the progress bars seem to be broken in your browser, please drop me a line or leave a comment, okay? ( yarnification@daisywreath.net ) And if you’re using these same bars and want a copy of the compliant code, I’d be happy to pass it along.

I’ve got one snowflake done so far for the Snowflake Crochet-Along:

(clickable for full-size version and pattern info, but the full size one is super blurry)

The Kittycat Progress Report: Cat seems to be almost entirely better. He has more energy, he’s running around and playing, and he’s fighting back about taking his pill twice a day (at first he just lay there and took it, all dispirited-like), all of which is really nice to see. Though not so easy to give him the pill now. And this morning he finally realized that he could pretend to swallow the pill, then go spit it out in the corner, so we’re having to watch him like a hawk to make sure he actually swallowed it.

He’s not constantly straining to pee now, and he’s not peeing in inappropriate places. (Hooray!) He’s still peeing more often than usual, but we were told to expect that for a while, and that as long as he’s peeing and not straining he should be fine. He has another week of antibiotics to go, too.

We’re giving him (and Lena, since there’d surely be hell to pay if we tried to give it to just Kittycat) a half a can of wet food in the morning and a half a can at night, too. They are all in favor of this. We’re planning to cut back to a quarter can each in the morning and at night, so they’d each be getting a half can a day, because they have shown no sign of slowing down with the crunchies and we don’t really want them to turn into Kittyzillas. We’ll see how it goes. Loco thinks it’s patently unfair that we’re giving the cats something so yummy-smelling and not giving any to him. I tried explaining to him that the cats didn’t get to eat the equivalent of half a hamburger last night in combined bits from the three of us, but he does not buy this excuse and feels that I should run out to Walmart and pick him up some Alpo.