random bits

[cellio]

Ok, you guys were right: Heroes rocks, at least so far. I picked up the first season recently; I was hooked after two episodes and have seen six so far. It looks like the second season will be released on DVD in August, which means I won't have too long a wait. Increasingly, I'm coming to think that this is the way to watch most TV shows. (I should also be able to return the first season of Lost to the person who lent it to me and exchange it for the second season soon.) Still, I want to get an antenna up on the roof too. (Note to self.)

We've been having some modem troubles (two modems with different failure modes), so we ordered another recently to experiment with. It looks like we have a family of modems -- maybe a breeding program. given the evidence, I'd have to say that Westel-ness is a dominant gene. :-)

My vet wanted to see Erik recently (just a quick check on something), so while we were there I asked if she could try again to teach me how to push pills into him. (Currently he gets his medicine ground up in canned food, as I seem unable to reliably get a whole pill down.) She demonstrated, then had me try... and she finally said "it's ok; mixing it into the food won't hurt him". I feel inadequate; even my vet gave up on me. :-) (Yes, I have tried that plunger-like gadget. I haven't found the cat treats that have pockets for hiding pills in, but I suspect he's too smart for that.)

A bakery run on the honor system seems not to be loosing money. Interesting idea. (Someone on my reading list posted this link, but I forget who.)

I have a question for the Hebrew-literate. Please humor me. How would you say "I will thank you" (masculine, singular)? I thought I knew, and then I heard a different formation in a song, so I asked a native speaker, who provided a third option. (I think "odecha", song was "odeka", speaker said "odelecha". It's entirely possible that "odecha" is biblical and "odelecha" is modern, but what's with "odeka"?)

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[multislackerkim.livejournal.com]

Maybe the singers were not Hebrew speakers but come close phonetically for the most part, so you don't notice right away, but just some of the words sound wonky. Kind of like ABBA.

Here's a pill pocket link. I'm not sure the link works, but if you just search Pill Pockets on the site, you'll find that product that works for dogs (because dogs are dumb.)

[Julie? What are you doing walking around on the keyboard? Get off the keyboard!]

Anyway, speaking of Julie, she gets a pill twice a day -- in tuna. She wouldn't even eat it mixed in wet cat food. I'm definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as pilling that gal. But since it's for a hyper?thyroid? hypothyroid?...since she's really skinny, I don't mind pilling her and beefing her up at the same time.

There's no way she'd go for the pill pocket.

[cellio]

Probably hyperthyroid, from your description. Is the pill tapazole? (Might be branded as methimazole.)

Erik and Embla are both hyperthyroid. Well, for Embla I should say "was"; she's been fine (and drug-free) after I took her to RadioCat for a one-time treatment.

I've sometimes had to resort to tuna, but usually the canned food works for medicine delivery.