Hello whoever may be reading this blog post!
I haven't been working much on the site. I have ideas and things I want to do but I also feel ... not unmotivated but something akin to that. I've noticed that some of the other peeps I follow here on Neocities are also having that feeling. Sometimes instead of forcing yourself to work on something, it's just better to step back and refresh yourself before diving back in. So for now I'll content myself with a blog post and we'll see how I'm feeling later on.
I am feeling very hip and with it because I scored a Bluesky invite. I have a Twitter account but I use it pretty much just to follow people. Very rarely have I interacted on the site and, of the 6 people who follow me, I think 4 are bots. Anyway, I am becoming increasingly unhappy with what's happening to that site and I feel like if I continue to use it, even if it is just for silently following accounts, then I'm tacitly agreeing to everything Musk is standing for. Some of the people I follow have gone to Tumblr so I made myself an account there. And some of them moved to Bluesky. One of them, a cat account I follow called Cats of Yore (which is also on Tumblr) ran a fundraiser for Flatbush Cats in New York. If you donated anything and sent her the receipt then you were put in a drawing for invite codes. The cool thing is, she had so many people offer up codes that anyone who participated got a code. And Flatbush Cats got I think around $600, which is a nice little sum for an off-the-cuff fundraiser. So now I'm on Bluesky and it's both kind of empty there but also, lots of cats. I'm trying to interact a little bit more and both post pics of my kitties and like and comment on other kitties.
Reading is going slowish this month. I'm on my 4th book, an old Barbara Hambly "The Time of the Dark." It's ok .. not horrible but also not can't-put-it-down. The book prior to that, Stephen King's "Fairy Tale" was a lot more engaging. I think also part of the reason I'm not reading so much is that I'm distracted this month by my shiny new social media account.
A TV show that I've really been enjoying, Reservation Dogs, is winding down. The creator is purposely ending it, saying basically that he had a story to tell, it's been told, and there's no need to go further. It's kind of sad because I want more but also, respect to a creator who isn't going to beat his creative work into the ground just to keep it going. I've been watching Star Trek: Lower Decks. I didn't think I was going to enjoy that show until I saw the crossover with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and realized it really was something I wanted to see. And I'm watching the 10th season of Father Brown. Those BBC British mysteries are like a comfortable old sweater. No surprises, you know what you're getting with them. Several long time characters didn't come back for this season and one of the replacements is somewhat annoying but not enough for me to stop watching.
Kitties are doing ok. Celine needs to get her thyroid meds readjusted because the hyperthyroid symptoms are coming back - excessive hunger and tummy upsets. That will require a blood test to find out her current levels and possibly one after to make sure the adjustment was enough. Maya is doing OK, as far as I can tell, with her renal issues. She's due for bloodwork in November to check on that. I am somewhat concerned because she has a hard lump on her chest. I thought for the longest time it was a fur knot. I couldn't ever really explore it because she was vehemently opposed to me checking it out and turned into a bundle of teeth and claws. Such an ornery girl! But now that I know it's not a fur knot, I need to get her in to get that checked out and I'm kind of dreading it.
Well, guys, that's about it for this time. It's Sunday afternoon which means I need to get some things done to prep for the work week ahead.