The players: Mai-Lyn: Cat, 14 years old, Siamese, Seal Point, female Pandora: Cat, 9 years old, DSH, Tuxedo (black & white), female Max: Cat, about 3 months old, DSH, Tabby, male Jake: Dog, 3 years old, Australian Cattledog Mix, Grey Merle, male Well, the kitten is settling in well. Mai-Lyn still growls and hisses, but I witnessed one nose-touching incident. Pan is ok up to a point, then starts snorting and growling. Neither are very appreciative when Max chases them. The dog is beside himself. There's a cat that doesn't hate him, that will rub up against him and purr.…

You are The Cap'n! Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any man that stands between them and the mantle of power. You never met a man you couldn't eviscerate. Not that mindless violence is the only avenue open to you – but why take an avenue when you have complete freeway access? You are the definitive Man of Action. You are James Bond in a blousy shirt and drawstring-fly pants. Your swash was buckled long ago and you have never been so sure of anything in your life as in your ability…

Here's an interesting quiz stolen from What kind of thinker are you? My results: You are a Linguistic Thinker Linguistic thinkers: – Tend to think in words, and like to use language to express complex ideas. – Are sensitive to the sounds and rhythms of words as well as their meanings. Other Linguistic Thinkers include William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Anne Frank Careers which suit Linguistic thinkers include Journalist, Librarian, Salesperson, Proof-reader, Translator, Poet, Lyricist

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Swiped from … the ones in bold are the ones I've read/watched. Books 1984, George Orwell The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll Animal Farm, George Orwell Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer The BFG, Roald Dahl Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks Black Beauty, Anna Sewell Bleak House, Charles Dickens Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres Catch 22, Joseph Heller The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl A Christmas Carol,…

Weigh in today was 283, which is down 1 pound for the week, and 8.8 pounds total. So far I've lost at a rate of about 1.6 lbs per week. I'd like to lose faster, but I'm just delighted that I'm losing at all. Especially considering the somewhat halfassed way I've been doing this. Portion sizes: I'm doing pretty well on this part. The times I have larger portion sizes, I'm aware of it and I count it. I've found that reasonable portion sizes really aren't that bad at all! I used to always get a foot long sub at…

This is a very good article by one of my favorite authors, no less: So it's pretty hilarious to hear record company executives and movie studio executives get all righteous about copyright. They've been manipulating copyright laws for years, and all the manipulations were designed to steal everything they could from the actual creators of the work.

My journal says I'm 53% masculine. What does your LJ writing style say about your gender? LJ Gender Tool by I am NOT! Well, maybe.