He’s our little chonk. Was on “the list” at a city shelter when a rescue got him. He’d been a stray for quite a while, to judge by scars, weight, and polished footpads. Now his heeler stubborness comes out in determinedly refusing to do anything that isn’t relaxing. Our lifestyle is compatible, so he mostly only has to leave when he goes to the vet. To see him come out of shell and start feeling entitled to simply being loved has been very gratifying, though.
LOL, y’all are makin’ me sad. Stetson is alive and well, and still the same delightful curmudgeon he’s always been. If anything, the farther he gets from being a stray on city-shelter death row, the more relaxed and puppyish he gets.
Being the most overrated player of his generation due to playing in NYC and the Colts thinking they could cakewalk through Super Bowl III? Definitely.
Also yes, he does look a bit hobbitty. The hair helps a lot.
The hair and the mud help too, but until I saw which comm this was in, I was hunting for random weirdness and not finding it.
The Silmarillion is definitely the “Bible” of Middle Earth, and its structure, content, and style all reflect that. I was mostly just cracking wise about the similarities.
I read it in High School. It sated any desire to read translations of bronze and iron age holy texts, so that was a benefit. As far as its being an enjoyable read, however…
Poetry. Sheer poetry!
Like I said. Perfect!
That one tends to prefer under the bed or behind the recliner, anywhere he can have something between him and the mean ol’ world, so seeing him relax in the sunbeam is nice.
He has a little German Shepherd in his DNA, so that’s where we think the tri-color/saddle came from but I absolutely see the beagle resemblance.
“If it works for the humans, it’ll work for me!”
I’m sure he would say think you by cheeping sweetly, then hissing like an asthmatic snake.
I should make him pay rent!
Yes, I work from home, but he’s been to workplaces before, and nothing so boring as a simple office. My wife got him as a chick in college, and he still needed a little bit of syringe feeding, so for a week or two she took him to the restaurant where she was a server and got her manager to put him in the business office away from any food prep areas. I’ve known him since he was around 5, and I’m not entirely sure whether my being able to get him to fly to me made her jealous or made her love me more. Maybe both. :-)
He’s finally, in the last year or so, visually showing his age just a bit, though he’s still got the energy to molt and grow new feathers, and he’s also still loud and an active climber, although he doesn’t like to come out of his cage anymore, even when the door is open. “Flying” is also more “falling with style” these days, but he gets quite the attitude when he needs help to get back to the cage. I feel pretty good that we’ve still got a year or more with him, though you never really know with birds. I’m just glad his vain little self has decided to grace us with his presence for so long.
The best moment in our current house was the day a local hawk caught sight/ear of him through the cracked-open window, then perched on that black fence you can just see in the background, and finally lazily swooped in for an easy meal, only to thump into the “force field” of glass. Hawky boi was fine after a few minutes resting back on the fence, but I wouldn’t have thought you could identify “WTF” as a bird emotion before that day. He’s returned once, though he didn’t try the swoop again.
Probably a nest up in the corner of the bus stop. The only time I’ve ever been dive-bombed was by some swallows when they had a nest up in the corner of the house’s porch.
Yup. I know cats can do better roaming free than most pets, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe for them, and it’s certainly not safe for the local bird population.
Harness for walks, collar for ID.
Meowchiatto
Aussies are great. They’re like border collies, but slightly more chill.
We like to say he looks like an oil painting brought to life.
He’s also gone straight from the foster where he was born (his mother is only 10-12 months older than him and had a much tougher road) to be the doted-upon baby goofball. Even our other dog, a slightly aloof and very wary former stray, looks out for him and even washes his feet when he senses his 90-pound (40kg) “puppy” forgot to handle it.
Sounds like a middle management role at a property management company, managing teams that will do some combination of developing new software, procuring outside software, configuring software, doing shit with integrations including rolling in whatever clusterfuck of legacy systems and data any corporate acquisitions would bring in, and providing tech support under Service Level Agreements. My first impression is that the packages in questions would probably be about some combination of rent pricing, market analysis, maintenance ticketing, and contract lifecycle management.
Frankly, it sounds awful. 🤣 The word soup could also be partly that they’ve already identified internal candidates but have a corporate requirement to post publicly.