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Phosphor on a dark blue blanket
Marlene, Phosphor, and Monty in a sunbeam
Phosphor on a red and orange blanket

We had to say goodbye to Phosphor this morning.

Brief medical details )

Phosphor was born feral. His sisters who we weren't able to trap as kittens are still with us, but we've yet to see a feral tomcat last more than a couple years as part of the backyard colony, even TNRed. So I manage to think we did him a favor by bringing him indoors.

He's been every cat's favorite cat; he helped tame feral kittens, grew up to take care of the cat he considered his adopted mother, mothered our huge but insecure alpha cat when she was a kitten, and was a best buddy to our youngest.

I think he had a good life, I just wish we could have done more for him.
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With relatives in town practically all week, have hardly had time to do anything else. I did manage pick up that book I was looking forward to, though.

Cats


Phosphor tries to ward Monty off
Phosphor tries to hold off the umpteenth enthusiastic grooming of the day. I am unsympathetic because when Phosphor was Monty's age, his grooming technique involved putting the other cat in a headlock first.

Fandom


Orycon is suddenly looming before me and I need to get some stuff written down for that panel.

Gaming


Really hardly time to do anything this week, but today I did make it through another chapter of Fire Emblem: Awakening and managed the super-difficult pairing of Chrom and Olivia.

Books and media


Somehow I found time to read Salvation Lost. Just finished off the Australian sf collection, and started The Raven Tower.
Politics )
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The previous post was interrupted by a mysterious clanking sound that needed investigating.

One of Phosphor's hobbies is dropping toys into the water dish, and then batting them around and fishing them out. (And then sometimes bringing them to me, still soaked.)

Another of his hobbies is finding new small objects that he can pick up, carry around, or otherwise manipulate. Usually he will bring them to me, or at least leave them next to one of the places I habitually sit, to see if he has discovered a new toy that we can play fetch with.

In this case, he somehow found a pair of small needle-nose pliers and went straight to dropping them in the water dish.

I've been saying for a while that he's mechanically inclined, but this is the first time I've caught him with an actual tool.
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After another round of showers, things have cleared up enough that we barbecued today. Last year we went almost directly from cold and gloomy to wildfire smoke and never managed to use the barbecue at all.

Cat



Phosphor at length

Phosphor has been known as Noodle Cat since he was a few months old. Note how, if someone weren't already sitting behind him, he could claim all three spots on the couch.

Fandom



The first set of summer premiere reviews is up. The highlight image that shows up on the main blog page is the screencap from Astra Lost in Space. Somehow that image gets funnier and funnier every time I look at it. (It wasn't supposed to be funny in context.)

The big news in SMOFdom this week is Marriott being sued by the District of Columbia over "resort fees".

Books and media



In between anime shows, have almost finished the re-read of Lost Cities of Africa.

I finished the summer premieres (BEM turns out to have been pushed back a week) and caught all the second episodes I needed to catch that are available this week. Probably final lineup: Dr. Stone, Granbelm, Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?, BEM, and The Ones Within.

Gaming



Took Eggsy to this week's mini-tournament and got a result right down the middle: one win, one loss, one bye. I hate byes, even if they do count as wins for power level purposes. I'd rather actually play and lose. I still learn every time I play.

Politics



Did not read anything terribly useful in the political realm this week.
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So I'll try this weekly notes thing and see how it works.

It's late June and I had to turn on the heat this morning. Ah, summer in Portland.

Cat



Phosphor

This is Phosphor. He's 9 years old, more active than any other 9-year-old cat I've known, and huge. He would be the king of all he surveys, except he has no assertiveness at all with other cats. As a kitten, he was the first feral cat we captured from the backyard, and he's helped tame subsequent kittens.

This got long, adding a cut... )

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