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After checking out the upgrades to both Firefox and Internet Explorer, all I can say is “so?”
Neither lights my fire and I’m sticking with Safari on my Mac and Firefox 1.5 on the PC.
Mozilla seems to want to out Microsoft itself with a bug-loaded Firefox 2.0 and the new IE is just more of the same from MS.
At first I thought it was an earthworm on the floor of our kitchen but it was too skinny to be a worm. And earthworms aren’t black. About four inches long, it lay coiled towards the center of the floor but slithered quickly off towards the kitchen sink as I approached and into a small hole between the linoleum and the bottom of the cabinet under the sick.
I opened the cabinet door just in time to see it slither down into the opening between the bottom of the cabinet and the kitchen sink drain pipe and into the crawl space under the house.
A couple of quick notes:
Hung photos over the weekend in Oddfellas Cantina. If you’re by for lunch or dinner, check them out and let me know what you think. Bill Bell, our local landscape photographer extraordinaire, will be putting his superlative scenes on the opposite wall of the dining room. Mine are all faces. Maybe we’ll call the shows “Faces and Places.”
USA Today discovered Floyd in a recent visit while researching a story on The Crooked Road.
You don’t mess with tradition in the green hills and hollows of Southwest Virginia. And judging from Alzora Wood’s steely glare and that 4-foot-long wand she’s wielding, you don’t mess with her, either. Bands take shape on the corner, and a street party atmosphere prevails.
Fragmented Fred First, dean of the Floyd County bloggers, is the county’s latest published author. His collection of essays is out in a new volume, Slow Road Home, a blue ridge book of days.
Longtime readers of Fred will recognize the chapters in the book, either from his blog or his column in The Floyd Press (the two usually overlap).
Over the weekend we moved to a new server.
Last night the new server crashed. It’s the third new server we’ve had crash in less than a month.
Not sure what’s going on here but they sure don’t make servers like they used to.
Posts for the last three days have been lost, along with the comments. When I get time to restore them from backup I will but right now I’m more concerned about fixing the hardware glitch.
We’re moving Blue Ridge Muse to a new server. During the move, comments have been disabled until we get relocated. Should be back on line by Sunday.
One of the vets from Virginia-Maryland School of Veterinary Medicine called Wednesday to report on the result of Loki’s autopsy. Bottom line: They still don’t know what caused the kitten’s extensive brain damage but we did the right thing by bringing him in and having him put to sleep.
The masses in his brain had expanded to the point that the pressure caused pain and Loki would have died in another day or two but would have suffered much more had we not chosen to end his short life.
Enough rain fell this week to send grass shooting up in the South 40, also known at the front yard of Chateau Thompson. This means getting the John Deere out of mothballs, sharpening the three blades on the cutting deck, and tackling the three acres of yard before the National Forest Service declares it a wilderness area.
Loki is home. Sadly, after many, many tests, the vets and students at the Virginia-Maryland Regional Veterinary Hospital at Virginia Tech say there is nothing any of us can do but try and make him comfortable for the rest of his life although no one knows how long that will be.
The MRI found evidence of two masses on his brain, both deep inside and both inoperable. At least one is affecting is balance, motor control and vision. If the masses grow, his condition will deteriorate.