More posts from my microblog

Usually when I do a linkpost I mostly link to the long posts, but if I do them more often, I figure I can afford to link to the short posts, too. So here you are:

• I linked to an interesting article by Usman Khawaja on the hostility of Australian cricket to players of immigrant backgrounds, and how this is sloooowly changing. (No real point linking to my post I guess, that just goes straight to the article.)
• A post about "all X is not Y" not meaning the same as "not all X is Y". Spawned some discussion in the comments, too. I want to clarify I don't usually complain about minor variations in the use of language, but this one annoys me because I always assume the other person meant what they literally wrote and I have to go back and read it again once I realise that can't be right.
• I finished R.F. Kuang's The Burning God (the last in her military fantasy trilogy) and I posted a review of it to my homepage. I liked it a lot better than the second book but it still was not perfect.
• Lastly, a post about cats' thermoneutral zone, which turns out to be much higher than humans', so I guess I should stop worrying when Gidget wants to go out on scorching hot days 😁

On Gidget not wanting to see guests

Gidget is an indoor-outdoor cat, but we (try to) keep her in between dusk and dawn (which is even the local bylaw, although hardly anyone abides by it haha). Last week she was giving us some problems: where usually she'd been coming in between 6–7pm, she was jumping the fence to a neighbour's and not coming home 'til 11pm, if we didn't find her and carry her in before 6. She also wasn't coming in for snacks over the course of the day like usual, nor spending her time chilling in our little backyard where she usually spends a lot of time. Instead, she'd hide in the front flowerbed, or (as I said) jump the fence to our neighbours' properties.

I think there was an obvious cause: where we hadn't had anyone visit for like six months due to the lockdown and then my mum's health issues, we did have my folks visit on New Year's Eve and then three days later on the Sunday (Sunday being the day we usually catch up each week). ( Read more... )

Originally posted at micro.jayeless.net. At the original source, you will also find a photo of my little treasure of a cat.