Mrrrow
here we are, two weeks later, and not under, but over a hundred dollars more to the vet to solve the feline fecal troubles I seem to be housing. Vets aren’t so much people people…I guess that’s why they got into animal medicine instead of people medicine. My new vet (the woman who got stuck on Rira duty today) was very uncomfortable around us (the people) and kepy consoling herself with big deep petting of Rira’s head. It made her able to talk to us and write things in a very sloppy (I guess all docs no matter the type of patient have sloppy handwriting) left hand scrawl on Rira’s chart. I think it’s so funny that Rira has a chart.
Anyhow, she found it rather peculiar that Rira was deaf. Did I meantion she is deaf? Well, here: she’s deaf. She went deaf about 2 years ago after (this is the only thing I can think of around that time) a brief sneezing cold. Since she is part Siamese, she already had a loud whiny meow, and post hearing loss, well, it only got louder…which brings me to the reason this particulat entry is being written.
Courtland is currently crouched in the entry hall of our apartment, hovered (very unergonomicallly) over his laptop. Minutes ago he was following Rira around with his iSight and recording her whiney-ness with it’s microphone. Interesting…it gets better (or worse, depending upon if you have ears that work or not).
He recorded her half-whine/meow into Garageband, and is now EDITING it. Because we don’t hear enough of her in every day life…. He has looped it and listened to it several, okay, maybe a HUNDRED times now, and I have no idea what he’s trying to do. Now he says in frustration, “I just can’t make it sound good.” ???!!! I think the only way to make Rira’s voice sound good is if I had a Babel fish and the translation from her voice box to my ears sounded like Sean Connery politely asking if he might have a drink.
Oh Gawl! Now he has tweaked it so that she sounds like she is in a cave, under water, drowning, and rapping…while doing a seagull imitation. I hurt.
February 26th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Hi Shelby! A belated welcome to blogging. Be aware, though, that since I have a blog now, the trend is as mainstreamed as it can get, and thereby officially ‘over’. But you’re cool already, so I’m sure you’re not worried.
We’ve been having similar cat problems, so Mouszers is locked up in out dressing room/bedroom, and I’m cleaning her litter box every six hours or so. We didn’t really want to confine her to such a small wandering area, so we held off for as long as possible. As a result, we’re going to be replacing all of the carpeting soon. Ugh!
Anyway, I hope the two of you are well. Keep in touch, Jeff & Anita