Cat ears, vomit comet, gaming

Some much more positive things:

• I'd been having epic battles with the 21-year-old cat in order to get pills down her strongly resisting little throat. It's terrifying because I don't want to break her, don't want to get bitten, and don't want the little shit to starve to death (it's an appetite stimulant that we're giving her). But at some point while I was on vacation, the bug did some research and there's now a transdermal variant of the medicine! The vet got me some with no questions asked, and now instead of a pill we simply smear some ointment on the inside of her ear (the pinna... such a cute word for a cute little body part). The battles are over, my fingers have healed and the cat's opinion of me is much improved.



• For a variety of reasons, including "I stupidly forgot to schedule much post-vacation to actually look forward to" plus someone making it really, really easy, I am doing an insanely splurgey thing in August. In particular, I am riding on the Vomit Comet on August 3. The money is almost indefensible, but it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and what is money for, anyway? I have always wanted to do this, ever since I heard of the thing. So far I think we'll have 5 friends in the same capsule, which is marvelous and amazing. And yes, yes I TOTALLY AM going to do a press handstand in the "Martian gravity" parabolic pass. Laugh all you want. Or, if you just read this and thought to yourself "I have nothing to do on August 3!" then join us.



• As of last night, I've cleared all the levels in the first 10 worlds of Baba Is You (and if you don't think that's an achievement, you haven't played). I found some bonus stuff so I'm now going on to that, and there's more bonus stuff somewhere which I will look up hints for eventually if I have to. I just wanna play all the levels.

Typing this on a plane to London, where there is a big manager convention thing; I will be giving a talk to my fellow managers about trans inclusivity, which is fun. The part where I won't really sleep tonight is less fun, but I get to check into my hotel at 2:00 and figure I'll do that, with some napping in the afternoon. And the talk isn't until Thursday.