Squirtles being those diarrheal dog poops that are more liquid than solid. Monday night, Trixie had one, which TYG and me both up at 1 AM. Tuesday, she had another one. Rest of the time, things were normal.
Wednesday night, the squirtle flood hit. Every 90 minutes. Anticipating the possibility, I’d taken Trixie to join me and Wisp in the spare bedroom so that only one of us would have to wake up (TYG has bosses and customers to answer to, I don’t). I got very little sleep and still got up too late for one of her episodes so I had to clean it up as well. Ugh.
Thursday we took her in to the vet, got her some probiotics and limited her food. Last night she was fine.
Thursday TYG took both dogs upstairs and I spent most of the day asleep. It’s hard for me to take long naps but once in a while, when I’m dead on my feet, I can do it. And this was one of those times.
Oh, and Plushie has decided he wants to eat cat poop out of the litter box which would be bad (clumping litter makes it worse). We have to keep it covered with the entrance to the hood blocked, then remove the cover when Wisp needs it. Pain in the butt, but unless one of us hits on a brilliant solution, it’s necessary.
(As you can see, Plushie’s floof is so thick now I can stick my whole finger into his ruff).
Despite missing a day, Monday-Wednesday were a good work week. I finally finished rewriting Southern Discomfort. I still need a final pass to see if my rewrite introduced spelling errors, typos, dropped words but I won’t be editing otherwise — the book stands as it is (and I think it’s very good). That feels good. Took close to two days to accomplish but they were productive days.
I had an article in The Local Reporter on local GoFundMes. At Atomic Junk Shop I looked at yet another Silver Age reboot of Marvel’s Captain Marvel —
— good and bad stories spotlighting women —
— and reprinting an earlier AJS post about Christmas as a pop-culture black hole.
And my friend and Ceaseless Way collaborator Ada Milenkovic Brown has interviewed me on her blog.
TYG and I also spent a good deal of time playing a video game on a gorgeous digital advent calendar friends of ours gave us as a gift — Tetris with Christmas ornaments, more or less.
The whole calendar’s a treat. I’ll post more pictures down the road.
Despite the squirtles, a good week
Cover for “The Man Who Never Sleeps” by Jack Kirby, Captain Marvel art by Gil Kane, Supergirl art by J. Winslow Mortimer, computer image by Jacquie Lawson. Ceaseless Way cover by GetCovers, based on idea by Arden Brooks. All rights remain with current holders.
