It’s a new month, so it’s time for me to once again be shocked that it’s a new month!
I was going to say it was a month of mostly just incremental progress, but now that I think about it:
- We went on two trips.
- We went to our most distant and tougest judo tournament yet (to be clear, my kid competed, not me)
- We ran birthday party, and it seemed to be fun.
- Middle school started and seems to be fine, if long and early-starting.
- Various activity plans got figured out.
- We got Bonus Cat on medication that seems to be making him feel better and somewhat more active. (He is a seventeen-year-old cat with a heart condition.) Just yesterday, he jumped up on the counter to drink chicken stock that I had left up there to cool. (Smidgeo is well-versed in illegal stock manipulation.)
Also, this was in July, but Dr. Wily, our other cat, who is also old but not as old as Bonus, got cancer — and beat cancer! For now. That was an uncomfortable time for us. There was a possibility that it had spread from her mammary gland to her lungs. The surgery and X-ray revealed that it did not, however!
Afterward, she had to take this terrifying drug that turned her into soulless A.I. Wily for a while, but the vet let us stop it. She still had to wear a donut but took that surprisingly well.
I did not find new work in August. (I’m available for contract or hire) In personal small triumphs, though, I got past a string of days in which I was really tired and another string of nights in which I’d wake up with a really dry throat every morning.
I’ll take what I can get.
In art news, I scrapped an approach to a visualization that I started in July. I think it was the right move, which I wish I had considered earlier, but better late than never.