Member: Ella_Jill

OK Mr. JD is now purring contentedly on my profile page!

posted by KevinTexas at 4:29 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2009

Please: it's Mr. JD!!! ;-D

The initials stand for John Doe... him being a stray. And the Mister part? It just seems to fit. Sno, btw, is short for Snowboots. She is gray with white feet. Frankie was named by the shelter. hrm... I'll figure something out with the photos of the kids. yeah, I also like the Hardin character. And that brings to mind a criticism I've often seen aimed at Asimov - that he doesn't write compelling dialogue. I've always thought he was pretty good at it. At the moment I'm reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. It's a load of laughs. ehhh lol

posted by KevinTexas at 11:35 pm (EST) on Sep 10, 2009

I have three cats. Sno, a gray/white cat was the first. One evening as I was leaving she darted in the house. I scooted her back out. The next morning she was still hanging around. I left her some food and went to work. I stopped off at a pet store to get a litter box and some supplies - just in case she was still there. Yep. The next was Frankie, a tiger-striped tabby, who is the one in the photo. I picked him up at the shelter I was then volunteering at. He came in with two others - a partial siamese and an all-black cat. They had been fostered by a woman, since they all had various issues, and weren't initially ready to be adopted out. She told me that by the time they were feeling well these three had her gang of six cats on the run looking for hiding spots. I can imagine so... Frankie, aka Frank E. Stein, can be quite a handful at times. He is affectionate with the other two - actually he's probably the most cat-friendly of the three - but he's all alpha male and wants everyone to know who is in charge. Mr. JD (another gray/white cat - like a tuxedo cat except gray rather than black) is the third and most recent addition to the household. He was a stray I picked up at my former place of employment. There have always been a lot of strays in the area, but what made him differet was that he had been declawed. He was clearly someone's pet (or at least had formerly been.) He was in good shape for a street cat, but there was no way I was going to leave a declawed cat running free in the streets. I pasted "Found" signs, had him checked for a microchip... nothing. So here he is. He and Frankie are great friends and spend a lot of time wrestling with one another. I have seen photos on some of the profile pages here but I'm not sure how to upload any in addition to the one I already have on my page. If I can figure it out I'll post the other two. Well anyway... I tend to ramble on about my kids given half a chance... I'll get back with comments about books later on. ;-D -k

posted by KevinTexas at 8:08 am (EST) on Sep 9, 2009

ha well I'm not going to keep pondering it... I really have no idea then why I first came here. ;-) Anyway, last.fm is a music site that tracks the music played on your pc. I notice too that we have zero books in common. Here's a friend request. lol. I looked at your Best Friends review (perhaps it was simply the number of animal-related books you have listed that brought me here... do you have any animals?) - I used to volunteer at an animal shelter (cats and dogs w/ a few rabbits) and have been giving a lot of consideration to doing so again.

I said we have no books in common, but that's not true. I have and have read Asimov's Foundation and I, Robot. "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." What a great line. I may read them again, so I was going to wait to list them. I've had for some time a book by the good doctor called A Choice of Catastrophes wherein he narrates various ways in which the world can be destroyed. I've read the Lord of the Rings books and The Hobbit but for whatever reason haven't listed them.

Oh, and I've seen a tv show about Christian the Lion.

Nice talking with you, Kevin

posted by KevinTexas at 7:45 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2009