Evening report, with cat pix and flix
Jul. 8th, 2008 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterAfter work today, I headed down to the Animal Care Center on South Campbell to visit with Diva, the orange moggie I will be adopting on Friday. I took some photos; here's the Flickr set. While there I asked the vet about her background. Apparently she used to belong to a family, and they had boarded her with the vet, then for whatever reason not been able to pick her back up again. (The vet suggested they might not have been able to pay their boarding fee, but he didn't sound too certain about that, and I would hate to think that a boarded pet might get "repossessed" for nonpayment. Makes me feel kind of dirty.)
I also took some low-rez cellphone videos, which I have put on YouTube.
After that, I headed over to Wal-Mart to check their pet supplies, and to look at snagging a few things like towels for liners for the cats' beds. I was disheartened to find that even their cheapest towel was $2.75. I did see a decent-looking cat tower for $35; the only problem being you have to assemble it yourself. I'm a bit hesitant to consider something like that for fear of what might happen if it turns out not to be sturdy enough. Benjamin is going to be a pretty heavy cat. After that, I headed on over to PetSmart to take a look at their pet stuff. There were some great pre-made tall "cat condos" there—and I really want to get a tall one, for Benjamin to climb on—but they were all in the $100 plus range and I'm not sure I can afford that.
I was going to go up to Bed, Bath, and Beyond to see what their towels cost, but first I checked out the local Deal$. (Or, as I like to call it, "Deal String") At first I wasn't too sure I'd find anything worthwhile; ever since they stopped being an "everything $1 or less" store and turned into an "everything $5 or less" store it's been a bit hard to be sure you're getting as good a deal as you hope you are. They had some towels for $3—even worse than Wal-Mart's. But then I noticed something in the next aisle over, and discovered some wonderfully soft 30" x 30" baby blankets for $1 each. So I bought four of them: one for each cat bed, and a spare for when I'm laundering the first ones. Two of them say "Giddy-Up" with a little horseshoe or "Ride 'em Cowboy" with a little cowboy hat, the other two of have what is either a dog or a cow standing on a little circus pedestal with one leg in the air and juggling, but I'm sure the cats won't mind. I also picked up some ceramic food/water dishes and a Hamtaro DVD, among other things.
In Deal$'s grocery section, I saw something I could not resist photographing: some cheap Oriental instant noodles with rather…interesting packaging.
I didn't get much shopping done tonight, or any room cleaning either, but I guess that can wait for tomorrow. I don't have too much more to do—just shove everything out of the way, vacuum, and spray.
In some more annoying news, I dropped off about six sets of negatives at Walgreens today for transfer to a photo DVD. They charged me $42 bucks for it—but when I got it back home and put it in my drive, I found it only had about one roll's worth of prints on it. I'm going back tomorrow morning to give them what for. In the meanwhile, I went ahead and uploaded what photos there were to Flickr (along with a bunch of photos I'd been meaning to transfer up from my cellphone for quite a while).
Well, off to have some dinner and then crash in bed.
I also took some low-rez cellphone videos, which I have put on YouTube.
After that, I headed over to Wal-Mart to check their pet supplies, and to look at snagging a few things like towels for liners for the cats' beds. I was disheartened to find that even their cheapest towel was $2.75. I did see a decent-looking cat tower for $35; the only problem being you have to assemble it yourself. I'm a bit hesitant to consider something like that for fear of what might happen if it turns out not to be sturdy enough. Benjamin is going to be a pretty heavy cat. After that, I headed on over to PetSmart to take a look at their pet stuff. There were some great pre-made tall "cat condos" there—and I really want to get a tall one, for Benjamin to climb on—but they were all in the $100 plus range and I'm not sure I can afford that.
I was going to go up to Bed, Bath, and Beyond to see what their towels cost, but first I checked out the local Deal$. (Or, as I like to call it, "Deal String") At first I wasn't too sure I'd find anything worthwhile; ever since they stopped being an "everything $1 or less" store and turned into an "everything $5 or less" store it's been a bit hard to be sure you're getting as good a deal as you hope you are. They had some towels for $3—even worse than Wal-Mart's. But then I noticed something in the next aisle over, and discovered some wonderfully soft 30" x 30" baby blankets for $1 each. So I bought four of them: one for each cat bed, and a spare for when I'm laundering the first ones. Two of them say "Giddy-Up" with a little horseshoe or "Ride 'em Cowboy" with a little cowboy hat, the other two of have what is either a dog or a cow standing on a little circus pedestal with one leg in the air and juggling, but I'm sure the cats won't mind. I also picked up some ceramic food/water dishes and a Hamtaro DVD, among other things.
In Deal$'s grocery section, I saw something I could not resist photographing: some cheap Oriental instant noodles with rather…interesting packaging.
I didn't get much shopping done tonight, or any room cleaning either, but I guess that can wait for tomorrow. I don't have too much more to do—just shove everything out of the way, vacuum, and spray.
In some more annoying news, I dropped off about six sets of negatives at Walgreens today for transfer to a photo DVD. They charged me $42 bucks for it—but when I got it back home and put it in my drive, I found it only had about one roll's worth of prints on it. I'm going back tomorrow morning to give them what for. In the meanwhile, I went ahead and uploaded what photos there were to Flickr (along with a bunch of photos I'd been meaning to transfer up from my cellphone for quite a while).
Well, off to have some dinner and then crash in bed.
