My nine female rats are doing fine and behaving like little angels. They haven’t tried chewing out of the screen, and I let them stay out atop their habitat and in the glass terrarium for at least 14 hours every day, without hitch or hiccup. They haven’t tried to get down onto the […]
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Yesterday I drove to Seattle for my final post-op panniculectomy visit with surgeon Sarah Goldsberry-Long. It was a fabulous visit. She is very pleased with the results (as I am), and the Board (not sure which Board, but perhaps Board of Reconstructive Surgery?) has selected my case (chest masculinization/panniculectomy surgeries) to showcase her abilities.
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COVID KILLS I just received word that a good friend and excellent service provider has died from COVID. I am both sad and livid. Do you remember about a year ago when Lisa and I had a shed built in my back yard? To accomplish this, Ben Taylor recruited several of his friends
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The Rats Vote — Paper or Pine Chips? I decided to leave the decision up to the rats. Here’s how they voted when I used pine shavings in their playpen and paper in their condo. Paws down — they prefer the unbleached paper (specifically, CareFresh Small Pet Bedding). Oi vey. Of course. I
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Bike Riding Again I feel like a kid on Christmas morning. Today I get to ride my ride again after a long month off it post-surgery. I can’t wait!!! Alas, I have to for a couple more hours. We’re going around 10 a.m. Lisa will get here an hour or so before
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CenturyLink INTERNET IS DOWN AGAIN…UGH!! CenturyLink is down again – has been for almost a full day. GRRR!!! They hope to restore service sometime today. I know there was a big fire in downtown Tacoma in the past day or so which caused some of the internet companies to go
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Yesterday Lisa and I tracked down a large glass-enclosed terrarium-type habitat in Spanaway for my nine rats. It’s a lot smaller than the cage I adapted for them, but it’s satisfactory. They will have an exercise wheel in it before noon today and I will create a playpen area for them outside the cage
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The 4th of July 2021 I spoke too soon. The 4th of July sounded like Armageddon in this neighborhood. My goats were so scared, they crammed themselves underneath the platform where they usually sleep at night, butts facing outward. I felt so sorry for them… Charli and Patches came in and
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Happy 4th of July — Independence Day I’m delighted to report that most of the people in my neighborhood are refraining from setting off fireworks in these tinder-dry conditions. I heard some last night, but they appeared to be quite far away. It’s illegal to shoot them off this year except in
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Wearing JP Drainage Tubes is Getting Old Let me go on record today as being officially tired of wearing JP drainage tubes. (JP is shorthand for Jackson-Pratt.) It has been three weeks and two days since my panniculectomy surgery and my JP tubes are still draining excess fluids away from the area.
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