Darkoshi

This reddit shows a cool video of a landslide with trees sliding and tumbling down a mountainside: I see movement ahead

It is from 2004: Massive landslide in Japan, recorded on video!

YouTube has a more complete video of it with sound.


(It reminded me of the video of trees on the march linked to here.)

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Here's the funniest/cutest Cat video I've seen all week (says a person who doesn't regularly watch such videos, as otherwise I'd never get anything done).

And here's a funny/cute dog video: Family Tries To Convince Their Giant Alaskan Malamute To Get In The Bath

flares of bright green growing ever larger
on the tips of the fig tree branches

bright yellows along the fence
and in the flower beds

i do not want to speak of the stray black cat
found dead under the wisteria bush
outside the fence
as i returned from my walk last week

the sky was colorful from the setting sun
the trees in the median were blooming white
the air smelled of pollen
as i walked, enjoying it,
and i planned to walk further
before I noticed that something black by the bush.

Yesterday when looking through the motion-activated clips from the video cams, I was a bit surprised to see what looked like the same white pick-up truck driving by several times in a row.

Today I was surprised to see six.. SIX!!! cats cavorting in my front yard. The last couple of weeks, I'd been smelling cat urine outside the front & side & garage doors. I'd also heard a cat yowling at night. But I'd thought it was a single cat. SIX!!! Although it may be a single female cat, being following around by all the male cats in the neighborhood.

Yesterday, I'd considered calling the county's Animal Care number to ask about their trap-neuter-return program. But that's when I thought there was one cat. How the heck would you catch 6 cats, or if only one, the right one?

There's an "End Road Work" sign across the street which was put up months ago and is still there, even though no road work has been done. At first the sign was taped over with black plastic, but that has since blown away. I suppose they were planning to do some roadwork originally, but it must have been delayed.

Someone put up a small new sign underneath it. I squinted at it through my window to see what it says. "Cats in the Bushes" ?

I looked again. "Cash for Houses"

Hmm. The first version was more interesting.

This Cat Photo is rather mesmerizing.

Since people have been posting kitten pix, it made me want to post one of Juniper-kitty:



That was one of the very few I managed to take, where she wasn't a moving blur. She's still getting along well with the puppy-dog, last I heard.

I'm so tired and busy, that by the time I have time to write in my journal, it no longer seems important to do so.

I came home, wanting to mow (whack?) my grass. (I use a weed-wacker.) I was looking forward to cutting the grass, so that when it started raining, I was disappointed. Isn't that weird? It's not that I truly enjoy cutting grass, but I want to make my yard look good. I don't want to contribute to making the neighborhood look bad by having an unkempt-looking yard. Even though personally, I prefer wild-growing grass to short-shorn grass, it now bothers me, not having my grass short.

I got Forestfen a good deal on DSL, to replace the previous account I had at her house. It's only $10 a month, with a 12-month term agreement. It's the "lite" DSL, but I think it is fast enough for her purposes. Wish I could have gotten a deal like that at my new house (I'm paying 3 times as much, and it will go up to 4x as much later on), but it's not available here.

Yesterday and today at work, I wrote myself a webpage with javascript for converting byte-arrays of EBCDIC codes in signed-integer format to ASCII. The Eclipse debugger displays the byte-arrays as signed numbers, and since most EBCDIC tables only include unsigned-integer or hex codes, it was difficult to decipher them. Now I just have to copy & paste & click a button. If I had a lot of free time, I could try coding an Eclipse plugin to do it automatically within the debugger.

Maybe I should download Eclipse to my home computer. I was playing with one of my old audio programs yesterday, and it was having problems. I could re-code it in Java.... but that would take time and effort, which I need to spend on other things for now.

Like mowing grass. And figuring out how to get tile layed down in my washer-dryer area. And getting a washer & dryer. And getting electrical stuff done. And paint. And plumbing. And towel racks. I'm beginning to think I might not get some of this stuff done this year. Maybe I ought to just let things be and relax.

I am crying, and there is no reason for it. I just feel unaccountably sad of a sudden.

Or maybe there's a reason, and it just isn't clear to me.

Even if I find a person or shelter to take the kitten, I know that just means one less home for some other cat or kitten somewhere, and that some other one will end up being euthanized instead of this one.

But I don't think that is why I feel like crying.

I don't know why I'm doing all this.

There was a squirrel in the bird-feeder.

It's a holiday. Pretty quiet so far.

Grass is growing.

Oh gosh. The shelter isn't taking any kittens for the next 10 days because they had a sick one and have to disinfect.

I want to let the kitten in my house. It seems so lonely. I was able to pet it earlier this morning. Should I let it inside? I guess I have to, right? Can't just leave it out there for 10 days, right?

Oh gosh. Then I would need a litter box. As well as the container of vegekit nutrient powder at Forestfen's. I wonder if that stuff is still potent; it is so old.

(Wow, the restore-from-draft feature actually worked this time, after my browser locked up.)

There's a kitten under the juniper bushes inside my fence. It started mewing loudly when I walked by. I don't see any other kittens or a momma-cat around.

Must resist the urge to coax the kitten out of hiding and pet it and pick it up and feed it. I don't want to have a cat, as cute as they are. I already put a bowl of water down for it, just in case it is dying of thirst.

Hopefully it just wandered away from its owner or parent-cat and will soon find its way back. I wouldn't want to take it to a shelter and then find out a neighbor is looking for it.