Even after the sedative started to take hold, Oona reached for me. I miss her so much.

Apart from Oona trying to escape the basement, forcing me to wrangle her much more aggressively than she deserved in her declining condition, it was generally a peaceful end for our sweet Oona. Oona girl. Oonster. The sheriff of Big Pink.

But Oona kept losing weight anyway, and in the week following her final vet trip, she started withdrawing from us, whining in pain. She was telling us it was time, we told ourselves.

We arranged for a vet from lovingkindnessvet.com to visit yesterday afternoon.

That fine line between inflammatory bowel disease and small cell lymphoma is a familiar one to vets and many cat owners. Oona’s vet referred her to an internal medicine specialist, who put her on three meds that honestly worked some magic on her energy and appetite.

Chick-fil-Aerosmith

“Delivered the news” is doing a lot of work there, when receiving “the news” wasn’t the reason somebody called customer service in the first place. it’s hardly a “Don’t shoot the messenger” type of situation.

If you send the document to someone on a Mac, they can print to PDF and send it back to you. Acrobat isn’t required for creating PDFs on a Mac.

They couldn’t make the assault with a deli weapon charge stick?

$11 ZZQ, which is only a few bucks more than the average cafeteria lunch at work. I’ll take it.