My computer has been having daily issues of late and it got to be a scary proposition as to whether it would turn on or not every day. Don picked out a new computer and we got it in the house 6/19/09. Milo is fascinated with all the boxes of course. Yesterday, he went to sleep in front of the new monitor so he now feels he owns it as he has sat patiently during all the installation of programs, teaching Linda new tricks on this new powerful Vista, and coming up with Excel spreadsheets to list all the things the humans thought they needed to do still on this new P.C. Man, this thing is powerful and it turns on when you want it to!!!!!!!!!! That is a really great thing to me after the last few weeks of babying one along to get it on. It has 640 Gigabytes of storage and 7 Gigabytes of memory (RAM). It also can burn DVDs and CDs and has a 15 in 1 memory card reader (For my pictures, it can read 15 different memory cards with the pictures on them that I want fed into the computer.) It also has Microsoft Office 7 on it for 60 days until I need to buy it. These products convert to older products at the click of a mouse!!! I just can't believe it. All the things I was afraid I would be without for a time are here in the here and now. I'm having such great fun with it and I think Milo likes it too as he has had an additional admirer around now for a few days. He loves Don (he thinks he might be related since his first addoptive mom was Don's daughter) and Milo is very loving to Don. So he is enjoying his time observing all the goings-on with setting up the P.C. No, we're not done yet but it is getting there pretty fast. The problem we ran into was that there is a receiver in the back that was supposed to be in the box to make the wireless keyboard and mouse work but this receiver was not there. We had to use an old wired keyboard and mouse to do the startup on the P.C. and we are being sent a whole new receiver, mouse and keyboard by the manufacturer. But it works just great using the wired items. I may like that better as I might lose anything not connected to the P. C. No telling what Milo can do with a mouse sitting without connection of any sort to anything.
Anyway, both Milo and I are having fun with this great new addition to the household.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
2009/06/18
Milo didn't make it through much of the shower today. He preferred to watch the water from outside the shower stall. Maybe he was tired because Don and I kept him up too late last night working on the p.c.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
2009/06/10
I almost got a picture of Milo staring at the shower nozzle this week. He sat and stared at it for literally minutes day before yesterday and it would have been the perfect picture of his love of dripping water. But the instant I got in there with the camera ready, he bolted. I now have the camera laying on the cabinet in the bathroom in case I get another chance at a similar one. He has been really jealous of Grayson lately and I wish he would stop it as Grayson is getting old and arthritic and I feel sure Milo's attacks aren't doing him any good. I protect Gray when I am home but what happens when I am not.
The above pictures show Milo in "my" new office chair. He loves it as a bed - day or night. I am trying to wait for him to find another spot that he likes better but so far, he is very happy that I bought him this new bed. The other picture is of him waiting under the shower bench for me to come take my morning shower. It is a daily sight and if I can't find him for breakfast, this is normally where he is. What a cutie!!!
Milo also hit the master switch for the p.c. day before yesterday. He got gung ho about attacking the printer and cut everything off. He is a pistol when he has something in mind to do and he is so very fast, there is no stopping him. Don also put a new handset cord into the phone in the p.c. room and it is quite long. Milo thinks it is a snake or a new toy for him so he is now attacking that also. I have it up off the floor right now so I can have a little peace as I sit here typing.
By the way, Milo is into eating the cat grass now. He goes out every afternoon and munches on it. I told him I knew he would grow to love his salad and he has. I have replanted it into real pots that have a wider rim and we'll see if it fills the pot up. I can tell you it is certainly some tall stuff.
The above pictures show Milo in "my" new office chair. He loves it as a bed - day or night. I am trying to wait for him to find another spot that he likes better but so far, he is very happy that I bought him this new bed. The other picture is of him waiting under the shower bench for me to come take my morning shower. It is a daily sight and if I can't find him for breakfast, this is normally where he is. What a cutie!!!
Milo also hit the master switch for the p.c. day before yesterday. He got gung ho about attacking the printer and cut everything off. He is a pistol when he has something in mind to do and he is so very fast, there is no stopping him. Don also put a new handset cord into the phone in the p.c. room and it is quite long. Milo thinks it is a snake or a new toy for him so he is now attacking that also. I have it up off the floor right now so I can have a little peace as I sit here typing.
By the way, Milo is into eating the cat grass now. He goes out every afternoon and munches on it. I told him I knew he would grow to love his salad and he has. I have replanted it into real pots that have a wider rim and we'll see if it fills the pot up. I can tell you it is certainly some tall stuff.
Friday, May 29, 2009
2009/05/29
Mr. Milo missed out on the shower this morning and he regretted it greatly. I tried and tried to find him to let him know it was time but Mr. Stubborn would not let me know where he was. Just as I was stepping out of the bathroom after the shower, he came racing down the hall only to be met with disappointment. I will have to go run him some shower water before bed so he can get his daily shower "fix".
I did run the shower water for Mr. Milo. He sat right at the nozzle which I let dangle almost to the floor so I aimed it away from him. He was fascinated by the water coming out of the nozzle. Then he ran for under the shower bench. He stayed there the whole 90 seconds or so that I let the water run. I also made the nozzle put water out near my little cat and he started to attack the edge of it. Then I would make the water retreat by backing up where the nozzle put out the water. I believe he was so proud of himself for finally pushing the water back. We'll try again tomorrow. Such a great baby.
I did run the shower water for Mr. Milo. He sat right at the nozzle which I let dangle almost to the floor so I aimed it away from him. He was fascinated by the water coming out of the nozzle. Then he ran for under the shower bench. He stayed there the whole 90 seconds or so that I let the water run. I also made the nozzle put water out near my little cat and he started to attack the edge of it. Then I would make the water retreat by backing up where the nozzle put out the water. I believe he was so proud of himself for finally pushing the water back. We'll try again tomorrow. Such a great baby.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
2009/05/24 Milo's Food Strike
Milo raced to the shower first thing and refused to come out to eat. I even took food to him IN the shower and he just looked at me like I had 2 heads. He sat very calmly at the edge of the stall with his front feet curled up under himself so he looked like the Sphinx in Egypt. No way was he eating until I took a shower and he got to fight the water. Sometimes I am tempted (or even do) to take 2 showers a day because he seems to enjoy the game of it so much.
He is also disgusted that Grayson is coming out of hiding more often and EVEN has the AUDACITY to try and sleep on my bed (which Milo thinks is just his and mine - no Grayson allowed). Gray has fallen in love with the blanket Julie gave me for Christmas. Trouble is, it is my favorite as well so I am trying to get him to understand he can have another blanket, just not that one. I am having to move him off it every night which makes me feel bad. Gray asks for very little (except a 3 a.m. feeding every now and then) and I don't like to deny him what little he does ask for. I will likely try and find myself another blanket to love and give in to him before it is over. But for now, I am trying to maintain that I get to own something in the house.
Milo jumped up on my lap the other night as he does often, but this time he missed the mark by a hair and his hind feet (with claws) skidded down the side of my right thigh. HURT, I do say. I put peroxide on the wound for the first day or two and now I am putting Neosporin and bandages on the scratch every day as I can't stand for it to rub against my clothes. It is feeling a lot better now but cat scratches hurt exceedingly bad. Poor baby, he didn't know what he had done and he certainly didn't mean to do it, but now I am a little wary of him when he jumps on me. I am watching out for those hind feet with their claws, for sure.
Thursday, I knew I wanted to print something that was 28 pages so I closed the door to the "pc room" and told Bertha we needed to let something print before letting Milo in there. I went to pick up the document and there sat Milo staring into the guts of the printer fully ready to attack. I told Bertha I had locked the fox in the hen house and was probably lucky the little scamp still had his feet as he tries to stick them into the printer so he can stop all the lights, movement, and sound (I reckon).
All children should be so loved as these two cat-boys.
He is also disgusted that Grayson is coming out of hiding more often and EVEN has the AUDACITY to try and sleep on my bed (which Milo thinks is just his and mine - no Grayson allowed). Gray has fallen in love with the blanket Julie gave me for Christmas. Trouble is, it is my favorite as well so I am trying to get him to understand he can have another blanket, just not that one. I am having to move him off it every night which makes me feel bad. Gray asks for very little (except a 3 a.m. feeding every now and then) and I don't like to deny him what little he does ask for. I will likely try and find myself another blanket to love and give in to him before it is over. But for now, I am trying to maintain that I get to own something in the house.
Milo jumped up on my lap the other night as he does often, but this time he missed the mark by a hair and his hind feet (with claws) skidded down the side of my right thigh. HURT, I do say. I put peroxide on the wound for the first day or two and now I am putting Neosporin and bandages on the scratch every day as I can't stand for it to rub against my clothes. It is feeling a lot better now but cat scratches hurt exceedingly bad. Poor baby, he didn't know what he had done and he certainly didn't mean to do it, but now I am a little wary of him when he jumps on me. I am watching out for those hind feet with their claws, for sure.
Thursday, I knew I wanted to print something that was 28 pages so I closed the door to the "pc room" and told Bertha we needed to let something print before letting Milo in there. I went to pick up the document and there sat Milo staring into the guts of the printer fully ready to attack. I told Bertha I had locked the fox in the hen house and was probably lucky the little scamp still had his feet as he tries to stick them into the printer so he can stop all the lights, movement, and sound (I reckon).
All children should be so loved as these two cat-boys.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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