Life...

[Cipher]

The last 24 hours have been interesting.

Fire in Back Bay section of Boston: Paid day off from the day job. I got
up at 1030EDT.

It was a bloodbath (figuratively) at the night job. The people in the
top five positions are all gone. There's a new director.

Whatever could be the reason? The blind incompetence? The sexual
harassment and subsequent cover-up? They were set up for this year's
ACCET audit only to be wiped away when we passed?

Tonight will be curious.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring...

--
The word "urgent" is the moral of the story "The boy who cried wolf". As
a general rule I don't believe it until a manager comes to me almost in
tears. I like to catch them in a cup and drink them later.
-- Matt Holiab, in the Monastery

[Joe Zeff]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:01:52 -0400, Cipher wrote:

> I wonder what tomorrow will bring...

Well, I'm sure we've all been waiting for updates.

--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info
It was long ago, and far away; and besides, the wench is Fred.

[stevo]

Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:01:52 -0400, Cipher wrote:
>
>> I wonder what tomorrow will bring...
>
> Well, I'm sure we've all been waiting for updates.
>

Indeed.

Traffic in this froup has been very quiet of late.

Remember the good old days of dozens of posts a day?


--
Stevo st...@madcelt.org

[Lawns 'R' Us]

Yeah. It's rather frustrating - some of us now actually have to
*work*! The horror! The horror!

[Niklas Karlsson]

On 2012-03-22, stevo <st...@madcelt.org> wrote:

I'm sure if you post something about g*n c*ntr*l, p*bl*c tr*nsp*rt or
s*x, there'll be plenty of posting.

And new coordinates for the OADS.

Niklas
--
"But when your parts are 4 and 6" big, and massively oversized for the job, and
designed for servicing by chimpanzees (which is not to say the people that do,
are), it's a lot easier to get things in a vague approximation of right."
-- Jasper Janssen

[Cipher]

On 3/21/2012 11:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:01:52 -0400, Cipher wrote:
>
>> I wonder what tomorrow will bring...
>
> Well, I'm sure we've all been waiting for updates.

Eh, not much to tell for the night job. The reason we've been given is
"Budget reasons" but that's total bullshit on it s face:
* 2nd in command was having an affair with an underling
* Instructor who found out was fired for no good reason
* Site coordinator got them through ACCET[1] and is no longer needed
* One claimed she did nothing all day - no shocker
* Career services didn't service and got no one a career
* Tech services was blindly incompetent[2]

Change to my job? Nothing.

We'll see, I guess.



[1] The place that certifies us so the credits will roll over to a real
college
[2] I had to threaten him with real violence to get him to do his job.
It's a wonder I wasn't fired.

[Niklas Karlsson]

On 2012-03-22, Cipher <nota...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> * Tech services was blindly incompetent[2]

> [2] I had to threaten him with real violence to get him to do his job.
> It's a wonder I wasn't fired.

Nicely done. What did said job consist of in this case?

Niklas
--
If infinite rednecks fired infinite shotguns at an infinite number of road
signs, they'd eventually create all the great literary works of the world in
braille. --Discordian Quote File

[Jay E. Morris]

On 3/22/2012 4:20 AM, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
> On 2012-03-22, stevo<st...@madcelt.org> wrote:
>> Joe Zeff<the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:01:52 -0400, Cipher wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wonder what tomorrow will bring...
>>>
>>> Well, I'm sure we've all been waiting for updates.
>>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> Traffic in this froup has been very quiet of late.
>>
>> Remember the good old days of dozens of posts a day?
>
> I'm sure if you post something about g*n c*ntr*l, p*bl*c tr*nsp*rt or
> s*x, there'll be plenty of posting.
>
> And new coordinates for the OADS.
>
> Niklas

Ok. I think six is highly overrated.

[David Taylor]

On 2012-03-22, Jay E. Morris <mor...@epsilon3.com> wrote:
> On 3/22/2012 4:20 AM, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
>>
>> I'm sure if you post something about g*n c*ntr*l, p*bl*c tr*nsp*rt or
>> s*x, there'll be plenty of posting.
>

> Ok. I think six is highly overrated.

Sax IS highly controversial, however.

--
David Taylor

[Niklas Karlsson]

On 2012-03-22, Jay E. Morris <mor...@epsilon3.com> wrote:

True, and tonic water with a bit of lemon juice tends to keep the gin
well under control.

Niklas
--
>I've wondered recently why it's not feasible to make large passenger planes
>capable of water landing.
Well, they keep having to replace all the seat cushions, for one
thing... -- Mike Sphar and Mark Hughes in asr

[c...@nospam.netunix.com]

Jay E. Morris <mor...@epsilon3.com> wrote:
> >>

> >> Traffic in this froup has been very quiet of late.
> >>
> >> Remember the good old days of dozens of posts a day?
> >
> > I'm sure if you post something about g*n c*ntr*l, p*bl*c tr*nsp*rt or
> > s*x, there'll be plenty of posting.
> >
> > And new coordinates for the OADS.
> >
> > Niklas
>
> Ok. I think six is highly overrated.

You forgot to mention floor numbering.

--
From the quill of Chris Newport g4jci.

[Niklas Karlsson]

I'm still wondering when someone will post a story of how they had sex
at gunpoint on a double-decker bus with numbered levels.

Niklas
--
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.--Charles Babbage

[Peter Corlett]

c...@NOSPAM.netunix.com> wrote:
[...]

> You forgot to mention floor numbering.

We could always take a tip from Stan Kelly-Bootle and number our floors from 0.5...

[Paul]

David Taylor <davidt...@yadt.co.uk> wrote in
news:slrnjmma9k.pbk...@crucible.yadt.co.uk:

I feel the tenor of that statement, but I could baritone or two.

--
Paul the Legacy Server
Full Recovery reached May 30, 2008
"People can be educated beyond their intelligence"
-- Marilyn vos Savant

[Mike Andrews]

Paul <pssa...@comcast.net.invalid> wrote in <XnsA01E775...@88.198.244.100>:

> David Taylor <davidt...@yadt.co.uk> wrote in
> news:slrnjmma9k.pbk...@crucible.yadt.co.uk:
>
>> On 2012-03-22, Jay E. Morris <mor...@epsilon3.com> wrote:
>>> On 3/22/2012 4:20 AM, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure if you post something about g*n c*ntr*l, p*bl*c
>>>> tr*nsp*rt or s*x, there'll be plenty of posting.
>>>
>>> Ok. I think six is highly overrated.
>>
>> Sax IS highly controversial, however.
>
> I feel the tenor of that statement, but I could baritone or two.

An ill reed that nobody blows good.

--
"Once one has achieved full endarkenment, one is happy to have an entirely
nonfunctional computer" - Steve VanDevender, ASR

[Lieven Marchand]

stevo <st...@madcelt.org> writes:

> Traffic in this froup has been very quiet of late.
>
> Remember the good old days of dozens of posts a day?

And that was only Lionel by himself.

[Peter Corlett]

No worries, he's doing just fine in the Other Place.

I must admit, I rather miss Tanuki's musings. The lucky bastard has clearly
gone and got himself a life instead.

[Mike Andrews]

Peter Corlett <ab...@mooli.org.uk> wrote in <jkfq26$84r$1...@mooli.org.uk>:

That was what he wrote to me, some time back, when I asked after his
health and mentioned that his presence was desired rather a lot more than
his absence. He gave me the impression that he was doing something that
required a lot of heads-down effort, not that he had left because of
tensions here.

--
Mike Andrews / Michael Fenwick Barony of Namron, Ansteorra
mi...@mikea.ath.cx / Amateur Extra radio operator W5EGO
Tired old music Laurel; Chirurgeon; SCAdian since AS XI
Listowner, SCA-Laurels

[Joe Zeff]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:46:29 +0000, crn wrote:

> You forgot to mention floor numbering.

The main building at the Sepulveda VA is built into the side of a hill
and has three floors. You can enter the lowest floor only at the front
of the building and you can enter the next floor only at the back. The
top floor has no entrances or exits except for stairs and elevators.
Which one is the ground floor?

--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info

If you want to do this, the best way is in the nude,
sitting in the bathtub.

[E.P.Sporgersi]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:56:08 +0000, Joe Zeff wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:46:29 +0000, crn wrote:
>
>> You forgot to mention floor numbering.
>
> The main building at the Sepulveda VA is built into the side of a hill
> and has three floors. You can enter the lowest floor only at the front
> of the building and you can enter the next floor only at the back. The
> top floor has no entrances or exits except for stairs and elevators.
> Which one is the ground floor?

They're *all* the Ground Floor, even the top floor, because bruce thought
it'd be confusing otherwise.

[Julian Macassey]

On 22 Mar 2012 18:56:08 GMT, Joe Zeff

<the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:46:29 +0000, crn wrote:
>
>> You forgot to mention floor numbering.
>
> The main building at the Sepulveda VA is built into the side of a hill
> and has three floors. You can enter the lowest floor only at the front
> of the building and you can enter the next floor only at the back. The
> top floor has no entrances or exits except for stairs and elevators.
> Which one is the ground floor?

There are many buildings around LA like that. Some have
two fron entrances, one at the bottom of the hill, and one at the
top.

In the Hollywood Hills, many houses enter to the public
rooms, with the bedrooms downstairs.




--
"He has been a good man, a good friend and ally to the United States,
we need to remember that." Dick Cheney about Hosni Mubarak Feb 5 2011

[Joe Zeff]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:58:56 +0000, Julian Macassey wrote:

> In the Hollywood Hills, many houses enter to the public
> rooms, with the bedrooms downstairs.

For many years, there was a house on Mullholland Drive built on the down-
hill side of the street that had a carport on the roof because that was
the only place to put it. The lot was so steep that the roof and carport
were the only parts of the building visible from the street. For all I
know, it's still there, but I haven't been past it in a long time.

--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info

Sometimes, if you wanted to go to the ball,
you had to be your own fairy godmother.

[Seth]

In article <4f6b9eb6$0$2867$a826...@newsreader.readnews.com>,

Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:58:56 +0000, Julian Macassey wrote:
>
>> In the Hollywood Hills, many houses enter to the public
>> rooms, with the bedrooms downstairs.
>
>For many years, there was a house on Mullholland Drive built on the down-
>hill side of the street that had a carport on the roof because that was
>the only place to put it.

I hadn't realized Heinlein wrote a documentary.

Seth

[Cipher]

On 3/22/2012 8:33 AM, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
> On 2012-03-22, Cipher<nota...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> * Tech services was blindly incompetent[2]
>
>> [2] I had to threaten him with real violence to get him to do his job.
>> It's a wonder I wasn't fired.
>
> Nicely done. What did said job consist of in this case?

His? Near as I can tell hiding in the tech area and putting shelving
together. Well, and lying to my face about things he knows I'd know was
a lie. And not fixing the student machines we use for the labs.

Mine? Trying to train shiny new techs to be clueful and cynical about
people and their motivations before they hit the real world.

[Joe Zeff]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:00:20 +0000, Seth wrote:

> I hadn't realized Heinlein wrote a documentary.

The Crooked House was on Lookout Mountain Dr. which is a side street of
Laurel Canyon, south of Mullholland.

--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info

It is impossible to train a cat not to do something.It is only possible
to train it not to get caught.

[stevo]

And then there was Skud, Ingvar and DPM.

--
Stevo st...@madcelt.org

[Kevin Goebel]

... or elevator housing, but that's another story.

Kevin Goebel

[Joe Zeff]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:50:08 -0500, Jay E. Morris wrote:

> Ok. I think six is highly overrated.

I am not a number! I am a free man!

--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info

If you haven't got time to RTFM, you
haven't got time to whine on Usenet about it.

[LP]

On 2012-03-23, Kevin Goebel <kevi...@kevingoebel.com> wrote:
>
> ... or elevator housing, but that's another story.

Elevator Housing you say? Reminds me of this prank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdIrBOG2upM

In other news, my current feline overlord is unwell (hair loss and
refusal to eat/drink) so I've spent a lot of time (and an increasing
amount of money!) at the vet this week.

I'm also annoyed with myself because I found the pet insurance renewal
letter while I was digging out the contact details for the vet.

It seems her insurance expired about 2 months ago, because I'd been
spending too much time working and not enough time keeping on top of
my home paperwork.

So I'm going to distance myself from the zlfdy pyhfgre rant I've got
brewing, and spend the weekend distracting myself with my strowger
kit instead.

-Paul
--
http://paulseward.com

[Joe Thompson]

On 2012-03-22, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:00:20 +0000, Seth wrote:
>
>> I hadn't realized Heinlein wrote a documentary.
>
> The Crooked House was on Lookout Mountain Dr. which is a side street of
> Laurel Canyon, south of Mullholland.

I thought it was in the Midlands...

http://www.sedgleymanor.com/historical/crooked_house.html

-- Joe
--
Joe Thompson | Sysadmin - Scientificist
E-mail addresses in headers are valid. | http://www.orion-com.com/
"There is no way my emacs is ever getting a credit card!" -- Matthew Vernon

[Paul]

Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote in
news:4f6c18d7$0$2746$a826...@newsreader.readnews.com:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:50:08 -0500, Jay E. Morris wrote:
>
>> Ok. I think six is highly overrated.
>
> I am not a number! I am a free man!

You are in the village.

[Joe Zeff]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:27:31 +0000, Joe Thompson wrote:

> On 2012-03-22, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:00:20 +0000, Seth wrote:
>>
>>> I hadn't realized Heinlein wrote a documentary.
>>
>> The Crooked House was on Lookout Mountain Dr. which is a side street of
>> Laurel Canyon, south of Mullholland.
>
> I thought it was in the Midlands...
>
> http://www.sedgleymanor.com/historical/crooked_house.html
>

The fact that there's a building known as "The Crooked House" somewhere
in England doesn't change the fact that Heinlein specified that the house
in his story was built on Lookout Mountain Drive.

--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info

It's not what they call you, it's what you answer to.

[Alan J. Wylie]

LP <use...@lpbk.net> writes:

> In other news, my current feline overlord is unwell (hair loss and
> refusal to eat/drink)

Hyperthyroidism? That was diagnosed in one of my feline friends last
week. He's 18, so it was actually quite a relief to discover it was
treatable.

He's eating the cheese wrapped Methimazole pills OK, and seems to be
making a good recovery so far.

--
Alan J. Wylie http://www.wylie.me.uk/

[Joe Thompson]

On 2012-03-23, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:27:31 +0000, Joe Thompson wrote:
>
>> On 2012-03-22, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:00:20 +0000, Seth wrote:
>>>
>>>> I hadn't realized Heinlein wrote a documentary.
>>>
>>> The Crooked House was on Lookout Mountain Dr. which is a side street of
>>> Laurel Canyon, south of Mullholland.
>>
>> I thought it was in the Midlands...
>>
>> http://www.sedgleymanor.com/historical/crooked_house.html
>>
>
> The fact that there's a building known as "The Crooked House" somewhere
> in England doesn't change the fact that Heinlein specified that the house
> in his story was built on Lookout Mountain Drive.

Yes, but the one actually exists, you see, and is actually quite
crooked.

(Although, it's *just* possible the events of the Heinlein story are
true, in which case Teal's folly *used* to exist..) -- Joe

[Joe Thompson]

Alderman Library at UVa is built into the side of a hill, in two
sections: Old Stacks and New Stacks. The floors are numbered with
intervening "mezzanine" levels, that don't line up. So as you go down
the (steep, narrow) stairwell in the center of the library, you pass
4, 3M, 3, 2M... The main entrance is on the fourth floor.

http://goo.gl/MiIMg

[Peter Corlett]

Paul <pssa...@comcast.net.INVALID> wrote:

> Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
>> Jay E. Morris wrote:
>>> Ok. I think six is highly overrated.

>> I am not a number! I am a free man!

> You are in the village.

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

[John F. Eldredge]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:42:30 +0100, Gallian wrote:

> al...@wylie.me.uk (Alan J. Wylie) writes:
>
>
>> He's eating the cheese wrapped Methimazole pills OK, and seems to be
>> making a good recovery so far.
>

> Related cat anecdote: giving my cat a pill.
>
> - Grab cat.
>
> - Force open mouth.
>
> - Insert pill.
>
> - Cat swallows
>
> - Cat looks at me "Why did you do that?", and is otherwise unperturbed.
>
> Weirdest experience ever. First cat I ever met that just took his pill
> with nothing more than slight irritation.
>
> Of course, this is Mr. Unflappable, who reacts to the fireworks at New
> Year's Eve with nothing more than twitching ears: "Bah. Noise".
>
> Mart

My experience has been that, if you try to force the cat's mouth open,
you end up with a nice set of fang punctures in your fingers.
Unfortunately, none of the tricks I tried to get that cat to take her
pills worked for long, and I ended up having to have her euthanized.
Infectious anemia is a bad way to go.

--
John F. Eldredge -- jo...@jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly
is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

[Cipher]

On 3/23/2012 5:51 PM, Joe Thompson wrote:
> On 2012-03-22, Peter Corlett<ab...@mooli.org.uk> wrote:
>> c...@NOSPAM.netunix.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> You forgot to mention floor numbering.
>>
>> We could always take a tip from Stan Kelly-Bootle and number our
>> floors from 0.5...
>
> Alderman Library at UVa is built into the side of a hill, in two
> sections: Old Stacks and New Stacks. The floors are numbered with
> intervening "mezzanine" levels, that don't line up. So as you go down
> the (steep, narrow) stairwell in the center of the library, you pass
> 4, 3M, 3, 2M... The main entrance is on the fourth floor.

Similar functionality at $job{day}, where we have 1, 1S, 2...5. Students
will nearly invariably be on 3S and press the button for 3 - which by
foot is quite literally ten feet away and down three steps.

From inside the magical lifting box, the S-buttons are disabled for
this reason, thus making my job of moving servers from 4 to BS[1] much
less entertaining and more like real work.


[1] BS is the library and student center. I concur with this assessment
as the head of that section is, from the descriptions of her behavior,
untreated for schizo affective disorder.[2]
[2] 'tis how IT ended up with one of her employees, a deliciously
intelligent trainer and video software wrangler.

[Lawns 'R' Us]

On 2012-03-23, Paul <pssa...@comcast.net.INVALID> wrote:
> Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote in
> news:4f6c18d7$0$2746$a826...@newsreader.readnews.com:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:50:08 -0500, Jay E. Morris wrote:
>>
>>> Ok. I think six is highly overrated.
>>
>> I am not a number! I am a free man!
>
> You are in the village.

Village... village ... village ... smithy ... village ... hm, I only
have three coins, I'll buy another village.

Yup, the village idiot makes another appearance.

[mlooney]

AdB <ab...@leftmind.net> wrote:
> David Taylor posted thus:
>>Sax IS highly controversial, however.
>
> But at least it's not bagpipes.
>

You say that like it's a bad thing.
--
I'm an aging, white, right of center, geeky, male, dyslexic, veteran,
bipolar, sociopath with Asperger syndrome and a touch of PTSD that mutters.
Most of my meds are to keep me from being a real sociopath.
And you are?

[LP]

On 2012-03-23, Alan J. Wylie <al...@wylie.me.uk> wrote:
> LP <use...@lpbk.net> writes:
>
>> In other news, my current feline overlord is unwell (hair loss and
>> refusal to eat/drink)
>
> Hyperthyroidism? That was diagnosed in one of my feline friends last
> week. He's 18, so it was actually quite a relief to discover it was
> treatable.

She's back home now and eating. A lot. I think she's making up for lost
time (it's quite a relief!)

They've run all manner of blood tests and found nothing. Current thinking
is that she had something viral[1] which had largely cleared up by the time
the vet saw her, and that the hair loss is down to over grooming (possibly
due to feeling uncomfortably hot while virus ridden)

Either way, she's much more herself now. I've taken reference photos of
her bald patches so I can tell in a week or two if there's any regrowth.

> He's eating the cheese wrapped Methimazole pills OK, and seems to be
> making a good recovery so far.

Glad to hear it.

Talking of thyroid, I'm the only member of my immediate family who doesn't
have some kind of thyroid complaint. I think the appropriate word is "yet"

-Paul
[1] default medical response #004
--
http://paulseward.com

[Maarten Wiltink]

"LP" <use...@lpbk.net> wrote in message
news:slrnjn0epv...@lemon.resnet.bris.ac.uk...

> [...] that the hair loss is down to over grooming (possibly

> due to feeling uncomfortably hot while virus ridden)

We had one that in the end would only stop washing himself due to
exhaustion. His fur wasn't dirty to begin with, but his teeth were
so bad that washing *made* him smell. Heartbreaking.

Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink

[Joe Zeff]

My sister's cat, Riv, is on the feline version of Prozac. If we run out,
or she doesn't get her dose[1], she starts obsessively grooming her hind
quarters to the point that she licks most of the fur off of the back of
her hind legs.

[1]Every other night, hidden in a pill pocket. Well hidden because if
she can taste the capsule she'll spit it out.

--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info

I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

[John F. Eldredge]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:39:38 +0000, Joe Zeff wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:42:51 +0200, Maarten Wiltink wrote:
>
>> "LP" <use...@lpbk.net> wrote in message
>> news:slrnjn0epv...@lemon.resnet.bris.ac.uk...
>>
>>> [...] that the hair loss is down to over grooming (possibly due to
>>> feeling uncomfortably hot while virus ridden)
>>
>> We had one that in the end would only stop washing himself due to
>> exhaustion. His fur wasn't dirty to begin with, but his teeth were so
>> bad that washing *made* him smell. Heartbreaking.
>>
>>
> My sister's cat, Riv, is on the feline version of Prozac. If we run
> out, or she doesn't get her dose[1], she starts obsessively grooming her
> hind quarters to the point that she licks most of the fur off of the
> back of her hind legs.
>
> [1]Every other night, hidden in a pill pocket. Well hidden because if
> she can taste the capsule she'll spit it out.

One of my sister's cats is on the feline version of Valium. She grinds
it up and mixes it into moist food. He doesn't seem to mind the flavor,
but will spit out the pill if it isn't ground into a powder. If he
doesn't get his pill, he will pee on anything that isn't in its usual
location, as if he feels that he needs to reestablish his claim to the
territory. The other cat is totally laid-back.