I think I hate people today...

So, I took in a kitten... I saved him from the shelter, I guess. Good thing, too, the one he was headed for is really, really bad. I love him to pieces, and no matter what, I always will. He is about 7 months old, and very energetic, so he's in his "holy terror" stage still... You know, tearing the house apart, chewing on my toes at night, wants to play all of his tiny waking hours (he sleeps 18 of 24), etc.

All in all, it's been highly entertaining. He's adorable... I will never understand what makes people get so angry at animals, particularly baby ones. He has no real behavioral problems whatsoever. He nibbles from time to time, but they outgrow that anyway. I just picked up a sweatshirt that has been on the floor near an area where he sleeps regularly. I automatically smell-checked, having lived with a formerly feral feline. It smelled like me. It'd been there at least four days. There isn't even any hair on it. I'm impressed by his behavior, really.

Anyway, I don't normally take in one at a time, partly because socializing a solitary kitten is not easy for a non-feline creature. So, originally; I was looking into buying a Savannah... what can I say? I miss wild-animal antics in my living room... (did I mention we've been slightly less poor this year? It's been nice to have milk almost every day, and nicer to know that when we don't, it's wholly because of my daughter's voracious appetite) but there is a large part of me who is very acutely aware of the realities of the average cat's life. Many cats are picked out, fun for a while, and subsequently discarded at the local shelter, or worse, abandoned somewhere outside.

I CANNOT understand this behavior AT ALL. It literally sickens me that people abandon their pets. I have been homeless and still managed to provide a home for my pets. I realize that on that one, I had more help than many do. But to drop the poor thing off because "it pees outside of the litterbox", "the baby has allergies", "it smells" etc. These I do not understand. On the other hand, I suppose these pets deserved better than to be owned by assholes such as these... but they usually don't get what they do deserve, a nice loving FOREVER home with someone who accepts them for who they are (animals, people, your expectations need to be realistic). No. Most get a quiet death after you abandon them.

Don't get me wrong, if I had space, and financial resources, I'd take every single one of them. They would never have to endure being regarded as an object ever again. Seriously, I just can't believe how selfish some people are. And worse, how common it apparently is.

Weird

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I wonder...?

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The iPhone is a damn pain in the ass.

Recently, I've come across several nifty little apps that come in both android and iphone versions; the idea being that I can say, create a grocery list that can be added to and edited by an iphone user. This is helpful, because it means my daughter can add things to my list in real time. Especially since I do the majority of the grocery shopping while she's in school. Yay, right? Only here's the thing: adding apps to the iphone is often a long, drawn out process. First, I have to open itunes, which my computer *fucking hates* - as in, itunes often crashes. I have a disturbingly large music and video collection, like 100 gb (you'd be truly amazed at the number of free song promotions you can use, if you're willing to invest the time) so it takes roughly five billion years to load under the best circumstances. Then, as I said before, it often crashes...

Step two is locating the app I want in a sea of irrelevant and pricey apps in itunes, since the free ones are often hidden, if they exist at all (most FREE android apps ARE NOT FREE in itunes).

Step three is making sure the app is backward compatible (that is, installable and runnable on an unlocked and jailbroken iphone 3g updated to ios 4 - don't get me started on the functionality of that one), and waiting for it to download. As I said, my computer does not play well with itunes (or any other apple product, of course). So even though I have high speed access (for distance edu, mind you), the download takes FOREVER.

Then, I get to coax my computer AND itunes into recognizing the iphone (which SHOULD be easy, but never is).

The final major step is the waiting about a million years for itunes to trickle the data over the itty bitty firewire (the only one the damn iphone will accept, since its proprietary). And then coaxing the system into releasing the iphone.

You know, I know I'm a but spoiled by my G2, but jesus... All in all, the process usually takes nearly an hour, if not LONGER.

So, I'm not much a fan of apple these days. I like the fact that I can practically magically add any damn app I want to my phone in SECONDS. EAT THAT IPHONE!

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