Black Doggerel

I am so tired of cats and mess.

Am attempting to tidy up a bit before I start with the hoovering. I would usually hoover in the afternoon, but it will help drown out the fireworks. That was my excuse this afternoon for putting it off till this evening, and it's a good one, isn't it? It's even perfectly true - but still an excuse.

Thankfully, the cats are proving a big help with Spike and fireworks. While they're awake and active they distract him tremendously, and while he's still pretty bothered he's not as bothered as I expected. I wish to hell I didn't have to take him out after dark, though.

Hamish (Blade) kitten is getting fat. He still has a waist when you look at him from above, but only just, and when he rolls over - well, his belly is magnificent, tan and silver with darker, gunmetal spots and luxuriant plushy fur like a mink's, but it's also kinda huge. Not sure what to do about it. I generally feed all four of them from one dish, and they like to pick at it through the day - and none of the others are overweight. He gets plenty of exercise - hours of zoomies and swingball and hockey and wrestling - so all I'm doing for now is supervising the day-old chick feeds to stop him stealing anyone else's, which he does if given half a chance. I may be no lightweight myself, but I've never had an obese pet yet and I don't plan to start now.

Naamah Cat is on my lap getting in the way of my typing by playfighting with my hand. She's biting and clawing me surprisingly gently with her front end, but she seems to forget to pull her punches when she brings the back end into play. Ow.

Firefox update is still getting up my nose. I reloaded my bookmarks OK, but the actual bookmarking procedure has a bug in it which means I can only intermittently bookmark pages, and then without titles. I have found a new theme, though. It's not nearly as nice as the lovely black one I used to use but at least it's mostly monochrome and has a bit of texture to it. Am checking the themes page daily and no one has yet come up with a white-on-black theme that's 2.0 compatible. Bastards.

Won't be om IM tonight, or at least not till after I've hoovered and done the litter trays, and maybe not even then. I'm still in my incommunicado mood and anyway, weekend.

Interesting that the Firefox pre-release trial-thingy downloaded itself automatically without being asked, but I had to go hunting for the official upgrade.

But I have my search engines back, and 2.0 imported the bookmarks all by itself. My only little whine is that new, fast automatic daffodils Firefox is incompatible with the lovely minimalist black theme I usually use, so my Internet is back to flat and grey with brightly-coloured icons. It's not pretty. But it works. So I won't be firing the 'Fox.

In other news, I was out shopping last night and ran into a Cats Protection lady outside Asda (in fact Spike introduced us, by almost pulling me over in an attempt to faceplant himself in her crotch). We had a talk and it seems I can be treated as the kittens' foster rather than a cat-eating surrender monkey - i.e, they can rehome Saffron for me but she can stay here until a permanent home is found. Not only that, she agreed with me that, while six months may be the ideal age for speutering, when you have mixed genders growing up together it's a little risky to wait that long. I do NOT need teenage pregnancies in my home. She said they'd speuter the lot for me. Gonna phone her as soon as I've walked the dogs. Yayyy!

Firefox, WTF? It updated itself automagically and uh? Google is not in the search bar, and when I click on "add search engines" it's not there either. What the everloving fuckmonkeys? 0_o

And it gets better. It's not letting me add any search engines. I've attempted to add several, restarted Firefox, rebooted the computer, changed my pretty Firefox theme back to the default theme and then restarted, and none of that made a difference. I have no search engines and I can't add any.

Anyone got any ideas/explanations/solutions?