Gondor's Grumblings

[Gondor]

I had a surprise this morning as I was leaving the flat to go to work. The cat came home! Sans collar though 

When I got home from work, I was surprised to find him on the bed, and not on the bench in front of the radiator in the hall. He was lying on top of my nightwear though, that familiar smell of his human. He was very good, and waited for me to change from my work clothes and into my home clothen befor he tried to climb onto me. I made things easy for him by lying on the bed so he could nap on me while I played a game on my phone. Both of us happy. 

 So tomorrow night I will trawl eBay to buy new collars, he is now on the last one I have, and I can support a small business that way rather than a local pet store.

Not much modelling done, playing catch-up with YouTube and other things to be able to spend much time on the plastic.

[Captain Canada]

The cat came back. Excellent.

[Gondor]

The cat came back. Excellent.

Fortunatly he is not like this cat

[Captain Canada]

Haha. Excellent. The Big Snit was the best of that series of cartoons. Been quaoting that thing my whole life........"Why are you always shaking your eyes ? " lol

[Gondor]

I received a text message from my optician's, the new glasses are ready for collection. As I am not working tomorrow, the car needs an oil change, I will be dropping it off at the garage and walking back into town, which should be roundabout the time the shopping centre where their shop is opens. I also need to see my phone/internet provider, who are quite close to the opticians. Opticians first though, means I can read any contract that I may end up with.

[Rick Lowe]

Always good to be able to read the fine print!
And having everything close by means you can tick it all off in the one day. 

And nice to have the Cat back, too.   

[Gondor]

Always good to be able to read the fine print!
And having everything close by means you can tick it all off in the one day. 

And nice to have the Cat back, too.   

Having the cat come home is like trying to knit fog. I don't see him for at least two weeks, he then turns up as I am heading off to work. During the day, he slept in a different place than the last time he was home, so I initially had no idea of where he was. After some time, mostly spent lying on me once I had changed out of my work clothes, he was off out. That was a couple of days ago. Last night the doorbell went at roughly ten at night. He was with a neighbour, who he gets to ring the bell for him so he could come in for a snack and snooze. Off out again after an hour or so. no sign of him since.

[NARSES2]

Last night the doorbell went at roughly ten at night. He was with a neighbour, who he gets to ring the bell for him so he could come in for a snack and snooze. Off out again after an hour or so. no sign of him since.

And people wonder why I'm a dog person    "Your" cat has obviously been learning from Larry the Downing St moggie 

[Gondor]

Last night the doorbell went at roughly ten at night. He was with a neighbour, who he gets to ring the bell for him so he could come in for a snack and snooze. Off out again after an hour or so. no sign of him since.

And people wonder why I'm a dog person    "Your" cat has obviously been learning from Larry the Downing St moggie 

I don't wear a uniform, and I don't appear to be flavour of the month as far as humans go with him.

[Gondor]

This morning, I was able to get a very nice extra hour and a half in bed asleep. I had the day off work as my car was booked into the garage for an oil change. A simple enough thing to do, but with cars being computers with wheels these days, I would not have been able to reset the system to say that the oil had been changed, even if I had a way to dispose of the old oil legally.
I walked into town after dropping the car off, getting to the shopping centre just before the shops opened, which meant that I was able to get my new glasses nice and early. Next stop was my phone provider to see about an upcoming expiration of my mobile contract. I managed to save almost two whole pounds per month on my bill and get free roaming charges within the EU as well! Currently though, I have an expired passport and no intention of going outside of the UK. But a saving is a saving.
The new glasses are taking a bit of getting used to. When I was getting my eyes checked last week, I was told that I now have a blind spot in my close-up vision in my left eye due to the repair or the tear in that eye, so I keep finding that I have to move my head slightly so I can properly be able to see or read at times.

[Rick Lowe]

I keep finding that I have to move my head slightly so I can properly be able to see or read at times.

I had that problem when I first got Graduated lenses.
Now with the new specs, there are 3 levels of graduation... another Learning Curve. 

[kerick]

I tried graduated lenses once. I tried looking at construction plans and the warped lines nearly made me toss my cookies. Then one side would slip a little bit lower than the other and really screw things up. I finally found safety glasses with bifocals built in. Much better.

[Rick Lowe]

It was a bit of a shock to the system...

My Optician: "I can do standard lenses for $X, or Graduated for only $X more."
Me, (Thinks): "But only Old People... oh, right..."

I can    now, of course... just.

[Gondor]

I had a visit to my doctor today. We talked about the various things that I wanted to talk about. He was great and printed off a copy of the letter that I didn't get of the results from my hernia scan. I also now have a form to get three X-rays, that is, one for each knee and for my right shoulder. Five years ago, I had an X-ray of my right knee, so this will give a comparison to that one, my doctor also pointed out that if there was concern about the state of my hips after the earlier scan, then the knees must be in a simmilar if not worse, state. Due to the times I work and the time the X-ray department is open, it will be Friday afternoon before I get them taken. It's a drop-in service and next door to my surgery, so I can make an appointment to talk about the results after the X-rays are taken.

[scautomoton]

The fact he was talking about ailments and health is promising. If he only talked about the weather you know you're in trouble!