Our little white friend
Go peaceful on your journey
Your love will be missed

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I have also learned much more about PHP and javascript. I hope to be able to take more classes when I get the meds thing straightened out. It is probably best to take one class at a time, aside from short overlaps. Maybe by then they will have updated the curriculum. I am trying to decide between Ruby on Rails and Python as a next language to learn and also wondering if it might be better to just keep learning PHP instead of branching out. If anyone has any ideas about this, I would love to hear them.

Besides from meds and things related to them, everything is good. Work is still very busy and overwhelming at times, but it has been really nice to have a growing number of regular customers and lots of new projects. I am excited at the possibility of being able to work w/d and extremely relieved by the fact that K has taken on the roll of ‘beedragon billing manager’!

K got a promotion at work It makes me really happy that she is being officially recognized for all of the great work that she does. She is now the Crisis Team Coordinator. Congratulations K!

The cats are all finally getting along, at least for the most part. Nikkyo has won the at least the tolerance, if not the hearts, of both Marley and Kito. My niece Hannah gets cuter by the second. I can’t wait to see her in person again. I am really hoping that I will be able to go to Florida/Baltimore in April. Hard to tell at this point. The trip to Seattle went well. I will take that as a good sign. I am also really excited to get to see Cindy and Helene. I hope it all works out. It has been much too long.

I should really be getting back to work now, but I am hearing the call of Warcrack. I love that game! I switched servers so I can play with d. We can’t really play together too much because she is a way higher level than me (for now ), but it has been nice to have interaction in the game with a real person that i know and like as opposed to the random teenage boys that I occasionally group with for hard quests. I would also like to keep playing the character I have on Scratch’s server, but I think that might be more warcrack than i can handle. I am also liking the character I have on the new server better.

[Warning: Serious geekiness ahead. Get out while you can!]

My first character was a male night elf druid named Skiki, which was a typo for Shiki. I abandoned it at around level 8 to play on Scratch’s server as a female night elf hunter named Tsayad (hunter in Hebrew). She was an herbalist/alchemist and had a pet nightsaber named Bob. I was really into the pet part of it. I got to send Bob in for the attack, and shoot from afar with arrows. Other than that, I didn’t love the character. Wandering around picking flowers just wasn’t doing it for me. On d’s server, I am a male dwarf warrior named Greggo. Warrior’s are pretty fun. They are not very smart, but they can do lots of damage and use every weapon and armor type available in the game. Fighting style is more Rambo than ninja. I like that in a video game. Greggo is a miner and blacksmith. I much prefer banging on rocks to get ore than picking flowers. Blacksmiths can make weapons and armor, which is pretty cool, but i do kind of miss having endless amounts of healing potion like an herbalist/alchemist does. d mailed me some healing potions and bandages. thanks d

[/end geekiness]

Ok, back to the real world now where you can’t just brutally kill people that piss you off. I have a couple of projects to work on today. A photo gallery and an online sales catalog. On Friday I am meeting with a friend of mine to discuss another new project, and I am playing phone tag with someone about yet another new project. Thankfully, two of the larger new projects are temporarily on hold while the clients are getting organized. It is going to be a busy month!

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ashes
in a box
on the mantle
beneath your picture

waiting
to go back to the earth
under a stone
that marks the spot of your final resting place

no life, no body
but i am still not ready to let go
of the box that holds
what is left of you
in this world

A few days ago, our neighbors from across the street randomly brought over a tiny kitten. I fell instantly in love. It is very weird timing since I was planning on never having another cat again and because it is so soon since Shiki died, but it also felt like one of those ‘it was meant to be’ situations. She needed a home and I needed a friend.

I hung out with her the next day and couldn’t really bear to let her go. It was the first time I have been happy during the day since Shiki has been gone. We decided to keep her. I named her Nikkyo (NEE-kee-oh – means ‘second technique’ in Japanese) after my favorite karate move and because she is my second cat.

She sleeps on my lap while I work and licks my head like Shiki used to. It is nice to have a new friend.

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a sweet cat that was
my best friend
14 years of days together

she groomed me when i was sad.
she groomed me this morning.
before we put her down.

scratchy tongue licking my head while i cried because i wasn’t ready to let her go.
but it was her time.
20 years is a long time to be a cat.

gone without pain
it is humane
and that keeps me sane
while i feel all this pain

a tiny cat
filled so much space
a giant hole
is in her place

so happy to see her when i get home
but she is not here
and i am lost

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