Well, actually it is spanish sang in french.
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Or is catalan spanish spoken in french? Anyway, in Brazil we don´t just speak, we sing as we speak.
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Awesome.
I had a Serbian friend who tried to teach me a bit of the language. Actual conversation:
“No. Your voice bounces up too much. In Serbian, the tones are low and falling.”
“Ah, now I know how Portuguese people feel learning English.”
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[Even anger is sing-song #brazilian #brazilianamerican #brasileira]
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Ok, everyone. I guess I need to post an update.
I’m not going to go see dad this week. I’ve only managed to get less than half of what I need. I called him on his birthday Thursday, and he recommended that I wait until I have the firm job offer and then ask for some unpaid family leave to go see him at a more convenient time, like maybe after training but before I start driving a regular route. By then I should have a few paychecks under my belt and could make the most of the trip. He feels that even if he quits chemotherapy, he won’t drop dead tomorrow.
On the home front, my leg is doing better after taking the remainder of my Bactrin, and I’m walking around without any issues. The only thing is waiting for the edema to fade away, because the lower half of my leg is red as a lobster.
Gremlin’s recent leg injury is not healing as hoped, so I need to take her back to the vet tomorrow. The swelling has gone down, but there’s a lump of matted hair and skin on the inside of her ankle that I think is the cause of her discomfort, and it might be hiding a still open wound. Even so, she’s in good spirits and continues to ask for hugs and kisses.
With the catio built, I am realizing how much the cats were using the streets to do their business, because they are tearing through the kitty litter like stockbrokers on cocaine. The MTS job should be able to cover it in the future, though. So many things to take care of in the first month or so…
Edit: By the way, a big “whew” for my friends in Moldova with the recent wins, even with meddling from Russia. I hope they find their way into the European Union.
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I use pine pellet horse bedding for cat litter. It’s way cheaper.
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Romanian looks just like Italian on acid, tripping balls.
Bet it smells great, too.
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These names seemed more creative than most, until I wondered what was in the lower right corner…
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Is there a possibility of just pine sawdusty material, and do you know a good source? My cats don’t really like pellets, preferring finer ground material. Right now it’s a 50/50 mix of walnut and Arm & Hammer clumping, but if I could find some sawdusty kind of pine like they used to sell in the 00s, I’d love that.
It’s not even such a big issue for the cats as it is for the trash haulers, who don’t want to take earth materials because of the weight. Heavy stuff costs more at the transfer station.
Edit: Never mind. There’s a feed store right on the bus line I take to my mailbox. I’m will go check there tomorrow. Maybe I could just pulverize the pellets before I put it in the trays, and might still mix it 50/50 with the walnut shell material.
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That’s only when they Hulk.
The obvious moral is, you wouldn’t like an umber when it’s angry.
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I remember something like that, perhaps “Portuguese is Spanish with a French accent.” But then I heard Catalan… Um, French with a Spanish accent?
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We have 24 cats and on one has a problem with the pellets. They disintegrate into sawdust after they get peed on. You can sift out the poops and flush them and dispose of the wet sawdust as needed in the trash. I have some land so I just toss it all into a ravine back in the woods lol.
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That makes sense. It’s going to pull everything it can from the SSO. It looks like this is the setting:
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like there’s any way for me to not collect that at all from the SSO.
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Oh, I have tried the pellets, and there is NOT a total agreement about pellets between the 7 cats here. I wish I could find homes for the 4 strays that came into my life, but post-pandemic, there are too many abandoned cats most everywhere.
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To me Portuguese sounds like Spanish played backwards.
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That’s not the part that worries me. I mean, one of the reasons for using an SSO is to avoid filling most of the paperwork.
But I think in BB-BBS they had that option you screenshot checked, and… well it’s a pity I was never able to change my name to Abe The Magnificient Mandarine Sultan or something along the lines of.
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That is one big sheet of boring. 
We have 1/6 that number, and most days it feels like 2 too many.
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You’ll never get kicked out of St. Ives at that rate.
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Tell me about it. They are all rescues, either kittens from the dairy farm beside where we used to keep our horses, kittens saved from the side or middle of the road, cats that wandered up to our house, a cat the next door neighbor was going to shoot because he had a broken leg, a kitten that was crying from the engine compartment of a neighbor’s car as they drove home from church, a kitten that we fished out of a creek, etc. I mean, what are you gonna do? Let a little kitten die? There are a couple you can’t touch, but mostly they are very sweet. I buy the large dog size generic topical flea stuff on eBay and dose out 0.4 mL per cat.
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WOW! Yeah, no, not gonna let kittens die if it’s in my power to prevent tragedy. 
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