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The SpastiKitty has Returned from Far-Pluto Orbit!
16 years ago
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My Dear Readers and Watchers:
Sometimes I feel like if there were two of me, I might actually catch up with everything that I need to get done. Of course, the reality is that there isn’t, and I’m stuck with only my own two paws.
Life has been very busy as of late, with both good and bad events marking all the various milestones.
A) I’m done with yet another Strike Group, which is both a burden and a blessing. With any work-up cycle, you get to know all the various players, and you invariably gain friends and build professional relationships along the way. But in the same time-frame, you also learn who the lazy bums and difficult-to-deal-with folks are, and do your best to avoid them. Of course, invariably, those are the ones you end up dealing with the most. The Goddess Fate can be such a Bitch! So, with any end-of-deployment, there a moments to reflect on the happy thoughts, and the disappointing ones. Soon, it will all start over again, for another 18-month cycle of “goods” and “bads”, with another half-a-year (or more) away from home, taken a slice at a time.
B) After two-and-a-half years, my beloved animals have been removed from their hostage situation by Court Order, and once again, I may see them, and be with them, whenever I should desire (less still working the dang contract in Norfolk VA!). There were some grand moments indeed to be reunited with my lost sons, and I was so very uplifted that both of them remembered me without any hitch. Drifter still purrs, nuzzles, and insists on giving me tongue-burn on both arms and wrists, and Macumba still likes to talk to me and snarl at tigers who are always too close for his liking. So in one sense, the first and most important mission of the legal battle has been completed successfully. But unfortunately, because of who I’m dealing with, the battle is not over.
Because of this person’s hatred for me, they have chosen to permanently butcher and maim an innocent animal, who will now carry those scars and handicaps for the rest of his life. In his stead, I will carry on the fight, and I will not surrender that battle until they have paid for their crimes against an endangered species, or until I am utterly bankrupt. So I give oath and so I swear before Almighty God! So, the legal battle continues; the Motion for Contempt was filed, and now it’s just the wait for it to come up before the judge. I have done everything humanly possible to deal with all this professionally and civilly, but now, as they have always been, things are in the paws of The Spirits, the whims of the Justice System, and whatever wrinkles the Goddess Fate throws into the mix.
C) The position that I have been patiently waiting for, for more than two years, that I was promised in earnest “You’re at the top of the list!”, has been given to someone else. It’s no one’s fault, really. No one bothered to look at all the details, and even though I’d been asking for a qualification upgrade for several years, it never happened, and so the position ultimately has higher qualification requirements than what I possessed. So... I’m hoping that something else with turn up soon. Paying rent /and/ a mortgage is eating up a lot of budget that could be better spent elsewhere. Oh well. Such is life, I guess, in the world of government contracts.
Of course, a simple life is a boring life, and it feels most of the time that life is anything but simple! The good news is that it looks like I’m home for a small while, which will be a welcomed change from the recent past of Haze Grey and Underway!
More good news is that I actually have some /recent/ photographs! I hope to have a couple of them all set up for posting here in a very ear future. I am just so very excited about being with my kitties again! It feels great!
So, hello and howdy again to everyone out there on FA, and I hope you and yours are all well. Forgive me for the infinitely long delays in commenting and saying thanks for faves and shouts. Looks like once again, I’ll just have to nuke it all and start from scratch. I always hate doing that, but it’s just so hard to catch up, when I’m more than... (gasp!) ...seven months behind, sometimes one can just never catch up.
I wish you all well, and I hope this new year - is it half over already?!? - is going very well for you all.
Most Sincerely,
Shasta-Hyper-Spasti-Cougar-Kitty
Sometimes I feel like if there were two of me, I might actually catch up with everything that I need to get done. Of course, the reality is that there isn’t, and I’m stuck with only my own two paws.
Life has been very busy as of late, with both good and bad events marking all the various milestones.
A) I’m done with yet another Strike Group, which is both a burden and a blessing. With any work-up cycle, you get to know all the various players, and you invariably gain friends and build professional relationships along the way. But in the same time-frame, you also learn who the lazy bums and difficult-to-deal-with folks are, and do your best to avoid them. Of course, invariably, those are the ones you end up dealing with the most. The Goddess Fate can be such a Bitch! So, with any end-of-deployment, there a moments to reflect on the happy thoughts, and the disappointing ones. Soon, it will all start over again, for another 18-month cycle of “goods” and “bads”, with another half-a-year (or more) away from home, taken a slice at a time.
B) After two-and-a-half years, my beloved animals have been removed from their hostage situation by Court Order, and once again, I may see them, and be with them, whenever I should desire (less still working the dang contract in Norfolk VA!). There were some grand moments indeed to be reunited with my lost sons, and I was so very uplifted that both of them remembered me without any hitch. Drifter still purrs, nuzzles, and insists on giving me tongue-burn on both arms and wrists, and Macumba still likes to talk to me and snarl at tigers who are always too close for his liking. So in one sense, the first and most important mission of the legal battle has been completed successfully. But unfortunately, because of who I’m dealing with, the battle is not over.
Because of this person’s hatred for me, they have chosen to permanently butcher and maim an innocent animal, who will now carry those scars and handicaps for the rest of his life. In his stead, I will carry on the fight, and I will not surrender that battle until they have paid for their crimes against an endangered species, or until I am utterly bankrupt. So I give oath and so I swear before Almighty God! So, the legal battle continues; the Motion for Contempt was filed, and now it’s just the wait for it to come up before the judge. I have done everything humanly possible to deal with all this professionally and civilly, but now, as they have always been, things are in the paws of The Spirits, the whims of the Justice System, and whatever wrinkles the Goddess Fate throws into the mix.
C) The position that I have been patiently waiting for, for more than two years, that I was promised in earnest “You’re at the top of the list!”, has been given to someone else. It’s no one’s fault, really. No one bothered to look at all the details, and even though I’d been asking for a qualification upgrade for several years, it never happened, and so the position ultimately has higher qualification requirements than what I possessed. So... I’m hoping that something else with turn up soon. Paying rent /and/ a mortgage is eating up a lot of budget that could be better spent elsewhere. Oh well. Such is life, I guess, in the world of government contracts.
Of course, a simple life is a boring life, and it feels most of the time that life is anything but simple! The good news is that it looks like I’m home for a small while, which will be a welcomed change from the recent past of Haze Grey and Underway!
More good news is that I actually have some /recent/ photographs! I hope to have a couple of them all set up for posting here in a very ear future. I am just so very excited about being with my kitties again! It feels great!
So, hello and howdy again to everyone out there on FA, and I hope you and yours are all well. Forgive me for the infinitely long delays in commenting and saying thanks for faves and shouts. Looks like once again, I’ll just have to nuke it all and start from scratch. I always hate doing that, but it’s just so hard to catch up, when I’m more than... (gasp!) ...seven months behind, sometimes one can just never catch up.
I wish you all well, and I hope this new year - is it half over already?!? - is going very well for you all.
Most Sincerely,
Shasta-Hyper-Spasti-Cougar-Kitty
I'm not even gonna comment on the position you were up for. That's just such a crappy thing of them to do!
I can barely wait to see your new uploads, and pix of the kitties that are from recently! I'm always waiting for your uploads as they are the best ones /on/ this site!^^,
Welcome Back Shasta^^,
It's great to hear from your again.
Thank you again for the warm sentiments, and I hope that you and your are well.
Sincerely,
Shasta
I hope Drifter and Macumba are doing better now that they are back with you. I hope justice is served upon the person whom seriously hurt Macumba. I have a feline companion, and at one point someone tried to convense me to have him declawed becuase this person thought he could hurt someone. I stood my ground and refused to have something so horrid done to my cat.
Both Drifter and Macumba are well, although what's been done to Macumba is permanent. He is healthy enough, but only the Spirits know how many years have been taken off his life for everything that's happened to him.
Justice, as always, is slow, and in truth, are entirely in the Spirits' Paws. I hope too that Karma and the Spirits will have their vengance, and maybe also, Justice shall have it's day. I will not give up the fight.
When Macumba chose me as his Chosen One, I was placed as his Guardian. It is my duty to him, and his species, to see justice through to the very end, or to go bankrupt trying. To that duty, I shall give my all.
I hope that you and yours are well, and remain always in the care of the Spirits.
Most Sincerely,
ShastaCat
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