4/8/2024
While things are getting better a lot of things are still a trainwreck on my end.
While my cat has responded to the thyroid medication, she can’t take it as a pill which is the prime reason for all of her side effects (including being vomity as all hell)
So the mighty 15 year old furball is going to be getting a topical gel in her ears, and is on anti-nausea medication and a reduced dose of the pills until she can get on the gel.
That’s one thing that’s getting better…on the other hand, the day after I posted my message about things going on pause, an elderly family member banged themselves up in a fall and is still recovering.
So we are still in wait and see mode over here. When we know more, you’ll know more. 🙁
Adah’s last comment makes me think of George Stewart’s “Earth Abides”, a classic After-Plague novel. At one point the main character goes to the San Francisco zoo, releasing some animals and shooting the more dangerous ones.
That was actually inspired by a real incident. I was gaming at some friends house back in ’99 in Northern Indiana, and I was outside on the front porch talking to someone and saw a pack of coyotes go walking right down the center of the street late one night. They weren’t dogs, I guarantee it.
Two other literary inspirations for it:
1) A section of the Uncut version of The Stand where Tom Cullen and Nick Andros are sitting on bikes and they see a herd of bison that have kicked down their fences and are crossing the road and
Plenty of coyotes out here in the area west of Austin. I have seen one just stand in my road at 9am and look at me.
Yes, there are roadrunners too, but I have never seen them interact.
Every once in a while I can hear the coyotes on the north side of the river get all in a fury about something, possibly a whitetail. (Three walked across my “yard” at dusk today.)
😀 This just made my day – being right I mean. 🙂
That explains why she survived, it raises other questions of course, like:
How did she get exposed?
Was she exposed before she lost her memory or during the plague or somewhen in between?
It`s more likely she had already been changed before she lost her memory (or she would have noticed the eye change), this leads to:
Did she loose her memory because of the exposure?
Or did she belong to a community of exposed people who live in secret and cast her out for some reason?
So many questions. 🙂
That was actually inspired by a real incident. I was gaming at some friends house back in ’99 in Northern Indiana, and I was outside on the front porch talking to someone and saw a pack of coyotes go walking right down the center of the street late one night. They weren’t dogs, I guarantee it.
Two other literary inspirations for it:
1) A section of the Uncut version of The Stand where Tom Cullen and Nick Andros are sitting on bikes and they see a herd of bison that have kicked down their fences and are crossing the road and
2) and a book called The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
https://sfmistressworks.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/the-city-not-long-after-pat-murphy/
Yes, there are roadrunners too, but I have never seen them interact.
Every once in a while I can hear the coyotes on the north side of the river get all in a fury about something, possibly a whitetail. (Three walked across my “yard” at dusk today.)
Wether I´m right or not: Her eyes look intense in the middle panel!
You people have no idea how long I have been waiting for somebody to notice that….
That explains why she survived, it raises other questions of course, like:
How did she get exposed?
Was she exposed before she lost her memory or during the plague or somewhen in between?
It`s more likely she had already been changed before she lost her memory (or she would have noticed the eye change), this leads to:
Did she loose her memory because of the exposure?
Or did she belong to a community of exposed people who live in secret and cast her out for some reason?
So many questions. 🙂