This is not the house that pain built

So, G peed outside the litterbox twice today. Cue a call to the vet.I will divide it into "Expected bad news", "Good new" and "Only G". Expected bad new is that he has a severe urinal tract inflammation, for which he got some shots and different food for a couple of weeks. Good news is that nothing else seems amiss.Only G....well:
1) after the vet managed to get him into the carrier G still got in a good scratch in
2) still growling and twitching his tail after general anesthetics took
3) the vet going O_O at the fact he's 7.5 kg with that build and insisting he's overweight. Me and shiri looked at each other and nearly burst out laughing(that is muscle. As the vet should well know after wrestling him)
4) When we took him back up the vet told us "oh he will be awake in about 4 or 5 hours and probably groggy for another 4-5, close him in a room you can afford to leave unused for the night" less than two hours later we looked in on him and released him out, chipper, wide awake and friendly
ETA: 5)nearly forgot : the vet trying to draw blood and grumbling, because even when he found a vein the first time, he couldn't draw blood. G is apparently a difficult patient even when he is not awake to actively resist....

Recipe for the cold coffee from yesterday, so I don't forget:

materials
2L water
7 tablespoons coffee
~teaspoon ground cardamom
10 tablespoons demarara sugar

process
1. mix the coffee and the cardamom in a small bowl, measure the sugar into a different bowl
2. Put the water in a large pot and bring it to the beginning of a gentle boil on a large flame
3. shut down the flame and move the pot aside
4. add the coffee and cardamom and stir just enough so there are no clumps
5. light a flame that is wide enough for the pot on its next to lowest setting - if you'r using electric stove, like I did, make sure it's a different flame, since the heating element takes time to cool down.
6. let the pot sit until it has been gently steaming for about 5 minute(this will take 20-25 minutes, if this batch is a good indicator)
7. move the pot off the flame for 5 minuts
8. repeat 6 and 7 twice more
9. add the sugar and stir for 30-40 seconds, then repeat 6
10. move the pot off the flame and wait for 5 minutes while the grounds settle down
11a. strain through coffee filter paper. alternately, if you have a plunger with a dense mesh
11b. use the coffee plunger and then the filter paper.

NOTES:
1) the main idea while brewing is moving the water as little as possible, keep this in mind while moving the pot
2) you had better change filter papers after each use because the grounds will start blocking the paper rather quickly

low point:My body being hungry and my brain going "No you don't!" at any and all food present, and don't even mention preparing something or ordering out. Good thing I have energy bars I like at home as I can eat those even when my brain pulls shenanigans like these.

High point: I'm re-reading Freakangels, and just got to the panel where Connor and Jack bring the chickens to Karl. KK cracked me up, but good :)

Listening to Rachael Sage's "Sacrifice" and understanding how much it means to me, and that there are some family in my life I honestly need to have that attitude towards. And how the things she describes in it shaped my life and my relationships with my family.

Know that these are my own true words
Even if your approval is my sacrifice

I read this entry by needled_ink_1975(rant about movie!Eowyn being better then book!Eowyn) and after I thought a bit about why it felt so wrong, I have this to say:

( My perspective about why I prefer book!Eowyn, and think the entry does Faramir a great disservice )

*Tried* being the key part. I gave up around 2/3rds of the way in, much to ernads annoyance(she was hoping to have another series we can watch together). At least this time I can articulate the reasons:

1) You have families that have been fighting these creatures for what, 200 years? At least? And they still haven't learned that the best way to make sure the line survives is teach their children everything they can at an early age? Rather, they still think that the best way to survive is hide everything from the children and hope like hell they aren't the ones chosen? I really really hate that trope.

2) No built in support structure that I can see. Are these guys for real?That's worse then Buffy. At least Slayers had support infrastructure, including some built-in intelligence capability, and someone who was supposed to teach them, even if the actual set-up was abominable.

3)Who the fuck, when he has a cooperative knowledgeable local doesn't stop for a couple of minutes and pump the guy for as much immediately relevant intel as he can get? And then starts debating with that local what they should do?

tl;dr - the show premises sets the protagonist and his whole line as incompetent. I don't really like these kind of shows.

One of the best stage magician acts I saw in the last few years, lifted off www.boingboing.com. Fair warning - the guy is some combination of mime, stage magician and clown, and a shtutnik of the first water:

I can totally enjoy Mafia as one of the killers with a bunch of people I'm not emotionally involved with.

So some time ago I decided I really wanted to grow lime.Having found no seeds in store-bought fruits(turns out the ones in Israel are of the sterile triploid variants) I started looking around. This morning I finally googled nurseries, with an eye toward finding someone who has Key Lime, for preference. And what do I find? A nursery that sells Yuzu seedlings!I basically went WANT!!! and much hilarity was had when I went somewhat hyper with happiness and complained to ernads that I want a garden, or at least a good balcony so I will have space for lime, and yuzu and kafir lime and and ....:). But seriously, I very happy to find that yuzu seedlings are sold in Israel, even if I can't find key lime, this is seriously cool.

I'm posting this at the insistence of ernads, who thought it was important enough to share. So, several months ago my father's potted kumquat tree bore fruits. I immediately asked for 1.5 kg for liqueuring purposes, and then went ahead with my usual basic recipe- 0.75 1 alcohol: 0.25 1/3 water : 1 sugar:1 fruit(yes, I know I'm crazy) which took 2 jars. I pretty much forgot about them except that tomorrow is concentrated outing at work, so about a week ago I was going over "what can I bring" and had a lightbulb moment. I decanted it into bottles tonight and am bringing both one of the bottles and the fruit from it, which is by now essentially drunk candied kunquat, tomorrow(also, the chili liqueur and a bottle of pear liqueur).