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Look who’s here! It’s a Flying Devil! Go order your own from Bags that Bite (or their Etsy shop).

We are going to miss your magic…

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
4. For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

-pee

 I’m back from IETF 71 in Philadelphia. It was pretty good not an extreme amount of progress that didn’t amount to “take it to the list” in the groups I attend for work though. PEPPERMINT had a second BOF, and we discussed some DNS blasphemy in ENUM.

There was an our w/o IPv4 at the plenary and also an IPv6 only wireless setup going I did a bit of testing. The only thing that responded for me was erkkila.org ;p. I guess I need better bookmarks.

I need a nap!

-pee

I haven’t blogged in awhile. Just haven’t felt like it. :P

• I have ordered a bag that bites after seeing one on Jenna’s blog.
• Cupcake had a liver enzyme reading that was a little too high before she had her last lump removal/dental…but after taking her off her l-thyroxine (she’s hypothyroid) and cutting the ground beef out of her meals, it’s coming back down. *Sigh*. 3 small dogs over 10 and the big one going on 8. It will be expensive for awhile I think.
• Candy mania. I ordered Easter chocolate from See’s (can’t resist the various filled chocolate eggs) and more Japanese candy from J-List/Jbox. A little every day, that’s the key.
• We might go to Dublin (Ireland) later this year as that’s where the next IETF is being held. Whoot! (assuming Icky is not sick, in which case Paul will go but I won’t)
• Our future neighbor (lives in San Diego currently) called and rather sheepishly asked if his friend the mason had ever come by to build a chicken coop last year…nope, and we still have windows purchased for the project in our barn. But he himself is coming to town in April and is lining up work, and asked if we would like it built! So maybe we’ll be picking up a few more Ameraucanas after all! Maybe some Jersey Giants, too. /me crosses fingers for more green eggs in the fall.
• Squeak is out of the house and living with the silkies in the barn in a little swimming pool pen. Everyone’s happy not being picked on in the big coop. Hopefully in the new coop we can subdivide into pens for this sort of issue. Thank God. Squeak is cute and all but she’s terribly loud and smells horrible.
• Speaking of ’smells horrible’, the RIR hen caged in our kitchen better get her feathers back soon. OMG. She has gotten so friendly, though.

Oops, dinner.

We noticed back around Feb. 16th or so that Icky’s lymph nodes were slightly swollen; we got the biopsy results today, and Dr. Oros says it’s lymphoma, but fortunately it’s the indolent (slow developing) type. Now we just have to wait for immunohistochemistry results to figure out what kind so they will know what treatment to use. Our vet said if they have to have lymphoma, this is the least-bad type.