Said goodbye to Loopy this morning. She wandered up one day about 10 years ago and decided after much hesitation, to make us her family. She patrolled the fence several times a day and was always ready to alert me when something was trying to cross over. But she developed lymphoma and it spread to her lungs. It wasn’t fair to make her gasp for air. She will be missed.
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Sad that she’s gone, but you gave her a life, and a loving home. Priceless things, these days.
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Always chokes me a little to hear of a fuzzy family friend passing as it reminds me of how much we treasure their company & how it stings when they go.
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I am sorry to hear of her passing 
. I’m sure she’s had a wonderful ‘family’ life with a decade of memories to fondly look back on 
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Thanks everyone!
Even on her last day, she lifted her head, put her nose to the wind and surveyed the property as best she could. She had not left her pen since Monday and was struggling to breathe.
I woke this morning with the dread of checking to see how she was doing only to remember she is at peace.
Now I will turn my attention to my 17 year old cat and my 2 little dogs.
The pack is dwindling.
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I was too upset to make a post about it at the time.
I reckon David would have gotten a great laugh from Kyle McLaughlin being introduced as “the star of dune” before mentioning his other accolades 
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Just found out a friend of mine passed away from heart failure this morning.
He was 37.
RIP Darragh, you were one in 18 quintillion, past present and future souls.
Not sure if my activity here will drop or increase over the coming days but if I do go AWOL for a spell it’s because I’m celebrating this mans life <3
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Good grief. How sad.
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Really, really sad.
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Wow.
I hadn’t heard about this.
Its a sad story on multiple levels which will stay with me for a bit I think. 
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Nooooo! Madmartigen! 
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I learned programming through HyperCard, but I don’t think anybody knows what that is anymore?
The idea was, you don’t need to be only a user, or only a hardcore developers. With HyperCard you could be in between: the programming language had readymade objects and components and the syntax was practically “Simple English.” It was simpler and certainly less fast than C or Assembly, but easy to learn for children. You could make databases or presentations or calculations (on a layperson’s level) and didn’t need MS Office.
I could do if-then-else conditions, loops, event handling, buttons, hypertext links, text fields, pixel drawing (sprites)… I could create little games as a teenager, and none of my classmates or teachers understood what I was even talking about. 
Of course my younger brother just ran with the mac like a duck takes to water. There was a pixel art photo of Atkinson on the startup screen we saw every day.
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Ending up working in Advice & Support feels like the only job fit for somebody with the name Bob Goodenough. That or they should be a career/guidance counsellor or motivational speaker.
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Ow. 
That news got me in the feels.
Ozzy was such a character.
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