My sweet Shitty Kitty (Midna), Teyla, and Teal'c.

My sweet Shitty Kitty (Midna), Teyla, and Teal'c. Only Teyla remains.

Teal'c was diagnosed as "failure to thrive" by the vet. I hand-fed him slurries and tried everything to get that baby to grow. He just couldn't.

Midna was the sweetest thing. She was friends with everyone who lived with us. She was our puppy-cat. She chose us one morning around 2 am and it didn't take long for us to choose her back and make her an official part of the family.

We have lost a lot over the years. I guess that is life when the family you choose has shorter life spans than you. But we've also loved a lot. Thankfully, the pain of losing them fades and we get to keep memories like this that make our hearts swell. 💗

Perhaps the most important photo from our trip the other day...

Perhaps the most important photo from our trip the other day... 😂😂😂

Is it too soon...

JSU friends:

JSU friends:  I know we've been told for ~the last 3 semesters that we'll be switching from Blackboard to Canvas, but it looks like it's actually happening this time. I didn't get an email or anything. I'm just one of those weirdos who logs into Blackboard mid-summer for no apparent reason. 😂😂😂

I literally have nightmares...

I started playing Wordscapes a few weeks ago.

I started playing Wordscapes a few weeks ago. Combinatorics followed me because this is how I think about it:

If I have 6 unique letters, there are 6! = 720 ways to arrange those 6 letters. If I have 6 letters with some repetition, such as in the word "banana" then there are 6!/3!*2!*1! = 120 ways to arrange those letters. That's because there is no difference between "a" and "a" and "a", so we clip them by dividing 3! out of 6!, etc. for all repeated letters.

I was also pretty stunned to see that the word "Echelon" was one of the words on the board. I've only ever heard that in the context of a math class (Row Echelon form from Linear Algebra), so it's weird to me they would expect someone to figure that out. Most of the words were pretty common.

Anyway, I'm a nerd. 😂🤓

I figured out what Nom and Teyla were meeting about yesterday.