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Friday, April 26, 2024

babies, pandas, grannies

"Go look at the cupboard door", he said, enticingly.

Boss directed us to look at the cupboard door in our breakroom that serves as a bulletin board of sorts. Intrigued, the three of us, Mango, Sarge, and I, went to the cupboard. Clearly, none of us had paid any attention to it earlier.

But there it was. An invitation to a baby shower. A baby shower for Kitty. Alas, Kitty is pregnant!

Okay, THIS sheds a little light on the reason Kitty is joining our campus earlier than expected/ necessary - and maybe why Boss was avoiding talking about it before now.

I won't bore with details, but suffice to say that GrandBoss is a good guy and is helping Kitty out since she's wanted to work primarily at our location for a long time. I've said it before, I don't always like working with GrandBoss, but I like working for him. 

I'm happy for Kitty. She's mid-thirties and has eluded to her biological clock ticking getting louder. 

In other clock ticking news, the semester is winding down. One more week of panic before finals. I've had a crew of nice tutees this semester, and I think they'll survive.


Speaking of teaching and learning, recall that I've been fantasizing about getting a tablet I can draw directly upon. I've picked one out, but haven't shelled out the cash for it. 

In the meantime, I've been playing with my little Wacom tablet that I've primarily used for online tutoring.

Figuring out the tools and quirks of using it for digital art play is fun/ frustrating.



And lastly, a Penny update. She seems to be progressing out of the slugfest she's been on since Wednesday. 


She's not yet 100%, and there's still no clue as to what turned her into a granny dog overnight. But she seems to be getting her appetite back and not being such an old lady.

7 comments:

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

Did Penny go see her vet? I hope she's okay.

If almost done with school, what are you going to do for the summer?😁

The Happy Whisk said...

Oh my gosh, so cool about the drawing tablet. If yours can take the EMR with the eraser. Company name is Staedtler the JUMBO pencil. OMG. So nice that thing. I have several good EMR pens. I love them all.

Abby said...

Peggy, thanks. We figured we'd "watch and wait" a couple days with Penny. Of course a couple days takes us to the weekend when our vet is closed. 🤔Thankfully, she's notably better today. Bring on summer!

Happy Whisk, so far, I'm just using the EMR pen that comes with the tablet, and it's fine for my skill level... low that it is. I've demoed some nicer ones, though. Good times!

The Happy Whisk said...

I get that. For years I used the one that came with my first tablet. Now though, I want that eraser on the pen. Game changer.

Herb said...

Glad to hear that Penny is doing better.

Abby said...

Herb, thanks. Me too 🐶

Liz Hinds said...

Hope by now Penny is completely better. It's worrying when they can't tell you what's the matter.