Never mind the mathematics blog; I barely do anymore. Instead I have more news about Sunshine. It's not the worst it could possibly be, but it is still grave.
Barring a miraculous change in her health, she is in her last week of life. We've tried all the medicines we can find to clear her lungs and handle her bloating and none is making an appreciable difference besides making her more suspicious of us.
She's still having good days, and days where she's as active and energetic and bouncy as we could hope for. At least in intervals. But she's also breathing loudly after all this, a noise that sounds like a percolator trying to force water through grounds. Sometimes she makes this really awful sound that we think is the rabbit equivalent of coughing, trying to clear lungs that don't have it in them anymore. Friday she spent almost the whole day still, loafed under the coffee table, not interested in eating, drinking, or doing much besides receiving pets on the head. That's not much to live for.
And then we get other days, like Thursday or like today, where she roams all over her free space and eats voraciously and even scampers a bit. A single day of that heartens us greatly, but we know there's not many more left. Her heart's just keeping on growing, squeezing out her ability to breathe, and if we just leave it as is she'll ultimately have a really awful death.
So after a long and serious and quiet discussion today we planned her fate. Unless her health dramatically changes, we intend to euthanize her Thursday. We think that'll keep us from taking away too many good days, and not force her to live through too many bad days, while giving us time to ready for her not being part of our days anymore.
This is the first time we've planned on a rabbit's euthanasia. Stephen we knew was coming close and we really kept him alive maybe two months longer than we should, but we took him to the vet that last time planning to bring him home. Columbo and Penelope were emergency euthanasias, Penelope's when we weren't even there. Sunshine ... well, I don't know what it's going to be like waking up Thursday knowing it's the last hours with her.
Let's get back to pictures; here's photos from the Open Pinball Championship again.
Here's what the streaming rig looks like, set up over Barracora. It's allegedly easy to ignore once you get into the serious gameplay. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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PH watching BK play Target Pool, one of very many pool-themed games out there.
We'd missed this! CST playing te video mode of Fish Tales, in which you use the plunger to shoot torpedoes at water skiers. A fun, silly, cartoon-mayhem mode.
Want to rickroll a pinball player? Show this picture. o/` Rock rock, rock and Rollergames! o/` (You can listen to the whole of it and will likely agree, it's rather good especially for the era, but it's also extremely earwormy since the game plays the vocal chorus every 18 seconds in attract mode.)
So you say Rollergames was made in the late 80s, huh? You wouldn't know it. You can maybe make out the advertising placement for Slice in the upper left corner of that central grid there, to the left of the Pepsi logo. The lower row are GamePro, Thermos, and ShareData. The lit parts above those are team names: Bad Attitude, Maniacs, Violators, Rockers, Hot Flash, and T-Birds. (Over the course of the game you 'compete' against as many teams as you can, which is usually one, maybe two.)
Wow, that's like the highest Whirlwind score I've ever seen! 11 quadrillion! (But in earnest: a single score above ten million on Whirlwind is astounding and to have both competitors hit that is unbelievable.)
Trivia: Most of the energy Jupiter radiates --- about two and a half times what it receives from the Sun --- seems to derive from gravitational contraction, the planet's steady shrinking. Source: Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar, Duncan Steel.
Currently Reading: Suddenly, Tomorrow Came: A History of the Johnson Space Center, Henry C Dethloff. NASA SP-4307.
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