It's preposterous to say that any time would be better for a rabbit's gastrointestinal health crisis, other than ``never''. But Athena's managed to hit nearly maximum inconvenience. The first was in getting acute enough that we brought her to the vet for Monday. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger was in school so I had to take time off work for the visit. I don't begrudge that and honestly it's a bit nice to be out of office on a weekday, but had this happened a day later bunnyhugger could have gone on her own and also asked better questions; I failed to get some things clear that would have been nice to know.
The other is that she's been getting injections, three times a day, at roughly eight-hour intervals. This implies some shot early workday mornings, Tuesday and Wednesday and one last one Thursday. Tuesday and Wednesday I work from the office and so had to get up, grab her, and give her a jab as quick as possible so I could still make my commute on time. Tomorrow I'll have to do it again --- more about that in a paragraph or two --- but, at least in principle, I can take as long as I want as long as I'm listening for a ping from Teams on my work laptop.
And how is she doing? Well, she's had enough of being fed Critical Care, thank you, and I guess her compliant taking of it the first time I fed her was just her not knowing what was coming enough to reject it. She also seems not to like meloxicam, the painkiller, which is a first for us in rabbits since they usually love that stuff slightly more than life itself. Possibly she sees it as a kind of Critical Care yet. (We might have been better off giving that to her an hour or more away from the forced-feeding, but we didn't have the time for that yesterday.)
She still isn't eating her pellets, which is the thing she really needs to eat to stop getting force-fed Critical Care. But she's getting more interested in eating her greens. And she's eating hay. And she is leaving droppings, ones that are about the right size and shape, indicating her gut is getting all motile again. If she hasn't eaten pellets by morning I'll be calling the vet to ask for follow-up advice, but at least we don't have reason to think she's in particular peril.
Now, the office thing. For reasons of version control stuff that are way too boring to explain, I had to leave my laptop in the office transferring files on the much faster internal state network, rather than chugging along over the VPN from home. It should be finished overnight --- it should be finished long before now --- but that means my laptop's in the office. So tomorrow morning I'll be making an extra trip to the office, although this'll be a commute, pop into the empty office (everyone works Tuesday and Wednesday unless they're making up the office day), and coming right home. At least it'll get me through twenty minutes of podcast or so. And it'll be on paid time because the boss advised me to do that.
Now back to the history of Kings Island as seen in their little park:
Another bulletin board showing off all the theming they got during Paramount's stewardship, including some more Hanna-Barbera Land stuff, James Bond 007: A License To Thrill, and Son of Beast. Plus, a 3D film thingy including everybody's favorite thing, Stan Lee Superheroes Not From The 60s.
2003 and they're still putting in Scooby-Doo stuff.
Here's one of the miniature Eiffel Towers which I finally realized were themed to various attractions of the park. Here, it's Adventure Express. Note in the background someone running headfirst into a tree.
Crocodile Dundee's Boomerang Bay was, of course, re-themed after Paramount sold the park because Cedar Fair didn't have the rights to crocodiles. Though the Antique Cars ride was removed in 2004, they brought in a new Antique Cars ride in 2019 and asked everyone to stop yelling at them about the Antique Cars, sheesh.
Another Eiffel Tower, this one themed to Mystic Timbers, the park's most recent wooden coaster and a great one, even when it isn't so brand-new.
2006: once again, changes in corporate ownership make the plaque! And someone's been dropping bowling balls on it.
Trivia: The western terminus of the Erie Canal was selected to be at Buffalo, New York, in 1816. In 1820 the commissioners of the canal reconsidered and ordered the terminus to be at Black Rock, New York. After another surveyor's visit the commission switched back to Buffalo, then in August 1821 back to Black Rock and, six months later, Buffalo again. In February 1825 the New York Legislate ordered that the canal would end in Buffalo. Source: Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, Peter L Bernstein. Digging started in July 1817, by the way, although at Rome, where the land was flat and soft enough to rack up a lot of miles of canal dug fast (the better to reassure capital that this thing would actually get built.)
Currently Reading: The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs, Stephen B Johnson.
