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Minnie is back to her old self. A somewhat stiffer version of her old self, but we are delighted to have her back.
Her appetite has returned and she is eating regularly now. Rather than feeding her once a day, as we did most of her life, today I have given her three or four small meals, and it’s only 11 am. She’s got the spring back in her step again. She doesn’t even need the anti-nausea med or appetite stimulant. However, I have discovered I am a wiz at pilling the dog and giving her liquid medication, and these are skills I expect I will need again.
I’d like to get her on a healthier diet. She’s eating all meat and a little yogurt now, which is the doggie equivalent of subsisting on Doritos and Mountain Dew. I’ll tackle that problem after she’s had a little time getting back in the habit of eating.
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Nominating the guy with the Nazi tattoo, a downwardly mobile career, a record of shitposting on Reddit and public denunciations by women was not a great idea for the “vote for us because the other guys are incompetent Nazi misogynist failures who post too much crap on social media” party.
When I make life decisions, I want certainty. I want to know I’m making the one and only right choice.
I’m learning that life often doesn’t give us that, especially for the bigger decisions. You know you don’t have enough information to make a good choice — let alone the right one — and you have to decide anyway.
This blows.
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🦍 Mitchellaneous 7.5.2026
Minnie ate three meals in a row as of today, which is a triumph, and that will tell you how things are going in the canine department
The vet diagnosed her with kidney failure after a routine blood test, a little more than two weeks ago. Transitioning her to a prescription food has proven to be challenging.
When we brought her home as a puppy, it took me a few weeks to learn her rhythms, but ever since then she has been self-regulating on diet. A machine. I put down a bowl of kibble once a day, she ate as much as she wanted, I picked it up and sealed a lid on it and put it away for the next day. She didn’t gain weight, she didn’t lose weight. She walked more than three miles a day, occasionally did zoomies and was altogether relatively low maintenance and a little tank.
The vet prescribed canned kidney diet food for her, and I fumbled the transition. You’re supposed to transition a dog gradually to a new diet, but – and I am confused exactly how I decided on this – she gobbled up the food and loved it for the first two or three meals we gave her and so I just started giving her 100% that diet. And then she started turning her nose up at it and ate less and less until she stopped eating entirely for a day and a half, and I rushed her to the vet Friday afternoon and the vet said just make sure she eats. The vet said she herself has an elderly dog with heart problems who is difficult to feed and she will feed that dog any damn thing including takeout burritos. You need to get the dog eating.
So I switched her to chicken breast and rice and then I gave her too much last night and she turned her nose up at her usual treats and was wobbly and unhappy this morning. So I gave her only a moderate amount of chicken and rice this morning and she ate that and then I gave her a little bit more this afternoon and she ate that and she seems peppier and more cheerful so we will count that as a win.
We are also dealing with two elderly cats, one of which is obese, and the other one is a fussy eater.
We should’ve gotten goldfish. When they get sick, you don’t even know it because who the hell can tell when a goldfish is sick. And then they die, and you flush them down the toilet and you don’t care. Whereas these animals are breaking our hearts.
Unpopular opinion: “1776” is a timeless classic that Americans will watch in a hundred years. “Hamilton” is very much of its time; viewership will decline and in a generation it will be nearly forgotten.
That is not necessarily a criticism of “Hamilton.” It is OK for things to be of their time.
Nor do I intend to cast aspersions on Lin-Manuel Miranda. He is extremely talented, with an original voice, still young and hopefully we’ll have many years for him to produce a masterpiece – assuming he doesn’t get killed in a duel.
Another unpopular opinion: the theatrical cut of “1776” was better than the director’s cut. William Daniels running down the stairs as the overture plays is visually more interesting than the mural. And maybe Jack Warner did cut “Cool Cool Considerate Men” to placate Nixon (or so the internet says) — it was also the right creative call. It’s not a strong scene and “Molasses to Rum to Slaves” has more bite.
Overheard: “Today we celebrate the PDFing of “Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx””