Housepets!

It isn't already Spring where you are now? For North America, Spring started on the 20th of March which is coincidentally my mother's birthday.

Well, it is spring, but the pollen isn’t too bad yet later I know my eyes will be a watering constantly.

Joy: The day looks beautiful

Joy: Finally a beautiful day here!
Sorrow: For being spring here, it is still cold (Pennsylvania) >.<

Joy: My cat caught an annoying fly.

Congrads, Cdr!

Sorrow, mixed with terror: Learned that congestion from allergies can last WEEKS. This is gonna be fun. Since NOTHING at all is helping.

Story of my life. I had to deal with that a lot.

Slightly optimistic: It really does seem to be subsiding but I am still gonna be taking Benadryl and Zyrtec just in case its lulling me into a false sense of security.

Sorrow(?): it's April, the first month of the busiest quarter of the year for me, less time for games, chat, hang out, games, relaxing, posting in the RP threads, games, sports, and especially my favorite thing to do, gaming. Things will slow down dramatically in here for me and I don't think I'll even have time to talk much with my friends and people i care about, at least past experience seem to indicate so.

Sorrow: Place I wanted to apply at laid off its entire staff...
Joy: Began writing my first novel!

Wouldn't the place you wanna apply to laying off its staff be a good thing since you can now get a job from one of the workers who lost their job?

I honestly thought of that after I left the store and was half way down the road...think I may head back next week.

Amazee Dayzee wrote:Wouldn't the place you wanna apply to laying off its staff be a good thing since you can now get a job from one of the workers who lost their job?

I'd say it's more of a red flag. If they're laying off a lot of people they're probably in trouble and own't be open much longer.

Yeah that is true also.

Sorrows: or they're "cyclers", hiring people and keeping them until their wages reach a certain level and then the management replaces them.

Sorrow: Today the furry fandom lost one of our own. Dogbomb was a friend to many and an inspiration to many more, and his legacy will live on. Today, his fight with ALS ended peacefully and on his own terms. He'll be remembered as a wonderful guy, always enthusiastic and happy, and as a beacon of hope for many. He has willed his body to science so even in death he continues to inspire and aid people.

Rest easy, Dogbomb. You will be missed.


For anyone struggling to deal with this loss, there is hope and there is help available. Please feel free to PM any member of staff day or night and we'll do our best to point you towards professionals who are trained to aid in this sort of situation. Life goes on and Dogbomb wants you all to remember him fondly and keep on living instead of mourning his loss.

Not sorrow but shame: I don't even know who that was and if he was a big part of the forum.

Sorrow: Same here, Amazee. Clear someone I wished I'd known.

Joy: Took Sophie to the beach today. For a dog missing a front paw, she has such a riotous good time.

He wasn't a member of our forums, folks. He was well known and well loved in the furry fandom though. He was quite active on Twitter and also went to conventions and ran marathons.

NHWestoN wrote:Joy: Took Sophie to the beach today. For a dog missing a front paw, she has such a riotous good time.

Yay! It's nice to enjoy the small things in life.

The way that his death was announced on the Discord and the fact that the whole channel was pinged was what made me think I should have known him,as everybody seemed to have to know. I NEVER get pinged for anything!

He had ALS, one of the most horrible ways to go after cancer, possibly even above it. I’m kinda glad if nothing else, people are responding to it though, we can all only pray that our last moments on this earth have some kind of meaning to them

Which is why he ended up choosing physician assisted suicide via secobarbital overdose. The mere thought of ALS being something with NO cure and what I consider to be WORSE than cancer feels me with terror

Joy: Began work on my first novel!
Sorrow: Got Spring Cleaning to do this week...something I hate doing but it needs to be done (I'm dreading the dust here)

Sorrow: One of my mother's co-workers has a baby who is a few months old who is suffering from leukemia and the doctors don't think he will make it.

Joy: MY FURSUIT ARRIVED!!!!!!!!! HE'S HERE!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hooray!!!

Lot better than what I had just posted that's for sure.

Joy: The rest of my fursuit is on its way!

I am so sure that it is gonna turn out really adorable!

Joy: The radio station I work at is FINALLY back up and running!
Sorrow: HersheyPark has no info on one of their past attractions...darn

Yeah it really does stink when you can't find information on past attractions or anything in the past. Sometimes not even the Wayback Machine can help me.

Joy: Got a lot of college work done and submitted, then get home to find a new Housepets arc, new character and all, has started. Great day. [Just as well, it was a bit of a rough weekend.]

Sorrow: I'm beginning to feel that certain people on the forum like to talk down on me if I post an idea or I am a little slow on the uptake.

Amazee Dayzee wrote:Sorrow: I'm beginning to feel that certain people on the forum like to talk down on me if I post an idea or I am a little slow on the uptake.

Sorrow: I'm saddened you feel that way, Amazee. Your observations are valued.
Joy: got to go to North Caroline and celebrate a friend's retirement.

Thanks for that assurance. It was just me being paranoid and overly sensitive so I need to learn not always to jump to the worst conclusions and accuse people of insulting me when they aren't.

Anyway, did you fly down there or drive?

Joy: I took Southwest airlines - the attendants usually forget to collect for the Bailey's Irish Creams.

How long is it when you fly?

Joy: Figured out how to do some more rearranging in my room (Week...4 of my Spring Cleaning )
Sorrow: Just learned Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) died

Joy: Finished my math final so now I don't need to worry about it!
Sorrow: Went to visit my mother's friend in a nursing home who has terminal brain cancer and she is sleeping a lot which my mother tells me is a sign that the end is coming.