Cats eyes...

viewing the city skyline at a distance

I cannot remember the link for this pic, but when you enlarge it, its awesome!

I always am mesmerized by looking at my cats eyes! They are so beautiful really and Sissy's glow green at night like a neon sign, its crazy scary! So here I am googling information about cats eyes. 

Unlike human eyes, which work best in day light, the cat’s eyes must function well in extremely low light condition and as such are well suited to an animal that is predominantly nocturnal and crepuscular in activity.  Isn't that the truth, you'd think they'd sleep when you do, but they're all up night chasing anything that moves including car lights that might happen to peer in your window.  In darkness, cats eyes are able to function in approximately one-sixth of the light needed for human vision.  In low light levels the cats pupil must be able to open as wide as possible, but also be able to contract to very small size to protect the sensitive retina in bright sunlight. In human eyes, this size variation of the pupil is controlled by a circular ciliary muscle, but this limits the amount of size variation. In cats however, the same process is controlled by two, shutter-like ciliary muscles, which gives the cat it’s characteristic slit-like pupil in bright light conditions. All cats pupils are therefore elliptical, however some, notable the ‘Big Cats’, appear more circular when dilated.

The size of the cats eye is relatively larger than those found in human, this enables a larger pupil and therefore more light to enter the eye. Generally, the lens is more curved enabling sharper focusing even at the edges of the lens. The size of the anterior chamber and the curvature of the cornea is also greater, which helps more light to be refracted onto the light-sensitive retina.

Another feature, which enabled the amount of light hitting the retina to be increased, is the tapetum lucidum. This is positioned at the back of the cat's eye, behind the retina and acts like a mirror, reflecting light back onto the light sensor cells in the retina. This gives the cats eyes the characteristic night-time glow when they are caught in a beam of light. Yep, this causes that green scary glow, acting like a mirror.  I always wondered if it were harmful to shine a light directly at them but obviously it just hit the mirror and reflects back off right back atcha!

Do cats see in color?   I was told that cats saw only black and white, but recent research has shown evidence that suggests that cats may possess a degree of color vision after all.  It’s now believed that cats can see different shades of the colors blue and green, but that other colors are not all perceived as we see them.  Cats only have two types of cones (photoreceptor cells) in the retina of the eye that are responsible for color vision. There are three types of cones, and cats are missing the cones that correspond to the color red.  Humans have all three, allowing us to perceive more color and intensity of color. It’s believed that cats have a limited ability to distinguish the difference between reds and greens at all – which is actually a form of color blindness found in humans as well. So, no, cats do not see the world in strictly black and white form, but they do appear to suffer from a form of color-blindness.

Too Much Information...

Pt has hypertrophy of the anal papilla which was prolapsed and excised today in the office. Really? it appears I'm on butts today...this reminds me of when I was an x-ray tech and we had to be in the "barium enema" room all week for fluoro...

All this talk about assholes, is just way too much! and before breakfast, too!

Yes I have been having to listen to surgical reports, some of the details I wished I didn't have to hear, and the visualization...well...I'm glad my stint is over!

Its Friday, bring on the wine!

Fearless...

this is a 'sick' photo, found here while out browsing for something totally unrelated...

talk about fearless.

I wished I could be a little more fearless, but it seems I've become complacent to my surroundings, sucky job, and boring, mundane life. If I could go back and redo my life over, I definitely would steer myself into furthering my education first, the heck with that love stuff. I'm thinking about taking some classes, but I'm not sure I fit in the "spoiled" generation and I can't decide what I want to be when I grow up...LOL. I do feel lonely without a significant other in my life and looking for love would be equivalent to that cat jumping off the ledge into oblivion. Besides do people really fall in love in their 50s? be serious. Yes, I want to be fearless, perhaps I would give it all for love, but somehow I fear I will be living under the bridge as a troll, wishing for a cardboard box and a blanket! My life is stale. and shit...I've gone and depressed myself. Cheer me up, please!!!

Third time this year...

Isabella has been on the Honor Roll! I'm very proud of her...!  being in 5th grade isn't easy (so says Bella)...and then add onto that she is a Safety Patrol monitor.  Everything she does is scrutinized and she has to set an example, and I know she's learned a lot this year and been penalized for nearly every infraction, some of which did not have to do specifically with patrol.  Their Safety Patrol program is set up to deduct points but as I found out there is no positive point reward system.  

Fact is, in this particular school, there are a lot of disadvantaged and perhaps behaviorally challenged kids.  When a kid is nominated for safety patrol, its a learning experience for most the first time, and they have to learn responsibility, not only for themselves, but for others and following extra rules, and not all kids are as mature as others.  I believe there should be a balance, not just a negative, and when the kid gets to zero points after starting with 20, they kick them off patrol.  What does this do to a child's self-esteem when they are kicked off safety patrol team after being hand-selected to serve on Safety Patrol? 

Considering most infractions are 3 to 4 points apiece, one can see how quickly these 20 points can be taken down to zero.  The deduction of points begins to create negativity and weighs on them to the point they just don't care or want to quit the safety patrol altogether.  Isabella got to that point, and that's when I called the Safety Patrol board and I told them it is not a choice for her to get kicked off or quit; she started this program and she was handpicked to be on it, so I expect her to finish it out.  At this point I inquired about patrols being able to earn points back for good behavior; for example, not being late, always wearing their safety patrol belts, going beyond their duty, or making the honor roll, etc...and I plan to voice this to the school board as I don't think this is unreasonable.

If you've got a 10 and 11 year old you know that they are not the most responsible, and at this age to be kicked off after getting to zero would be a terrible blow not to mention having to forefeit a trip at the end of the year.  Isabella is down to 3 points but has served on patrol for nearly 8 months, some infractions did not have anything to do with patrol duties per se.   She has worked fundraisers, and its my job to make sure she gets to go on that trip, and they'll be lucky if she wants to sign up for another year.  I hope she does because I see she has matured more than I thought she would, so its been a gr8 learning experience for her.

Its too bad her parents aren't noticing the strides she made, not only at school but on a personal level.

Lets play...the body game...

 Ready?   No peeking or doing online searches!




where is your natal cleft, bloggers? 

go ahead, guess...

a giggle from Isabella

Last night we were laying in my bed watching American Idol, and I noticed Isabella eating those gummy fruits things out of a packet of Welch's fruit snacks, and if that wasn't enough she had her bag of honey barbecue chips also at her grasp.  Weird combo. 

I noticed she finished that little bag of fruit snacks and she is trying to open another which she cannot get open, and I ask her...Isabella, how many packets of fruit snacks do you need to be eating before bed? one was enough I said, but she rebounds out with "well...that one was just a sample..."

Now, we both had to laugh at that one...cause if you think about it...those packets really are 'sample' sized!  and its also like chips...who can eat just one?! 

the Misadventures continue...

 

Dear Blogdom ~

It's been a while since Your Majesty has posted on the misadventures of Griselda Mess and Lord Spoiled.  Have things changed in the Kingdom?

Well, one would certainly like to think so, but unfortunately some things never change! Griselda Mess is still going to the methadone clinic (has it been two years? way too long), and this place is a money pit, designed to rob the addict's family cause as you know addicts or ex-addicts don't want to work...and why should they when they can manipulate those bleeding heart family members into paying their bills?! How long does one have to go to a methadone clinic, I guess this is an individual indiscretion, however what is wrong with getting the heck off that crap in order to take your life back and actually live it. Wouldn't you think having your children taken out of the home would be reason enough?

Since Lord Spoiled returned back to Griselda Mess after a 9-month 3 hots and a cot hiatus, a year ago this month, he has only kept a seasonal job, 2 months max, with Mother-In-Law picking up the rental tab for both of them on the house they live in, even supposedly when they were working; the house of which is in disarray.  Little Queenie went to visit, laid her I-Pod down and its been missing for nearly 3 weeks! They have no vehicle now, they tore up the in-laws truck and now they are 'borrowing' her car but with lies to substantiate them using it. The State is feeding them.  Yes, nothing ever changes with those two...except that..

Griselda petitioned the court back for their 6 year old and got him back by passing a couple of random drug screens, lying about having a job, and with Mother In Law telling the Social Services people that everything seemed to be going well, however they are on watchful SS probation for another few months to keep Lord Wyatt Earp! God knows how this latest escapade will affect custody.  MIL (Mother-in-law) is making them look good to the courts by paying everything for them so it looks on the surface as if they function, when in reality they still have a drug-mentality, and its been rumored more than once that they're back on the wagon, even letting a ex-addict move in among other suspicious behaviors.  They know how to fake/cover drug screens, what they can take that will work out of their system, etc..they are very skilled at playing the drug and ploy for money manipulation games.

Why does Yours Truly care? I care because I have their other child, Little Queenie, in my custody, and I don't want the courts to be fooled that these two people are model citizens, are working and providing a roof and food for their children when in reality they are not.  But I guess MIL feels she would rather pay to have them be independent than have them move in, right? as it seems they got evicted, and the landlord is pursuing legal action. Your Majesty is not surprised! This has been a repeat offense by them.  It appears that while MIL gave them money for rent, she did not really know if they actually PAID the rent, oh my word, common sense would tell you not to trust either of those two with cash! ... especially after Bonnie & Clyde nearly bankrupted MIL and hubby the last year or two (says the In-Laws). In-Laws still complain of all the money they have been connived out of by Griselda Mess and Lord Spoiled, yet seem to not realize that they NEED to set boundaries!

and Blogdom, what possesses someone who is plastered to get out of a car with intentions of buying pop out of a pop machine, and stagger quite literally into a cop, who promptly takes him to jail?  As luck would have it...Lord Spoiled, who was to appear in court today.   It appears he had a controlled substance in his pocket in a pharmacy container that was unmarked, go figure! What was it? a pain pill.  Lord Spoiled is a recreational user and abuses alcohol and anything he can get his hands on! MIL (Mother In Law) states he has a prescription, that he goes to an 'out of town' physician, isn't that convenient? no self-respecting doctor would prescribe to someone of his caliber...and she believes her little boy was jailed unnecessarily! I sit back and watch the drama unfold...the misadventures of Dumb (Lord Spoiled), Dumber (Mother-In-Law) & Drill Sargent and Queen of Lies (Griselda Mess)! I swear you people have never heard such stories...to include her 'real father' dying?! seriously...

Stay tuned ...!

Where is your loving compassion, Your Majesty,
for those cortically subilluminated family members?

Fairy Dear, instead of sticking in your 2 cents, trade that scepter in for a shovel & get back to digging that moat deeper around the castle! and quickly order up a few more alligators!

its just a matter of time...

before all of my crew lose their jobs to include myself!  it seems that they can pay 3 people offshore (most with no experience taken off the streets) way less than the cost of one US employee staffed as FQA (final quality assurance)...   

for a cheaper price, but at what sacrifice?  The sacrifice in the long run will be a quality product delivered to the clients.  Then what?  move accounts back to the US when we have no staff left? They already moved accounts offshore at the loss of MT jobs and a quality product if one cared to do audits to find out,  and now they are moving any US QA accounts to cut costs...damn.

It really hits hard in these times of high unemployment. Is there really no loyalty in commitment to a company?  What kind of company lets employees go right before Christmas holiday? ... before that another employee had been there 20 years and was whacked.  All they do is call them up, tell them their services are no longer needed. 

Two more staff employees are being axed Monday.  The one girl has been with us forever.  She will be devastated, and I'm not sure she won't pick up the phone and call me but I'm sure will be encouraged by HR not to contact any employee.

I had to move what employees I have around to cover midnight and Sunday through Thursday shifts.  We are running out of employees...its scary. 

Bottom line:  The rich get richer and the rest of us suffer, that's what it boils down to, and I hate this.  :(

cute little critters

I don't have feeders out for birds or squirrels, sometimes I miss doing that...but once you start you have to keep it up as they will become dependent on you, just like another kid to feed! Generally Bella and I go over to Central Park, one block away, which is a nice woodland home to lots of squirrels to become one with nature's little creatures, taking peanuts, and most of the squirrels will just about walk up and take it out of your hands. They seem to be timid, but I don't trust any little clawed wild animals, so I try not to get too close!

You Know You're A Redneck...

or a hoarder, if you house looks like this from the road.  good golly Miss Molly~! One can only imagine what the inside looks like. 

The Power of Subconscious Mind...

I have always been fascinated since the plunge of hypnosis myself just how powerful the subconscious is over the conscious mind.  Think about how many times you've been doing something, say driving for instance, and you get in your car, drive to your destination, but you really don't remember a thing about the drive per se other than you functioned to carry it out.  That is how most operate in their waking states, its just a do it type of thing, like rote memorization, but the subconscious mind is a little harder to tap into.  Suggestions made into one's subsciousness can be acted upon in a waking state with no recollection that you actually might have done such a thing!  For me, hypnosis changed my life from a smoker to non-smoker, nearly 10 years free of that habit, and I have to say I was a heavy smoker at the time. Your mind has the power to heal your body even if you're sick, I believe this wholeheartedly.  Here is something I am currently reading.


I was watching this guy, who is a mentalist, and he wanted to find out if people could be hypnotized or programmed to be a hired government spy 'assassin.' Here's a link to a real history website and you can view these videos, programmed to kill .   So as I was watching this show, this guy interviews for a recipient who could be hypnotized as some people cannot be, and he relaxed him into a deep sleep and put suggestions in, complete with triggers, and very clear on each step this guy needed to do.   His trigger would begin with the sound of a tapping bell like in a diner if an order is up, and his mission would then start, which was to drug someone's coffee (a person he had been programmed to believe was a hitman), and then to remove items from his silver briefcase to prevent a hit on the pictures of the person in that briefcase.   Of course everyone in the coffee shop were actors and actresses who let this guy follow through with his hypnotic suggestions.  In the real world, if someone had a pill and went to empty it in someone else's drink somebody would noticed and this would not have been accomplished.  However this guy did what he was programmed to do, walked out of the coffee shop, right back to where the guy was who hypnotized him and back onto the bed, and after waking thought he had a very strange dream, but in reality his dream was not a dream at all, but rather an act perpetrated by someone under the influence of hypnosis.  It was pretty eye awakening, and so I guess its true that people could become programmed assassins and have no recollection of every have done such a thing.  This guy was pretty freaked that he would do something like that, and so the hypnotist took out any memory of this incident from his subconscious mind, just erased it, and that in itself is powerful too!

This guy also put an ad in to give movie-goers a free peek at a movie coming out, but once the people entered the theater, he did a group hypnotic gesture and nearly ever participant fell asleep, except the few who witnessed the power of hypnotic suggestion.  As the hypnotist told each sleeper that upon awakening you will laugh, feel refreshed, think this was the funniest movie you've ever seen, and believe they sat through that movie.  It was surreal to see the expressions on their faces as they realized that they did not see a movie and the people who did not fall under the power of suggestion were there to witness.  I am going to continue to explore this, just because it fascinates me to no end! wow! maybe I can put Bella under hypnosis to take out all suggestions of defiance, get her to do chores without being told, and using good manners always!

Oops!

of course I'm not snooty or anything like that, but some people do have nerve! I'll have to say!

Miss Crabby Patties...

Isabella woke up grouchy as an old bear! Said her head hurt, her neck hurt, she couldn't get up, and she was not going to school, and if she did she was going to be the meanest ever and "you'll get a call mamaw from the school telling you to come pick me up!"  I checked her head to see if she was running a fever, because last week she had the flu, so I thought maybe she could be relapsing, but instead of engaging in the negativity of the morning, I just went about my cheery self, defrosting the inside of the car windshield...what? yes! I know that's strange and scary...in any event, she got dressed and went onto school without incident.

the big D word...Discipline. 

Reach to mash their smart mouths and you'll end up with threats from Your Brattiness of "You can't do that...I'll tell my teachers...or I'll call Social Services or 9-1-1..." and who wants jail time? right?

its just not legal to hit children despite the frustrations of grandparenthood...

Instead of that, perhaps contemplate taking them for a drive instead.

I'm not sure what it is exactly....

It could be the vibrations from the road,

or the scenery,

or something like that.

Either way:  it works!

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Things a mean girl would say

  Size matters; oh yes it does! to a naked man... 


1.   I've smoked fatter joints than that.
2.   Ahhhh, it's cute.  
3.   Why don't we just cuddle?
4.   You know they have surgery to fix that.
5.   Make it dance.
6.   Can I paint a smiley face on it?  
7.   Wow, and your feet are so big.   
8.   It's okay, we'll work around it.  
9.   Will it squeak if I squeeze it?
10.  Oh no... I just got a flash headache.  
11.  (Giggling and pointing)  
12.  Can I be honest with you?  
13.  How sweet, you brought incense.  
14.  This explains your car.  
15.  Maybe if we water it, it'll grow.
16.  Why is God punishing me?
17.  At least this won't take long.
18.  I never saw one like that before.  
19.  But it still works, right?  
20.  It looks so unused.
21.  Maybe it looks better in natural light.
22.  Why don't we skip right to the cigarettes?  
23.  Are you cold?  
24.  If you get me real drunk first.
25.  Is that an optical illusion?
26.  What is that?  
27.  It's a good thing you have so many other talents.  
28.  Does it come with an air pump?  
29.  So this is why you're supposed to judge people on personality.  
30.  I guess this makes me the early bird.

hahaha!  some of those were pretty funny, but of course, I would never ever say anything like this...to each their own.  Its not the size, its what they do with it, right? no? well...!