geeky2. You know it's summer when the Maine Coons felt their bellies by sleeping in their water dish, and you have to take them back to the groomer to be shaved. Again. In other news, guess who gets to take forty pounds of cranky kitty to the groomer? Good guess.
3. I've been scarce recently because a) I've been trying to catch up on some things, and b) I have 600+ comments to answer and it scares me. I will endeavor to post more, if y'all will be understanding about it taking me a while to answer you. S'good? S'good.
4. Disneyland was awesome, except for the part where I twisted my ankle and spent Sunday in a wheelchair. It turns out that I'm still surprisingly good at navigating myself when I need to, and Vixy pushed me when we weren't in spaces that required fine cornering and control. Neither of us died, but wow, was that not an experience that I am in a hurry to repeat.
5. I will, however, say this: if you see a girl pushing a manual wheelchair down a hill, maybe stepping right in front of that wheelchair is not the world's best plan. Especially if that wheelchair contains a person larger than the girl doing the pushing. Because you know what neither of us was able to do in that situation? Stop. In other news, I ran over some idiot-ankles, and I am not sorry.
6. The Hugo Voter Packet has been updated, and now contains the files for Best Related Work. That means that, for the first time ever, a full length filk CD is included in the Hugo packet. So. Cool. It's not too late to register and get your voting rights into the bag! Check out https://chicon.org/membership.php for details.
7. The new season of So You Think You Can Dance has started, and that means that my urge to write InCryptid is returning to normal. This show is totally restorative, in the best, weirdest way possible. I am a happy bunny.
8. Other things that make me happy: the San Diego Comic-Con exclusives have been announced for this year, and they include a new Monster High doll (Scarah Screams) and a new My Little Pony (Derpy Hooves/Bubblecup). I am a sucker for toys.
9. Other things I am a sucker for: Australia. My Mira Grant Q&A on Saturday was the most marsupial-centric Q&A I've ever been a part of. It was sort of impressive, in a "why are we talking about this again?" sort of a way. It may have had something to do with the fact that I had a plush Perry the Platypus on the podium...
10. Jean Gray is still dead.
June 4 2012, 16:16:40 UTC 5 years ago
S'all good. :-)
If Maine Coon fur felts so nicely on the cat, it probably would spin up nicely into yarn - once off the cat, of course. It might need to be combined with another carrier fiber. I've spun some up lovely golden retriever/persian cat/merinio wool before (there's a lady a suburbs over who specializes in prepping and/or spinning yarn from pet hair, and she was giving out samples). Great. Yet one more mildly insane crafting urge to resist.
June 4 2012, 20:35:13 UTC 5 years ago
June 4 2012, 21:55:33 UTC 5 years ago
And it would take a LOT of kitty fur to make sufficient yarn for just about any use. If it takes 4-6oz of yarn to make an average scarf... imagine how long it would take to get that much fur off your cat - or even half that, assuming you'd blend it with another, more easily available fiber. The biggest wad-o-fur I've ever seen brushed off my friend's Maine Coon was still not enough to register on the kitchen scale.
June 5 2012, 02:54:20 UTC 5 years ago
Or maybe it just seems that way when I spend a half hour brushing him, fifteen minutes vacuuming the apartment and then not five minutes later find clumps of hair all over the rug.