Well its been a couple weeks since I posted anything here in my LJ. So much has happened in this time-frame too. I will try and cover the highlights here. First off about two and half weeks ago Debbie and I adopted a four month old kitty (Misty) from the local shelter.

The funny thing was we first picked out a little one year-old female cat who appeared real affectionate when we came up to her. Once we filled out a waiver and had a shelter aid bring out this cat to hold she acted very differently. Debbie was the first to hold her and she felt so uncomfortable she passed this cat onto me to hold. Right away this cat started growling and acting real pissy. If only she knew the great home she was passing up on with this strange behavior.

Although we were both still in shock it was fortunate that Debbie had also picked out a little four month old kitty that she liked. This kitty was very affectionate when we handled her. So we opted to choose her for our newest member of the family. We decided on calling her Misty as it was a mystery how she become our new cat Vs the older cat who didn't respond well to us...

Misty has kept both Debbie and I real busy. She was sneezing right away when we got her home then started coughing, which lead to Misty's first visit to a vet. After getting her on some antibiotics for a pretty standard shelter kitty upper respiratory ailment then one of her eyes got infected ;'( So it was trip number two to the Vet for her. Thankfully now she is a healthier and even happier kitty. But I should add she now has way too much energy to play and get in and out of trouble!

Other than the kitty stories I have been very happy that several friends visited Las Vegas including evwhore and rcfox who both arrived on here on separate non-related trips. evwhore came into town for part of the Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic poker tournament series. I had dinner with Spencer and several of his college buddies and a female friend at the Mirage, which was a hoot. Whereas rcfox came to town for a bloggers poker tournament, which I never signed up for or attended.

I was fortunate though to spend a couple nights with Russ and other friends playing poker and having c couple nice meals. That is one thing that I do like about this town, people are more apt to visit me here in Las Vegas/Henderson than when I lived in Sacramento. Now if I wasn't on GAP so often (every four weeks) it would be even better! I should also mention that I had got to also finally meet Matt Lessinger (Card Player columnist and recent poker book author) when my good friends Nolan Dalla, fich, and Nick Christensen cam over to watch MNF at my house. So it has been a pretty fun filled several weeks of seeing old friends and making some new ones!

We also had to have some semi-major work done on our spa/pool area this past weekend. We had a very slow leak around a seam inside our spa where the fake rocks join up with the finished area. It took me weeks to find the right person who could fix this leak and paint the fake rocks after wards. We ended up having the entire pool acid washed too and draining and refilling the pool in the process. It cost us lots of money but the end result looks great so far. Sadly now the automatic pool filler valve is leaking. We had to turn it off during all the repair work and naturally when I turned it on it starting leaking water. Oh well welcome to home ownership - just glad we can afford the repairs!

Finally I also am sweating more rounds of layoffs at work and some potential big changes on my companies policies against telecommuters like myself....