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From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Way OT: Cleo the Kitten Update!
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 21:14:52 -0600
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Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 12/9/2024 5:25 PM, Carol wrote:
>> Jill McQuown wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/8/2024 5:43 PM, Carol wrote:
>>>> Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/7/2024 5:48 PM, Carol wrote:
>>>>>> Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's been a week since I adopted her and Cleo has settled in
>>>>>>> beautifully!  She's still a tad skittish and needs her own
>>>>>>> space, which is fine with me.  But she's turning into a love
>>>>>>> bug.  She loves to get scritches and she sleeps on a pillow
>>>>>>> behind my head.  She now joins me on the couch when I am
>>>>>>> watching TV or reading a book.  She "kneads" me and purrs.
>>>>>>> So sweet!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> She loves playing with the fishing-wand toy and I use that to
>>>>>>> work out her excess kitten energy.  I have a carpeted cat
>>>>>>> tree with a barrel and if I dangle the little mouse from the
>>>>>>> wand in front of it she leaps through the barrel back and
>>>>>>> forth like a little circus cat.  :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> She gets the "zoomies" and runs from one end of the house to
>>>>>>> the other. She loves looking out the windows at the birds
>>>>>>> (and NO, Graham, she will never be allowed outside so she
>>>>>>> won't be killing them).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> She's eating well, loves her kitten food, wet & dry, and no
>>>>>>> problems using the litter box.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> She also doesn't seem to have a problem being left alone when
>>>>>>> I'm at work during the week.  I come home and find toys in
>>>>>>> the living room have been moved around.  But she sleeps a
>>>>>>> lot, as cats do.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd share a picture of her but I can't figure out how to get
>>>>>>> this damn Win11 computer photo import feature to let me save
>>>>>>> pics from the SD card to someplace where I can actually find
>>>>>>> them.  Technical learning curve.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All this just to say, Cleo is a happy and fun kitten!  I'm so
>>>>>>> glad I adopted her. :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PowderDVD seems to have a feature for that.  Me, I just plugged
>>>>>> my SD into the computer slot and copied it from that drive to my
>>>>>> pictures directory.  Looks like they didn't install the right
>>>>>> drivers?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, what is PowderDVD?  At any rate, I have figured out how to
>>>>> use the photo import feature and save the images from my camera's
>>>>> SD card where I want them (it's painful).  But now I cannot
>>>>> upload the images to postimages.org.  The site is blocked saying
>>>>> my connection is not secure.   Damn I hate new computers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>>
>>>> Apologies, powerDVD.  You may not want it but if having problems
>>>> watching a DVD (and seems to have picture stuff too), it's good.
>>>> Apparently not free forever but I'm just testing that.
>>>
>>> This laptop doesn't have a CD/DVD drive.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> I just got an external USB one because of that.  Works fine.  It was
>> 39$ but was a 'black Friday' type sale.  I just looked, seems still on
>> sale?
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5CFWHPL?
>>
>> Nicely sturdy unit.
>>
>> Not adding internal CD/whatever is getting more common.  Even desktops
>> are skipping them to cheap out.
> 
> You totally missed my point.  I'm transferring images from an SDHC card 
> in my digital camera via SDHC card slot on the computer.  Nothing to do 
> with CD's or DVD's or your external whatever.
> 
> Jill

Your computer, and your cat cleo haven't got a goddamn thing to do with 
cooking, your Highness!