Developing Usable Experiences

Two down, one to go

December 13th, 2007 9:09 pm —  165 views

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I finally sat down with W. tonight and wrote out a few holiday cards for friends and family. She did the majority of them over the last couple weeks, while I spent my evenings on campus at group meetings or attending class. Again, W. comes through.

After that I sat down and pounded out an answer to the second of three questions on a take-home final for my class on computer supported collaborate work. I’m putting a lot of thought into my answers so I hope they aren’t crap. Crafting answers often involves a little filibustering, but I’m really trying to concentrate what I’ve learned into 750 words or less, per question. We’ll see how it goes.

I went out to see how W. was doing and found her crashed out on the couch with two fuzzy cats pooled around her legs. This made me think of a friend and his wife that recently lost one of their beloved felines. I don’t know them that well outside of work but have a lot of respect for them both. I’ve been following his wife’s blog for a bit now1 and through this learned of the situation with their cat. Chatting with the Mr. at work has kept me filled in on the situation from a different angle. Blogging is such an interesting phenomenon, don’t you think?

So anyway, when I went out to check on W. and saw our two cats puddled around her, I had to take their picture for this post. They are warm and fuzzy and friendly and we sure like having them around. I can only imagine how my friend’s wife felt losing her cat. Losing is cat is different than losing a spouse or parent, I appreciate and recognize the differences, but losing anything you love hurts. I could spin off on attachment and how it relates but I don’t think I have it in me tonight and I don’t think it would be worth reading anyway. Mostly those rants are me trying to condition myself somehow.

Image: Ozzie and Bailey sleeping sound huddled against W.’s legs taken right before I started writing this post.

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  1. Because her writing is good and she has a sharp wit. Plus she introduced me to this footnote plugin. [↩]

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  1. Laiane on December 25th, 2007 10:01 pm

    Thanks for the kind words. I still miss Gregor, and I think about him a great deal. Even though we had him put to sleep over 2 weeks ago, I find it hard to write about the grief in any detail. Even ordering a wooden keepsake box for his collar and pictures knocked the stuffing out of me yesterday.

    Ozzie and Bailey look like sweet cat muffins. There is nothing more relaxing than curling up with a purring kitty.

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