The kitties and the doggies are all doing quite well. One of my kitties died a few months ago, but she was 19, and it was expected. It still hurt, however, as it always does when you lose a member of your family.
The doggies now have a nice enclosed yard (pretty large) to run and play in (which makes it easier for me to work from an office), and the kitties have their own 600 sq ft area of the house. I'm in the midst of building new climbing platforms for them with heated condos. Not an expensive project ... I'm using IKEA Lack tables as my building blocks.
The only downside in my life is the lawsuit against the trucking company whose driver decided to cross the highway into oncoming traffic (including me). My wrist sometimes bothers me (a lot), and then it feels ok for a bit, then back to painful again.
Recently did the math (working with my known rate of speed and the distance I routinely travel behind the car in front of me), and found I had all of 4 seconds of reaction time between the time the car in front of me swerved around the truck (while the truck just kept moving forward across the highway), and when I hit the truck. If only the truck had stopped, I could have gotten around him. Oh well, he didn't and that's that.
