Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent
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@Nynrose Y I K E S.
First, I’m glad you’re safe. I hate having to ask this as well, but do you have a means of defending yourself? Pepper spray, for example. This is clearly a person who is demonstrating highly suspect behavior.
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Is there any software for the mac that will just bloody well tell me what is making that fucking alert sound?
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@Gashlycrumb said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
Is there any software for the mac that will just bloody well tell me what is making that fucking alert sound?
The way I deal with that is to go to Notifications from System Preferences, and turn them off one at a time until it stops, and then look at whatever the last thing I turned off before it stopped was.
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Stalker Update - I installed a camera Friday morning off the railing of my deck. At 10:45 that night, on a lark, I decided to look at the live feed. I saw lights coming across the property and knew that guy came back again because he started flashing his light at the house again. He the moved to hide behind the tree. Then came back to flash lights at the house again.
My closest neighbors have been on the warpath since I told them what happened. One of them runs a daycare and has grandchildren living in her house, so they can’t have that crap around here. I called them after a few minutes of watching this guy and they came charging out and chased him back to the RV sitting on the property of where I observed the “creeper neighbor” being creepy.
The daycare neighbor had been researching the owners to see if she could find anything and came up with a picture of a not so great guy on the FB page of one of the listed owners pages. It turns out it was /that/ guy. They called the cops on my behalf. He had an outstanding warrant against him for failure to show to court. They arrested him that night but he got released later that morning.
I stayed with my sister last night. Time get the trail cams up now, which will have a pristine, clear picture. I didn’t get to see his face, so I can’t positively identify him, but the neighbors saw him. I filed for a peace order yesterday, which is our local version of a restraining order. So, if he comes onto my property now, he’s going to be arrested and held. I’m also filing criminal charges for what happened on Wednesday.
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@Nynrose I’m glad you and your neighbors are taking care of each other and keeping one another safe. Take care of yourself. I’m so sorry you’re going through this.
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@Nynrose I’m so fucking sorry you’re having to deal with this.
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@Nynrose Very impressed with your rapid response, research and the community around you helping out. This is awesome and I believe in you. To hell with creeps!
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@Dreampipe said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
Our house got struck by lightning and it bricked the modem, a work computer, and the PlayStation.
“Did you have a surge protector?”
Yes all of it was, unfortunately it was against the power of Zeus.Dropped my PlayStation off at a local repair shop. The store was broken into and it was stolen.
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@Dreampipe said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
Dropped my PlayStation off at a local repair shop. The store was broken into and it was stolen.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to turn this narrative into a country-western song.
It will not beat the one about the guy I knew who had an eye shot out with a bb-gun as a kid, the way everyone says will happen but doesn’t, and then, 15 years or so later, had his glass eye fall out in the shower and roll down the drain in a cheap motel outside of Baton Rouge. But it’ll still be a pretty good one.
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So as most people with young dogs do, I have to deal with my pup going absolutely bonkers at random hours of the day and bolting out the back to yip and growl ferociously at a bird sitting at the fence or a particularly aggressive wave of a distant tree branch or some other random nonsense. This is normal, and is usually ignored, because it’s rare enough to not bother the neighbours (most of whom also have yip/growl dogs) and it’s usually something harmless.
Except two-to-three weeks ago it was because a kitten was in the backyard and could not get back out.
My dog, overly energetic pup that she is, would love this little thing to death. Emphasis on “to death”, so I definitely couldn’t ignore what was going on. Not that I would have, that’d be rude. Also dangerous. Somehow got the dog back inside and spent an hour cornering this tiny little adorable thing and getting it into our old cat carrier. I love cats and kittens are objectively the cutest things on the planet so I consider it time well spent.
Whilst nursing my brand new battle scars (I think I look rakish but my wife says I’m whinging over a tiny dot) I heard a yell from over the fence. It’s the neighbour’s cat. Alright, great, not the same cat I know they have but at least now I know where to take this adorable and terrified little bundle of fluff and claws.
So I hoof the cat through the house, ignore the extremely happy and noisy dog, let the kids take a look through the carrier window (not too close, there are rules), and take the cat back next door. This is the part where I become vexed.
The situation with this kitten is as follows:
- Her mother, next-door’s cat we already knew (and always comes over whenever my wife is out the front), is not a desexed male but an un-desexed female. This was a complete mystery to us and the neighbours until it suddenly ejected three kittens in their laundry.
- All four cats are allowed total unrestricted/unobserved free roam. Outside. Where there is bushland across the road. Where there are snakes. And spiders. And kangaroos. I cannot overstate the number of snakes over there.
- The kittens are seven months old.
- The kittens are not desexed.
- The mother cat is still not desexed.
- Existence of kittens = At least one roaming undesexed male.
This is how colonies start. This is how we wind up with feral cat problems and threats to native wildlife. The whole reason there is bushland where I live is because an endangered species of frog lives there. The irresponsibility of it drives me completely up the wall, and the apathy from the neighbours (who are otherwise great!) irks me even more.
Finally, perhaps most importantly, when my pup goes absolutely bonkers at random hours of the day and bolts out the back to yip and growl ferociously, I now have to check every single time to make sure it isn’t a free-roaming kitten.
EDIT: I got to listen to cat-in-heat yowling for a few hours last week, so more kittens on the way soon I suppose.
