QualifiedKitten

Same, but lying on my left side, so the mattress?

I see some good suggestions from others, but where is her litter box? Are there any other pets in the household?

Huh. I don't really drink much soda these days, but when I did, Dr. Pepper was my favorite, and I've always enjoyed blue cheese. I'll have to try that. 2 of my recent-ish favorites:

• Water cracker + soft blue cheese + hot honey
• Ramen + blue cheese

Hey! I know some of those words!

I also most definitely heard about a similar experiment years ago using lipstick.

Hahaha. Humans are so silly! My preference is the exact opposite of yours, but the reasoning behind my preference is the same. I strongly prefer a cashier over self checkout because I prefer to bag my own stuff, and find it easier to do that while someone else scans.

Very few of the places I shop lately even have a bagger, so I don't usually have to ask anyone not to help. I find most self checkouts frustrating because there's no space for scanned items to sit before bagging them.

I also usually plop my card down on the card reader once the cashier starts scanning, so I don't have to bounce back and forth between bagging & paying.

Yeah, I really don't understand what changed or why. By the time I was in high school, pretty much everyone had a cell phone, but they'd get confiscated if they went off in class or we were caught using them during school hours, and that included all break periods. I remember a teacher threatening to take my phone away when I was using my phone to call my dad for a ride home after I had finished my exams for the day. For high school kids, I could see arguments on both sides for whether they should be allowed during breaks, but definitely not during class periods.

Things were a little more flexible in college, but they were still expected to be silent, and some professors would ask you to leave the class if your phone went off or was otherwise causing a distraction.

Did it do the trick?

Starting at that dosage does seem a bit much, but that's exactly what it took to tame my own cat's vet anxiety. He was still hissy, but finally just barely manageable.

My 4.8kg cat is very fractious for vet visits, so the vet originally suggested 100mg gabapentin 2 hours before his appointment. Since that wasn't enough to relax him adequately, for his next visit, they increased the dosage to 150mg, which still didn't do the trick. Next, they suggested adding a dose the night before, but it wasn't until we got to 200mg gabapentin the night before, plus another 200mg the morning of, that he finally mellowed out juuuust enough that they could examine him.

My friend's birthdate includes both "14" and "88". I also remember being much younger and the '88 kids were all about "double infinity", usually stacked, and some even got it tattooed.

1. It should be opt-in, not opt-out.
2. Once it's there, I don't trust that it's not still secretly collecting my data, or will be silently reenabled by updates or changes to the ToS.