cat divorce sleeping switch
2 Dec 2023 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneWax and I are cat divorced but we've now switched bedrooms. So I've got the dining room, which is the warmest room in the house now, and Snookums and Tristana can stay glued to the radiator all day and all night. It was getting increasingly difficult to pry them off of it when I had to take them upstairs to bed - after being shut out of the dining room Snookums would go downstairs repeatedly and I'd have to carry him back up. The last night we slept upstairs I had to go downstairs and carry him up three times.
Anubis isn't nearly as fussy. He has been happily sleeping under the duvet with Wax, who is more cold-tolerant than me anyway. And I am happy to not deal with the cold air outside of the bed now, and it's much easier to feed Snookums in the middle of the night... but the mattress in the real bed is nicer and the bed is just overall cozier, I guess. I suppose it evens out well. It wouldn't be fair if literally everything was nicer down here.
Anyway, Wax has the Chromebook upstairs now because she's started watching terrible tv shows on it in bed, which is what she does to destress whereas I binge read fanfiction. The Chromebook is from 2017 I think? Which means the second-newest laptop is from... I guess... 2014? When I was binge-reading this wasn't a problem, but now that I'm trying to get some knitting done the internet keeps failing out and then crashing and you have to reboot to fix it, and of course it doesn't have an optical drive to fall back on. (I may be reduced to watching video files from one of the external hds.) Wax dug out the second-newest full laptop, which is one year older and has an optical drive still, but apparently the newest OS on it doesn't have all the codecs installed and it can't play the DVD we tried to test in it.
I ordered a new laptop to install Linux on (we're probably going to switch to Linux Mint on it and also our desktops going forward, as Ubuntu and all its other downstreams are all currently fucked by a reliance on Snap packages), but it's not here yet because, obviously, packing and shipping is currently at its slowest due to the holiday rush.
Did I mention that it's too warm downstairs for flannel sheets? That's really sad and I am sort of hoping it gets a bit colder still so that I can switch to flannel down here too. That's one of my favorite parts of winter. But it is cool enough to sleep under the weighted duvet at least. On the minus side, the bed (futon) in the dining room is right against the radiator and, as I said, the cats are mostly glued to it. Snookums usually sleeps in my arms for most of the night, but here it's less than half the time. Tristana came and cuddled me twice during the night, but she's stretched out along the radiator the rest of the time.
Anubis isn't nearly as fussy. He has been happily sleeping under the duvet with Wax, who is more cold-tolerant than me anyway. And I am happy to not deal with the cold air outside of the bed now, and it's much easier to feed Snookums in the middle of the night... but the mattress in the real bed is nicer and the bed is just overall cozier, I guess. I suppose it evens out well. It wouldn't be fair if literally everything was nicer down here.
Anyway, Wax has the Chromebook upstairs now because she's started watching terrible tv shows on it in bed, which is what she does to destress whereas I binge read fanfiction. The Chromebook is from 2017 I think? Which means the second-newest laptop is from... I guess... 2014? When I was binge-reading this wasn't a problem, but now that I'm trying to get some knitting done the internet keeps failing out and then crashing and you have to reboot to fix it, and of course it doesn't have an optical drive to fall back on. (I may be reduced to watching video files from one of the external hds.) Wax dug out the second-newest full laptop, which is one year older and has an optical drive still, but apparently the newest OS on it doesn't have all the codecs installed and it can't play the DVD we tried to test in it.
I ordered a new laptop to install Linux on (we're probably going to switch to Linux Mint on it and also our desktops going forward, as Ubuntu and all its other downstreams are all currently fucked by a reliance on Snap packages), but it's not here yet because, obviously, packing and shipping is currently at its slowest due to the holiday rush.
Did I mention that it's too warm downstairs for flannel sheets? That's really sad and I am sort of hoping it gets a bit colder still so that I can switch to flannel down here too. That's one of my favorite parts of winter. But it is cool enough to sleep under the weighted duvet at least. On the minus side, the bed (futon) in the dining room is right against the radiator and, as I said, the cats are mostly glued to it. Snookums usually sleeps in my arms for most of the night, but here it's less than half the time. Tristana came and cuddled me twice during the night, but she's stretched out along the radiator the rest of the time.
