Pain in my Ass Blogger

Ok, this is a royal pain.

I write a post. I go to do spell check. Freaking XP blocks the pop-up Blogger uses. I allow the pop-up and presto, my post disappears and there is nothing but a Zen like koan left. If there are no words, is there a spellcheck?

Bah. Damn you Google.

I've been thinking of moving to TypePad for a bit now in an expansion move. This sort of crapola along with the joyous server errors that occur regularly (and it's not like I post a ton, so if it's bugging me, it's got to be bugging a lot more people. Of course, Typepad is not without their own problems from what I hear. (comment - nice to see another company is as puzzled as we are by performance issues) But at least when you pay, you feel you have more of right to bitch and demand good service.

This here blogger dealio be free, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is cheaper than wholesale...

Ok, that said, I really don't feel like re-writing my entire post. So here it is in short form:

1. We miss Jules
2. We got a new cat.
3. We miss Jules still
4. New cat is not a replacement
5. A door closes a door opens
6. Faust is pissed.
7. The new cat is named Macbeth. He's 8 months old.
8. Adoption paperwork is going in later this week. Chinese?
9. I point out that I laughed at this earlier today.
10. Introducing Macbeth: