While I Was Offline: 400,000th Visitor to Nick's Bytes

While I was forced offline by Ma Bell, the 400,000th visitor came to Nick's Bytes. As of today, my blog has had 401,053 visitors from 191 nations.

Thanks to all of my readers!

BTW, Alex made a new blog post today, the first in a very long time:

Alex's blog: Alexicon

Some Things Here, There, and (not quite) Everywhere

Thomas’s Alice

My dear blogging friend, Thomas, at Living Next Door to Alice, has just lost his long-time feline friend, Alice. Alex and I both join Thomas in mourning Alice’s passing to Kitty Heaven. If you have the chance, please drop by his blog and express you condolences

Tiffany

If you’re a long time reader of Nick’s Bytes, I’m sure you’ll remember Tiffany, my long time cyber-buddy and one time housekeeper who I introduced to blogging. She’s recently returned to blogging and has made some major changes in her blog (and her life). For exampled, she has uploaded photos of her new home in Florida. If you have the chance, please drop by her blog and say hello.

Alex

Alex is very teed off at me. Administering his twice-a-day medication is becoming more difficult each day. The furball recognized the medicine bottle and dropper that I have had to force into his clenched jaw twice a day ever since his last visit to the vet. Of course, his weakness is his favorite kitty food; thus far he has ignored the medicine bottle when he sees a packet of food in my hand. Until this morning, I have been able to snatch him up and administer his medicine before giving him his food. Today, however, he dodged me even though I had the food packet in my hand; I had to ambush him to capture and medicate the silly cat.

Awards

Recently Nick’s Bytes has received a new blog award from Daffy for which I offer my thanks:

I realize that I have been sadly negligent in passing blog awards on to others. So… I have the goal of passing a lot of them on in next Sunday’s post!

Muffin Saga

Speaking of plans, I intend to publish the next installment of The Muffin Saga next Saturday.

All Creatures Great and Small

If you were as delighted by the books of James Herriot about the practice of a young veterinarian on the English countryside, I believe you’ll also enjoy the real life adventures of Brooksie, a current day veterinarian practicing in Wellington, New Zealand. His saga about the Case of Maximillian (the cat) is a wonderful read. I strongly urge that you begin reading here, at the beginning of the tale.