So, I found out a few tidbits about the “Surprise Me” feature here at WP.com thanks to a post at United Tech Guys. Seems that checking that “this post is super-awesome” provides an encouraging animation of sorts when the post is published. I think AdAware is blocking this for me, though, as I’ve not seen it so far. But I’ll have to tweak my settings to determine if that’s the culprit. (I’m not posting from my computer presently and am not sure if this particular browser will display it either. [EDIT: It didn't.]) I’d already found the “humanize” tab in Stats that’s mentioned in the linked post, but as yet am still clueless as to what surprising thing should happen when posting comments or doing other things around the site. Anyway, all of that is neither here nor there.

Currently I’m dealing with a bunch of things. For one, Yara’s just ending her antibiotic treatment for her ear infection. And then last night she had a rather messy EPI relapse. At least I’m assuming it is EPI-related. I spent a good hour cleaning up after her, since she managed to drag her mess through most of my bedroom, the front hall and the bathroom. In the end she had an emergency bath — and I think I’ve mentioned that my tub is not well-equipped for dog baths — and I ended up throwing away her bed and throw blankets because they were just disgusting with sick. Literally it soaked right through both the throw and her bed, which has three separate linings plus filling, straight to the floor underneath.

So, rather than get myself a new external hard drive for my birthday, I’ll be buying a bed for Yara. Oh, well.

There are some other sort of depressing things going on that I don’t feel are really worth mentioning, but I will say the mood at work seems to be in sync with my personal gloom at the moment.