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They sure know how to keep you busy, I'm feeling like the doorman as they expect me to open the backdoor all the time. They have cat flaps, but they prefer the "door service" 
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Oh, I know that one!
My office is beside the front door, and Dij goes out the catflap, but won't come back in that way (unless a chicken carcass is being stripped). So if it's raining, he goes out, hurtles round the building and bangs on my window until I open the door and let him in. And dry him or he rolls his wet fur all over the desk, keyboard, books, paperwork, ... When he's dried to his satisfaction (and if I try to stop early my ankles get swiped at) he goes back out the catflap and the cycle repeats.
Mind you it does make his fur really smooth and soft!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Sorry to hear that, hope everything turns well!
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It is very sad to lost a pet-friend...
After my dog died (at 17) a few years ago I decided that my next pet will be a Galapagos turtle, young enough to outlive me...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: my next pet will be a Galapagos turtle, young enough to outlive me...
Not as cuddly though 
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A baby elephant would probably outlive you, too. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I've heard they have problem with VET environment 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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All the best for your cat. Hope it turns out to be not complicated.
My cat Cinnamon is sleeping next to me as I type this.
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Before I read the contents, I was tempted to say/type 'have you tried a Doctor, or are they frowned upon' or some other smart aleck remark...![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) All the best.
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Bastet bless yor cat.
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Sorry Sander, if you love animals it's like another family member... hope everything turns to be OK and that Nika gets well soon.
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Is 50 cent Espresso a cheap shot?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Bean there, done that. How about we java about something else?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Perhaps you'd rather macchiato or three dollar purchase? Caffeine up that much is a latte money for such a little drink.*
* that is ethanol-deprived.
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That thought is such a grind.
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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Currently showing -34C (-29F), with a daytime high of -31C (-24F). Fortunately, I don't need to leave the house. I feel for those that need to get out to go to work, or have to work outside in weather like this.
Now, I think I'll emulate OriginalGriff and make myself a bacon sandwich for breakfast.
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I don't know how people can live in weather like that.
It snowed here yesterday and we're complaining. 
Steve Wozniak is the only thing at Apple that isn't evil.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I don't know how people can live in weather like that.
Wrestling with polar bears. Keeps you warm.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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I think the Mack Brewery is the northenmost brewery in the world (there was another one further north, but they went out of business). For many years, Mack has produced this Polar Beer. Wresting those could be worth the effort. Having enough of them could make you feel warm as well.
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Central heating plays a major role. That and a certain amount of stupid stubbornness, I think.
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You wouldn't believe the minimum requirements for building insulation in this country (Norway)! With any normal grade insulation mats, you need 12 in thick mats (I am yet talking about high quality insulation). Of course you must also have a sealed wind shield so that no hot air leaks out of the house. Windows have 3-layer glass (with insulating gases between the glass layers) to fulfill the requirements.
Take my living room as an example, covering half of my first floor. It has one long outer wall of about 8 meters, two shorter walls of 4 m. They are 2,5 m tall, making 40 square meter of wall surface. The maximum permitted loss is 0.18 W/sq.m per degree temperature difference, i.e. 7.2 Watt/degree. With -30°C outdoors and I want 20°C indoors, a heater delivering 360 W should be enough to keep my living room warm.
Windows are allowed more loss, up to 0.8 W/sq.m per degree. The two 1.2 m square windows, roughly 3 square meters total, are allowed 2.4 W/degree, or 120 W heat loss when it is -30°C outside. So, I may have to raise the pwer of the heater to 500 Watt. Or maybe not - a human in ordinary social activity emits in the order of 100 W, so inviting a few friends in should be enough.
The basement floor to the ground is only allowed 0.1 W/sq.m per degree. The ground two meters below the surface doesn't go much below freezing (the ground usually freezes about one meter deep in cold winters). So a 100 sq.m basement heated to 20°C (20 degrees above the ground temperature) should have a maximum heat loss through the floor of 200 W.
These are not extreme cases, it is the minimum requirement for new buildings. We will of course save a lot on the heating bill, but it most definitely does help keeping down the cost of putting up a new house!
In my opinion, the authorities have gone too far in their eagerness to save energy.
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That is pretty stiff. I guess good insulation is important when you live so far north though.
Steve Wozniak is the only thing at Apple that isn't evil.
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k5054 wrote: -34C (-29F)
Where the elephant are you situated? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Currently, he's in the kitchen cooking bacon.
No need to thank me, I'm glad to be of help.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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if it's -34C (-29F) in his kitchen, I don't think any amout of bacon can warm him up! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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