I don’t name people-names when blogging. Instead, I refer to people by a character nickname. If you become a regularly appearing personality in my blog posts, you may recognize yourself one day.
TMc – That’s me! Sociably anti-social lazybones with definite opinions.
DMc – Mr. TMc, and the love of my life.
Mom – My mother. The Empress. She who must be obeyed because it’ll turn out it was for your own good anyway (sincerely, I shit you not, this is always true).
Gogi – My late maternal grandmother. Gone but never, ever forgotten.
Little Sister – My younger sister. Gorgeous, awesome, living her best life. Mother of my awesome Niece and Nephew.
Baby Bro – My younger brother. Veteran Marine, creative soul, I often think he got the best of our family’s DNA.
McMom – DMc’s mother
The Kids – Our cats. We were not blessed with human children. Ergo, we spoil the cats to a ridiculous level. Cool thing about feline children? Nobody calls CPS if you need to leave them alone for 48 hours (obviously, fully stocked/situated).
- Alley – RIP to my Little Miss Good Girl. My Familiar, gone over the Rainbow Bridge in May 2023 at the age of 18.
- Bobby – RIP, sweet boy. Alley’s littermate, gone over the Rainbow Bridge in October 2018 at the age of 13.
- Brutus – the Cat Formerly Known As Feral. RIP, Big Broopy, gone over the Rainbow Bridge in September 2022.
- Ruthie Ann Biscuits – a/k/a The New Kid. Adopted as Brutus’ Kitten at 6 months old in February 2019. She’s the only long-term feline resident of the TX McCasa who lived to make the move to the FL McCasa.
- Secret Agent Cocoa Pebbles – Pebbles strolled onto our back patio at the TX McCasa literally the day after Brutus crossed the Bridge, a litter of 4 kittens in tow. We put her and the kids up on the patio in heated housing, got everybody fed and the kittens weaned, handed the kids off to a cat rescue, and kept Pebbles because she picked us and she’s pretty groovy. She was the first cat to move to FL, to keep Mom company after she lost her boy kitty Marquis.
- Bam-Bam (a/k/a Bammy Lou Hoo) – Yard cat rescue in FL, a gift from the Cat Distribution System. To our and our veterinarian’s amazement, this lovely long-haired orange girl turned out to be fixed and chipped at her first doctor visit. We offer both curses and thanks to the idiot who dumped or lost her.
- Betty Bam-Ba-Lam (a/k/a Betty Lou Too) – Yard cat rescue #2 in FL, another gift from the Cat Distribution System. Semi-feral and kinda crazy looking at first, she chose us in a most definitive manner, and is turning into a real beauty as she grows up.
The BAMF – My web administrator, hosting company, former co-worker and all-around technical Bad Ass Mo-Fo. He’s on my super-short list of people I ship cookies cross-country to annually.
L – We’ve been friends since we were both young, skinny, and a lot dumber than we are today. She is a lady of class and elegance, both in person and via the grace of her written word dances.
The Rocket Scientist (TRS) – TRS and I have been buddies for over 45 years now. As happens, there have been gaps whilst we fell out of touch doing our own things, but we’ve reconnected. It’s as if no time at all has passed. Except for that bit where she can’t really tell me much about what she does for a living or she’d have to kill me.