Cairo has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Please be patient while I deal with this devastating diagnosis and figure out how to navigate things from here.

Our image hosting service is having some issues again (as I know a lot of you have noticed); unfortunately for right now it's making it impossible for me to do the queue because all I see are a lot of blank images. I'll keep checking back throughout the day and get to it as soon as I can.

Our images are working again, so I'll be getting to the queue today. Thank you again for your patience!

Hello everyone -- this is a bigger post with a bit more to go over.

First and foremost, Cairo is doing very well at home. She's a trooper for sure. Her next recheck is in a week and a half and we'll keep our fingers crossed that she's continuing to do well. Here's a nice cat tax picture of Cairo from when we took her on a walk last weekend.

Second, I'm remembering that Easter is a thing for once and I'm putting the 31st as an "off" day. I say this because I'll still come on and do the queue - but since everyone else is basically off, there may be a lot of items that aren't noted by the UAs and the like, so there probably won't be a lot of acceptances. But at least I remembered before the day!

Finally, here is the big one:

I will be having major surgery on April 5th. Don't worry, I'm fine! I'd originally just planned to take a week off from Subeta with some coverage and then be back. However, with the physical nature of my main job, I have to take 3 weeks off. I qualify for Washington Paid Family Medical Leave, which is great - it means I won't go hungry those 3 weeks. However, it also means that I (likely) can't work for Subeta for those three weeks, either - or I could lose my benefits, which I definitely can't afford to do!

will be doing the queue for me while I recover, and will be handling CW-related tickets. I'm not actually going anywhere, so I'll be around - but not on the clock. Right now I'm erring on the side of caution and assuming I will be out for those 3 full weeks, but I'll keep you informed if I'm able to come back sooner!