It's not all gloom and doom, I also have some articles.

[conuly]

Though before I post them I want to repost the link to the gofundme, and also remind everybody that I could also use some support, if necessary, finding foster homes for any or all of the cats. (Cause, y'know, that's the priority here....) Even if you can't help financially, reblogging is also extremely helpful, or offering practical advice, or useful goods (food, cat food) so we could save our money for this. No good keeping the house if we all starve to death in the process.

Having long been genuine admirers of the United States Postal Service (USPS), which gives amazingly reliable service especially compared with many other countries, our team of investigators decided to test the delivery limits of this immense system. We knew that an item, say, a saucepan, normally would be in a package because of USPS concerns of entanglement in their automated machinery. But what if the item were not wrapped? How patient are postal employees? How honest? How sentimental? In short, how eccentric a behavior on the part of the sender would still result in successful mail delivery?

http://bit.ly/1krXCid

Opinion: Bank that helped Madoff is too big to comply with its sentence

http://on.mktw.net/1a32ljF

Colo. principal says she was fired over "disrespectful" policy towards poor children

http://cbsn.ws/1iWn4uB

London's first pay-per-minute cafe: will the idea catch on?
Ziferblat is London's first pay-per-minute cafe, based on a Russian chain where 'everything is free, except the time you spend there'

http://bit.ly/JIgIAb

Navy Apologizes After Mistakenly Sent Email

"In the memo, a Navy FOIA officer details a strategy to reject and stymie MacFarlane’s request for emails, photos and memoranda related to the Navy Yard shooting, in which 12 people died."

http://bit.ly/KwnSrd

​Former NSA whistleblowers plead for chance to brief Obama on agency abuses

http://bit.ly/1dZNAzx

Comments

[steorra]

Though now I think I may have misdescribed it ... from something I read I thought your grandmother lived with you but from looking at the gofundme page now it doesn't look like she does?

[conuly]

My sister had a friend help edit it, and the friend had older information. I have to re-edit when I get a spare moment, probably right before I go pick up Eva.

[conuly]

Okay, now that I've looked at it since the edit (I'm trying to move past the ostrich reaction whenever I'm stressed, but it's harder than you think!) that's pretty accurate. My grandmother is no longer living with us, but her own financial issues are affecting us.

[steorra]

Okay.
Yeah, I am familiar with ostrich reaction...
I'll edit my post with correction. (I realized that I had the numbers wrong even based on what I thought was the situation.)