Never saw the sun shining so bright

We're giving our pet rabbit Sunshine cough syrup again. Not for her hay fever. That hasn't come back, which we appreciate, since it seems inefficient for a rabbit to have hay fever. But this is because she's had a relapse of this problem where her chin loses its fur. She shouldn't have a bald patch down there. We have a medicated powder, left over from last year, to help with this. But to get at her chin we have to lift her head up. While it's possible to sneak your fingers around her neck to rub powder in she does not like it, and she will spend a couple seconds growling at you before she turns to punching.

So the better approach is to get her to lift her head. And thus the cough syrup, the taste of which she likes about 20% more than she likes being alive. What we're hoping is we're giving a small enough dose that it won't affect her biology any; it's maybe a tenth of the dose she'd get for her sneezing. But it is enough to grab her attention and keep it. The drawback is if she doesn't get any cough syrup out pretty soon, she starts nuzzling, and then biting, and grabbing, the syringe, and I can't squirt with it very slowly. So we have to be fairly well-coordinated, with me holding the syringe up to get her to lift her head, and bunny_hugger shaking powder on and rubbing her chin, and then finally my squiring out enough cough syrup for Sunshine to feel satisfied.

Is it working? Good question. I think the bare patch is dwindling. So is her patience for putting up with this stuff, though. We'll see what runs out first.

Let's look around some more at Pinball At The Zoo, Thursday edition.

A little detail on Mad World: the scorecard offers this guide to how to interpret your play. I note this because I believe that I have never once gotten above 700, despite being a pretty solid pinball player and pretty reliable on these old electromechanical games. I grant some of this is because I am playing on pretty well beat-up 60-year-old tables with flippers and bumpers weaker and gates rustier than they would have been when this card was printed up.

Oh hey, Gottlieb/Premier's classic Rambo knockoff game Raven was there, and I even did well enough to get on the high score table! Also someone made a new backglass for it that replaces the hilariously 80s original photo ( https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1922&picno=44268 ) with a hilariously 2010s original photo!

Playmatic's Fiesta, from 1976. I will always play one of these Spanish-made games because they've got this wonderful strange feel to them. For example ...

Look at that playfield. Where have you ever seen square bumpers before? Also, this is a fun, weird playfield that I didn't get the hang of, but would like to know better. I never figured out how to shoot those AB-CD lanes on the left but that layout is great.

Trivia: The first telegraph across the English Channel was severed the day after it finally passed a few test messages intelligibly. A fisherman from Boulogne snagged it in his net and supposed it to be some novel seaweed. He cut out a chunk and took it to his friends. Source: The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers, Tom Standage. (Sounds a bit urban legend-y to me, but that's how Standage has it, and I can't say it's obviously false.)

Currently Reading: Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 6: Clean As A Weasel, Walt Kelly. Editors Mark Evanier, Eric Reynolds.