I found this while randomly checking a now defunct padfly account.  I remember writing this during a typhoon a couple of months ago and am putting it up here for posterity's sake. - My cactus died today. Well, it probably was already dying the whole of this past week but it was only today that I noticed.  A co-worke gave it to me last year as a Christmas present, something to liven up my then incredibly bare station.  The cactus was ... oddly shaped and was named Richard because it resembled the shortened version of that name.  Don't worry, it'll…