Fish Story

[howeird]

Hit Petco after work and picked up a bigger heater for the aquarium. The one in the kit was too small for 30 gallons. Also got some small blue gouramis and a handful of neon tetras and some plants. Now the tank looks fully occupied.

Finishing up loading the new laptop as I type this - slurping up my photos from the machine I'm typing on - and keep getting errors saying a file is in use or protected, even though they aren't. Buggy Microsoft network widget, very annoying. For those pix I'll transfer from DVD.

My boss was in a very strange mood today, I think he's found another job somewhere because he was being very vocal about the fact that everyone blames him for everything. Actually, it's only his boss who does, everyone else knows he's doing better than most people running two under-staffed and under-funded departments and also having to fill in for another department's work which lost all but one of its staff and waited till last week to hire 6 replacements. All of whom are useless until they can find some in-depth tech training.

It was pretty busy today, but for me it was small stuff, follow-ups and I finally succeeded in using my video server to capture video from the network via VideoLAN. Next experiment is to do the same with a DVD of some home movies.

Comments

Fish

[bigcatroary.livejournal.com]

My wife and I made it to our 3rd anniversary! She did ask about whether you were still considering moving to Thailand. I guess with your fish investment, you are settled down for the time being. My parent's 50th wedding anniversary is coming up Sept. 1st. I'll solicit you to give your 2 cents worth. Maybe for 1986 (Wizard of Oz year) More later.

Re: Fish

[howeird]

I'm still considering Thailand, but not till my lease is up at the end of the year. If I do move, the cats are going to be more difficult to find homes for - there are several independently owned aquarium stores which are happy to buy fish (when I moved to Seattle I made some serious $$ on some of my big fish).

Congrats on 3 years & 2 kids. What happened to the child-a-year program?

When's Guyana?

Re: Fish

[bigcatroary.livejournal.com]

The kid a year program was a 2 year program designed to replace ourselves in the population. We've done that. Guyana is a question mark. The Minister of Agriculture was just assasinated there, so the country may be going to hell. We'll keep an eye on it. Right now Ameeta doesn't think it's safe for a white man. Perhaps I'll dress up in my Ceylon makeup and costume from "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". I'd probably still get robbed and shot, but at least I would be in character.

[howeird]

So much for the legendary 5-year plan. ;-)

Your Mikado disguise was more compelling, I think, than the Drood one. Maybe just dye your hair black and pour on the self-tanning lotion and you'll be good to go. BYOKA.