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Bullet bitten
Sep. 17th, 2022 12:16 amFinally syphoned 2/3 of the murky green aquarium water and replaced with clear conditioned water. I can see my fish again!
Got all my stuff done today with one item delayed and one I'll get to later. First thing was to bring two pairs of pants to be hemmed, and if needed taken in. There's a cleaner's around the corner which does alterations, they even have a fitting room, and the nice lady had me try on each pair and pinned them. She measured the width on the tux pants and said they are about an inch wider than average, but well within spec, no need to take them in.
Next stop was the nails place, I timed it just right and got my fave manicurist right away. Told her I would miss my next appointment in 2 weeks because I'll be moving. One more week and I'll start packing. After the manicure I hung out at the coffee shop a few doors down - I like their iced tea and love the chocolate-dipped chocolate croissants.
Across the bay to the Great Mall, returned the suit jacket for which there are no matching pants. Minor confusion because apparently they had charged me for the full suit, and the computer wanted to see the tag for the pants. Some more investigation showed they had only charged me for the jacket, but since there was also supposed to be a pair of pants, it gave the cashier the option to add the tag for that to the refund. An easy $180 which probably cost $5 in gas. Since it was lunchtime, I walked around the mall for exercise and eye candy and had lunch in the food court. The Japanese food stand, which is next to the Chinese food stand, is now serving Chinese food and the workers are wearing Mr. Chu uniforms. Had Chinese because the Italian place was out of meatballs.
Stopped at Safeway near the apartment to get some wings for tomorrow's potluck. After a lot of not understanding that all I wanted was wings, the young man behind the counter said "oh, we can sell you 20 wings for $8" so I ordered 20 each of two kinds. So much for that task.
Back home, watched the last half of the Cal-UW game, which was a total nail-biter. Cleanly played (I think only about 6 penalties per side) and lots of very hard hits (three or four game-stopping injuries, including one ambulance-on-the-astroturf event). UW almost blew an 8-point lead in the last 5 minutes, but Cal's QB wasn't able to complete passes from the 5-yard line on 3rd & 4th downs. The highly annoying announcers credited the defense with the win, but truth is the UW offense which scored all the points, and it was Cal's offense which lost the game, without much interference from the UW defense on that last drive.
Most of the game Pumpkin was curled up on my lap. :-)
During breaks and time outs I collected all the shoes I don't wear and filled two garbage bags.
After the game I fired up the PC and signed up for an online class, and was planning on buying tickets to see 42nd Street at the theater formerly known as Saratoga Drama Group, but (a) tickets are $30 a pop and (b) they only had a handful of seats left, none of them good ones. Looked at next Saturday, and saw about the same thing. There were a couple of good seats, but I can't see paying that much for community theater. Especially community theater using a small city council chamber auditorium and is going to be sold out anyway.
Also updated my travel "notebook" which I keep on my PC and my phone, to include my flights and hotel info for my nephew's wedding in a month. Looking at the hotel, discovered it does not have a free airport shuttle despite being a mile from the airport. So I reserved a rental car. Taxi fare is more than a rental.
Filled the hummingbird feeder, which I noticed was almost empty when i checked on the litterboxes, which look like they can go another week before needing to be changed.
Which reminds me, the experiment of putting Domino's food dish up on the cat tree landing was a FAIL. She knocked it off last night before it was quite empty, and wouldn't go back up there by herself when I refilled it. So it is now on the floor on the other side of the cat tree from Pumpkin's, which is where the second dry food tower had been. Bottom line is both cats have access to both food dishes, so I won't know who eats how much. But judging from the first two days, they both walk away when they are full, and return when they are hungry again, so I think I will trust their instincts.
I took the shoes to a donation box under Whole Foods, and from there went to Starbucks, where I am now. Home soon, dinner will be what I bought yesterday, since it is cool enough to turn on the oven. The thing I put off doing was flushing down the fish and throwing out the aquariums. Before I started writing this I went on Craig's List and advertised free fish. There are not many (11 total). If the person who takes the fish wants the whole setup, fine. But I don't think that very likely.
The thing I forgot to do was plug my new address into the business card template.
Plans for tomorrow:
Concert at 1:30 (be there by 1)
End of the season band potluck party after
Maybe meet Janice for coffee after the party. She will be bringing twins to the concert she sometimes takes care of, so maybe not.
Maybe take the first class in the online course.
Well how about that, someone just called to claim the fish. Yay!
Next stop was the nails place, I timed it just right and got my fave manicurist right away. Told her I would miss my next appointment in 2 weeks because I'll be moving. One more week and I'll start packing. After the manicure I hung out at the coffee shop a few doors down - I like their iced tea and love the chocolate-dipped chocolate croissants.
Across the bay to the Great Mall, returned the suit jacket for which there are no matching pants. Minor confusion because apparently they had charged me for the full suit, and the computer wanted to see the tag for the pants. Some more investigation showed they had only charged me for the jacket, but since there was also supposed to be a pair of pants, it gave the cashier the option to add the tag for that to the refund. An easy $180 which probably cost $5 in gas. Since it was lunchtime, I walked around the mall for exercise and eye candy and had lunch in the food court. The Japanese food stand, which is next to the Chinese food stand, is now serving Chinese food and the workers are wearing Mr. Chu uniforms. Had Chinese because the Italian place was out of meatballs.
Stopped at Safeway near the apartment to get some wings for tomorrow's potluck. After a lot of not understanding that all I wanted was wings, the young man behind the counter said "oh, we can sell you 20 wings for $8" so I ordered 20 each of two kinds. So much for that task.
Back home, watched the last half of the Cal-UW game, which was a total nail-biter. Cleanly played (I think only about 6 penalties per side) and lots of very hard hits (three or four game-stopping injuries, including one ambulance-on-the-astroturf event). UW almost blew an 8-point lead in the last 5 minutes, but Cal's QB wasn't able to complete passes from the 5-yard line on 3rd & 4th downs. The highly annoying announcers credited the defense with the win, but truth is the UW offense which scored all the points, and it was Cal's offense which lost the game, without much interference from the UW defense on that last drive.
Most of the game Pumpkin was curled up on my lap. :-)
During breaks and time outs I collected all the shoes I don't wear and filled two garbage bags.
After the game I fired up the PC and signed up for an online class, and was planning on buying tickets to see 42nd Street at the theater formerly known as Saratoga Drama Group, but (a) tickets are $30 a pop and (b) they only had a handful of seats left, none of them good ones. Looked at next Saturday, and saw about the same thing. There were a couple of good seats, but I can't see paying that much for community theater. Especially community theater using a small city council chamber auditorium and is going to be sold out anyway.
Also updated my travel "notebook" which I keep on my PC and my phone, to include my flights and hotel info for my nephew's wedding in a month. Looking at the hotel, discovered it does not have a free airport shuttle despite being a mile from the airport. So I reserved a rental car. Taxi fare is more than a rental.
Filled the hummingbird feeder, which I noticed was almost empty when i checked on the litterboxes, which look like they can go another week before needing to be changed.
Which reminds me, the experiment of putting Domino's food dish up on the cat tree landing was a FAIL. She knocked it off last night before it was quite empty, and wouldn't go back up there by herself when I refilled it. So it is now on the floor on the other side of the cat tree from Pumpkin's, which is where the second dry food tower had been. Bottom line is both cats have access to both food dishes, so I won't know who eats how much. But judging from the first two days, they both walk away when they are full, and return when they are hungry again, so I think I will trust their instincts.
I took the shoes to a donation box under Whole Foods, and from there went to Starbucks, where I am now. Home soon, dinner will be what I bought yesterday, since it is cool enough to turn on the oven. The thing I put off doing was flushing down the fish and throwing out the aquariums. Before I started writing this I went on Craig's List and advertised free fish. There are not many (11 total). If the person who takes the fish wants the whole setup, fine. But I don't think that very likely.
The thing I forgot to do was plug my new address into the business card template.
Plans for tomorrow:
Concert at 1:30 (be there by 1)
End of the season band potluck party after
Maybe meet Janice for coffee after the party. She will be bringing twins to the concert she sometimes takes care of, so maybe not.
Maybe take the first class in the online course.
Well how about that, someone just called to claim the fish. Yay!
Interesting Developments
Jun. 28th, 2011 01:05 amYesterday I un-friended a recruiter on LinkedIn after not hearing anything from her for a month after I had a phone interview for a 3-month, low-paying contract. Today she calls telling me the client wants me to come in for an interview. We set it up for Wednesday afternoon. She blows off the usual "meet the candidate" opportunity which most local contract agencies require before they send someone out on an interview. She blames the client for being slow, but on a short term contract it's unheard of for a hiring manager to take more than two weeks to bring the finalists in.
But it's good to have a bite, and the company is one I like, and the commute can be done on non-freeway roads if I want.
I left a thank you note on Facebook to the director of Oliver, and he replied he was looking forward to seeing me at callbacks Thursday. This confused me for a bit, because the web site said callbacks were Tuesday, but I'm guessing he's doing the major leading roles Tuesday and the rest of us Thursday. Anyway, it means I don't need to wait for a phone call.
Spent the afternoon looking for items on my shopping list. First, though, was a trip to a Chinese place a BASFA friend highly recommended on Pruneridge called 456. He is in love with their "hot oil dumplings". I have never heard of this dish, in all my years of dim summing and Asian eating. Plugged the address into the GPS, it took me there, but by the time it said I had arrived I was half a block past it, and just barely noticed it. Their sign is just plain weird. Drove around the block and got it right the second time.
On the outside this looks like a cheap, tacky joint, but inside it is very nice. The plan was to order a variety of appetizers to go and bring them home for lunch & snacks. The women who took my order were very nice, I took a seat at a table and read my Kindle. The order was up in less than 10 minutes, I think. Prices are high - $8/pint for most of them. $1 each for "paper-wrapped chicken". More on this later.
Told the GPS to find me the nearest Fry's, which was the one on Brokaw. Kind of a roundabout route, but it got me there. Sort of. It said I had arrived when actually I was a left turn and two blocks away from the main entrance. I was looking for full sheets of inkjet-printable decal and/or clear labels. They didn't have any. Next, Office Depot, which turned out to be the huge one in the megacomplex of megastores on Coleman. It had both. I bought one of each. Next on my list was Target, to get mesh laundry bags, but they didn't have the ones I needed (these are replacements for a hamper, so not just any will do). Then PetSmart, for small plecosthemus to chomp down the inch of decomposed plants at the bottom of what was my betta tank, and which I wanted to be again. They had just what I wanted, I bought four, and they also had a pair of adult female bettas, very rare indeed for a chain store (the bettas they sell are babies, too young to mate by maybe 3-4 months). I also wanted to get gas, but that far from home with live fish I needed to go straight home.
Home, set the fish in their bags in the tank to equalize temps, heated up a plate of "hot oil dumplings" and had that for lunch. A pint was more than I could finish. Not because they were too filling, but because they got difficult to eat as they cooled. This dish is not a dumpling in hot oil. It is boiled pork won tons in a very mild Thai satay (peanut) sauce. Very yummy, but for entirely different reasons than the name suggested. After I set that aside, I nibbled on a couple of BBQ pork ribs, which were very good, and a couple of pieces of BBQ pork, also good. Those will be snacks over the next few days. The "paper-wrapped chicken" was really chicken gizzards baked with a mild broth/sauce and bits of spinach or bok choi leaf, in a square of material folded in half and pinched to make a closed triangle. The material is a thin foil on the outside and coated paper on the inside. These were the best of the appetizers. Only one more left. :-)
Cut the fish bags open and poured the fish into the tank. They all have found their hiding places and nom nom stations. The bettas look lovely. I need to wait a couple of months before getting a male, though.
Hung around with the cats, then went to Rotten Robbie's for gas - I hate hate hate that $3.779 is a bargain price. Obama-Congressfail. I so hope a strong Democrat will beat Obama in the primaries. One who can stand up to the Pentagon, Wall Street and the teabags. Hilary might be able to pull it off, but if she wanted to she would have resigned by now, I think.
Clocktower is across the street, had an iced tea and read some more Darwin. Still too early to go to BASFA, so home to kill time, then to BASFA. Pretty thin crowd, but it was a lot of fun. Auctions did not have enough interest.
Plans for tomorrow:
Depends on the weather. "They" are predicting rain. I doubt it. But:
Rain: Stay home, maybe see a movie, get a massage, start ripping my show tunes CDs
Sun: Pacifica with my fishing gear & camera.
But it's good to have a bite, and the company is one I like, and the commute can be done on non-freeway roads if I want.
I left a thank you note on Facebook to the director of Oliver, and he replied he was looking forward to seeing me at callbacks Thursday. This confused me for a bit, because the web site said callbacks were Tuesday, but I'm guessing he's doing the major leading roles Tuesday and the rest of us Thursday. Anyway, it means I don't need to wait for a phone call.
Spent the afternoon looking for items on my shopping list. First, though, was a trip to a Chinese place a BASFA friend highly recommended on Pruneridge called 456. He is in love with their "hot oil dumplings". I have never heard of this dish, in all my years of dim summing and Asian eating. Plugged the address into the GPS, it took me there, but by the time it said I had arrived I was half a block past it, and just barely noticed it. Their sign is just plain weird. Drove around the block and got it right the second time.
On the outside this looks like a cheap, tacky joint, but inside it is very nice. The plan was to order a variety of appetizers to go and bring them home for lunch & snacks. The women who took my order were very nice, I took a seat at a table and read my Kindle. The order was up in less than 10 minutes, I think. Prices are high - $8/pint for most of them. $1 each for "paper-wrapped chicken". More on this later.
Told the GPS to find me the nearest Fry's, which was the one on Brokaw. Kind of a roundabout route, but it got me there. Sort of. It said I had arrived when actually I was a left turn and two blocks away from the main entrance. I was looking for full sheets of inkjet-printable decal and/or clear labels. They didn't have any. Next, Office Depot, which turned out to be the huge one in the megacomplex of megastores on Coleman. It had both. I bought one of each. Next on my list was Target, to get mesh laundry bags, but they didn't have the ones I needed (these are replacements for a hamper, so not just any will do). Then PetSmart, for small plecosthemus to chomp down the inch of decomposed plants at the bottom of what was my betta tank, and which I wanted to be again. They had just what I wanted, I bought four, and they also had a pair of adult female bettas, very rare indeed for a chain store (the bettas they sell are babies, too young to mate by maybe 3-4 months). I also wanted to get gas, but that far from home with live fish I needed to go straight home.
Home, set the fish in their bags in the tank to equalize temps, heated up a plate of "hot oil dumplings" and had that for lunch. A pint was more than I could finish. Not because they were too filling, but because they got difficult to eat as they cooled. This dish is not a dumpling in hot oil. It is boiled pork won tons in a very mild Thai satay (peanut) sauce. Very yummy, but for entirely different reasons than the name suggested. After I set that aside, I nibbled on a couple of BBQ pork ribs, which were very good, and a couple of pieces of BBQ pork, also good. Those will be snacks over the next few days. The "paper-wrapped chicken" was really chicken gizzards baked with a mild broth/sauce and bits of spinach or bok choi leaf, in a square of material folded in half and pinched to make a closed triangle. The material is a thin foil on the outside and coated paper on the inside. These were the best of the appetizers. Only one more left. :-)
Cut the fish bags open and poured the fish into the tank. They all have found their hiding places and nom nom stations. The bettas look lovely. I need to wait a couple of months before getting a male, though.
Hung around with the cats, then went to Rotten Robbie's for gas - I hate hate hate that $3.779 is a bargain price. Obama-Congressfail. I so hope a strong Democrat will beat Obama in the primaries. One who can stand up to the Pentagon, Wall Street and the teabags. Hilary might be able to pull it off, but if she wanted to she would have resigned by now, I think.
Clocktower is across the street, had an iced tea and read some more Darwin. Still too early to go to BASFA, so home to kill time, then to BASFA. Pretty thin crowd, but it was a lot of fun. Auctions did not have enough interest.
Plans for tomorrow:
Depends on the weather. "They" are predicting rain. I doubt it. But:
Rain: Stay home, maybe see a movie, get a massage, start ripping my show tunes CDs
Sun: Pacifica with my fishing gear & camera.
One More Milestone Passed
Apr. 3rd, 2011 06:40 pmFinal Carousel Performance was excellent, as usual. The audience was not quite as responsive as Saturday night, but that's not unusual for matinée. The cast totally nailed the finale, the last chord was one to remember. I have it on iPhone, I'll upload it somewhere sometime soon.
After the show I moved a lot of stuff off stage and out of the wings and out from behind the cyc, and bailed after everything was staged to be trucked away, when it was clear that (a) the people in charge of loading the truck were going to engineer the project to death and (b) there were more than enough younger, stronger hands than needed.
Am at the Pear Ave Starbucks, for just long enough to write this
Before the show I went to PetSmart for a variety of aquarium filter refills, of which they had none, so drove down the block to Pet Club, which had them all for pretty close to the online prices. Also picked up a ream of printer paper at BB for $4. More than I like to play, but less than everyone else for a single.
Plans for tomorrow:
Call the cardiologist. Read the job postings. Fake the rest.
After the show I moved a lot of stuff off stage and out of the wings and out from behind the cyc, and bailed after everything was staged to be trucked away, when it was clear that (a) the people in charge of loading the truck were going to engineer the project to death and (b) there were more than enough younger, stronger hands than needed.
Am at the Pear Ave Starbucks, for just long enough to write this
Before the show I went to PetSmart for a variety of aquarium filter refills, of which they had none, so drove down the block to Pet Club, which had them all for pretty close to the online prices. Also picked up a ream of printer paper at BB for $4. More than I like to play, but less than everyone else for a single.
Plans for tomorrow:
Call the cardiologist. Read the job postings. Fake the rest.
Too much of a good thing
Dec. 28th, 2010 09:22 pmslurped up too much chicken soup way too fast, had to turn the fan on to get my temp down. Thought I was gonna plotz.
Ironic, because on the way home from work I stopped at the pet store to get replacement heaters for both aquariums. Both of them had wimped out in this cold weather.
Listened to the first half of the NFL game on my way home from work by way of Psycho Donuts. We bailed out of work early due to some technical issues which prevented testing the machines which were on the agenda for the last half of the day, and the next ones on the list would have the same issue. Boss will stop in tomorrow, and point us at some work, hopefully.
I'm starting to wonder about Pandora. Bought the no-ads version, set up two new stations, one for Scott Joplin and one for Sousa. The stoopid algorithm keeps trying to add the soundtrack from Showboat to the former, and assorted Beethoven to the latter. And it *still* has a limit on the number of times I can give thumbs down, which I thought my $$ was supposed to make unlimited. How do they expect to match my musical taste if they severely limit my input?
Watched the second half of the game at home, while heating and eating the soup. After I was done eating, Pumpkin jumped up on the back of the recliner, nearly sending us and the chair backwards and horizontal. The last recliner was not a rocker, and the back was his favorite perch, but he's too heavy for this one.
The company I bought the telescope from sent a UPS tracking number this morning, but UPS says it hasn't been picked up yet. It's somewhere in the eastern time zone, probably NYC, which doesn't bode well for quick delivery, but I'm in no rush. It'll be one more toy to play with/tool to learn to use.
Plans for tonight: Nyquil if I have any, Southern Comfort if I haven't.
Plans for tomorrow:
Work
???
Was almost late for work because as I headed out the door Just In Time™, I saw the note on the whiteboard that I need to go to the PO and pick up my vacation hold mail. Which I did. Got to work right on time.
Work today was a lot of time taking video of intermittent artifacts, which was time consuming but needed to be done. The tough one was where I had to play a few minutes of one movie, then half an hour of a second movie, and then hit the rewind button. The bug was that a single frame of the first movie would flash on the screen and then disappear. Hard to see, harder to capture because it only happened once in 20 tries.
Ended the day with a series of dead boring license protection tests, each of which takes 5-10 minutes to set up and 10 seconds to run.
Needed to buy litterbox refills at Pet Club (PetCo and PetSmart carry the fine crystal kind which only lasts a week in wet weather) but did not want to fight for parking at the MtnView store, which shares a lot with Costco, and this being Turkey Day Eve and all. So I drove out to Blossom Hill Rd in S SJ, where there was plenty of parking. It's also a bigger store and much better arranged and managed. Also picked up a male betta to replace the one that got eaten a month or so ago.
Which meant going straight home, as it was about 45° out. Plan A had been to pick up an item at BestBoy which I'd ordered online. Will do that Saturday.
Downloaded the first of three tapes for Janice, the second one is downloading now, and it seems that she put the camcorder in her bag without turning it off. Lots of crowd noise (it's Great America) but totally blank video. The first tape was good quality, but I had to turn off the audio because she was talking baby talk all the way through it. Long story, I won't get into it here.
Plans for tomorrow:
Work (boss was happy to have the contractors come in because there is a ton of work to do).
Put Janice's video on DVD, or at least make a start.
Order a duck to go from a local Chinese place
Cat Tastic
Aug. 31st, 2010 11:35 pmJust weighed Domino, she is 10 lbs. Which means the hypoglycemia radiation treatment cured her. Yippee. At one point she was < 7 lbs. Before she got sick she was a chubby 11.5.
Meanwhile, the new male betta is being wooed by the partly transgendered female, but I can't tell what sex she thinks she is. They are acting like they both think they are males mating with a female. Spooky.
Busy day at work, got the tests done I needed to run, and spent a lot of time watching large chunks of movies and TV episodes. This time it's a 46-inch TV set, and I have to back up into my cubicle doorway to watch. Had a social call from two of the women engineers who wanted to see the new photos on my wall. They had not known they were taken by me, and were impressed.
Left for work late to wait for Fedex to deliver the camera, which they did right on time. Only had time to make sure it was what I'd ordered, and didn't play with it till after I got home tonight. I'd had the D300, this is the 300s, the camera they should have made in the first place. It has most of the features I like in the D90 with the extras of the D300. I should have a chance to try it out this weekend.
Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Babes staging rehearsal.
Meanwhile, the new male betta is being wooed by the partly transgendered female, but I can't tell what sex she thinks she is. They are acting like they both think they are males mating with a female. Spooky.
Busy day at work, got the tests done I needed to run, and spent a lot of time watching large chunks of movies and TV episodes. This time it's a 46-inch TV set, and I have to back up into my cubicle doorway to watch. Had a social call from two of the women engineers who wanted to see the new photos on my wall. They had not known they were taken by me, and were impressed.
Left for work late to wait for Fedex to deliver the camera, which they did right on time. Only had time to make sure it was what I'd ordered, and didn't play with it till after I got home tonight. I'd had the D300, this is the 300s, the camera they should have made in the first place. It has most of the features I like in the D90 with the extras of the D300. I should have a chance to try it out this weekend.
Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Babes staging rehearsal.
Have you seen the little fishies?
Aug. 20th, 2010 10:11 amSadly, the hundred or so baby jeweled ciclids are no longer in the tank. I don't think it was predators - Mom & Dad were keeping them under guard pretty well. They had plenty of food & air and the tank is clean, so I'm puzzled. Usually by this time a half dozen would be seen around the moss and in the parental cave. The adult pair have been in their dug-out cave under the rocks a lot, I suspect there will be another hatching.
Meanwhile, the male betta died. Pretty much killed off by the female, who is now 3/4 of the way transitioned into male. Fish do that sometimes, when a male is infertile, which this one seemed to be. So the dilemma is do I buy a replacement male, female or pair? The latter, probably. Let them duke it out.
Meanwhile, the male betta died. Pretty much killed off by the female, who is now 3/4 of the way transitioned into male. Fish do that sometimes, when a male is infertile, which this one seemed to be. So the dilemma is do I buy a replacement male, female or pair? The latter, probably. Let them duke it out.
Showed up at Ye Olde Towne Band rehearsals ready to try out the new horn, only to discover that we aren't rehearsing tonight. So I'm at the open-till-11 Starbucks which is on the way home, where there has been much traffic, some of it in the form of young women in very short shorts and cut-offs, two of whom are seated at the table in front of mine.
Caught up on most of my email, posted a lot of F-locked stuff.
While I was working from home Tuesday I took some time to watch the baby fish and their bright orange parents. The first tie I looked in the morning, I saw no babies. Then out comes Mom, who made several trips from the under-rock cave they jewels had excavated, spitting out mouthfuls of kiddies each time she came out front. In minutes there were about 50 babies around her. The babies in the breeder pen also got more active about that time.
This morning Mom was poking at the bottom of the breeder pen, looking for a way to rescue the kids, no doubt. I think they are safer in there for now, I have been feeding them baby food (a very fine powder) and they have a clump of live moss in there, so they should be okay.
Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Home
Caught up on most of my email, posted a lot of F-locked stuff.
While I was working from home Tuesday I took some time to watch the baby fish and their bright orange parents. The first tie I looked in the morning, I saw no babies. Then out comes Mom, who made several trips from the under-rock cave they jewels had excavated, spitting out mouthfuls of kiddies each time she came out front. In minutes there were about 50 babies around her. The babies in the breeder pen also got more active about that time.
This morning Mom was poking at the bottom of the breeder pen, looking for a way to rescue the kids, no doubt. I think they are safer in there for now, I have been feeding them baby food (a very fine powder) and they have a clump of live moss in there, so they should be okay.
Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Home
Not much to say
Jan. 24th, 2010 10:09 pmAfter breakfast, headed to Sunol and got there about 90 minutes early thanks to just leaving early and misunderstanding the event announcement. A little after noon people started gathering, chatting, it started to rain, the train arrived and we all got on it, a whole train to ourselves, not just the usual party caboose. About 50 of us, the train holds 250. Good company, the party was for a theater buddy, good food and a pleasant ride through Niles Canyon even if it was a bit wet here and there.
Back home in time to hear the Jets lost, and catch the start of the Saints-Vikings game. Ducked out for a couple of hours to have coffee with a friend, got back in time to see Favre blow the game and the wrong team win, helped by several blatantly wrong pass interference calls and the travesty that is Sudden Death. IMHO playoff games need to play a full quarter of OT, they are too important to let a coin toss decide them.
Caught up on my TiVo. This week's Mentalist was, I think, the most poorly written episode so far.
Rearranged some of the plants in the betta tank to provide max protection for the babies and max clearance for the bubble nest.
Tomorrow:
Work
50-50 chance of BASFA
Back home in time to hear the Jets lost, and catch the start of the Saints-Vikings game. Ducked out for a couple of hours to have coffee with a friend, got back in time to see Favre blow the game and the wrong team win, helped by several blatantly wrong pass interference calls and the travesty that is Sudden Death. IMHO playoff games need to play a full quarter of OT, they are too important to let a coin toss decide them.
Caught up on my TiVo. This week's Mentalist was, I think, the most poorly written episode so far.
Rearranged some of the plants in the betta tank to provide max protection for the babies and max clearance for the bubble nest.
Tomorrow:
Work
50-50 chance of BASFA
Tanks for the Memories
Sep. 30th, 2009 10:38 pmCelebrated the "whew! I don't have to move to a smaller cheaper apartment!" by buying an aquarium stand, some gravel, plastic plants, a divided betta tankette, some anacharis and four small pearl gouramis for a project I have been putting off for months.
To whit:
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So now that's done.
Tomorrow: expecting a different type of automatic litterbox to be delivered, will install it in place of one of the ones on the balcony, and see how wrong the "don't need to touch it for 30 days" claim is.
To whit:
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So now that's done.
Tomorrow: expecting a different type of automatic litterbox to be delivered, will install it in place of one of the ones on the balcony, and see how wrong the "don't need to touch it for 30 days" claim is.
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