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Interesting birthday so far
Nov. 16th, 2002 03:11 pmKirby took me to East Side where I had some tasty blueberry blintzes, and we roamed around Hyde Park. There was an art fair thing going on, with guys playing guitar and tie-dye. The tie-dye wasn't that good, but there was a lady selling really nice hand-thrown bowls for cheap, so I spend some birthday money. Then another lady had tribal-art looking solar disks cut out of metal and polished and attractively anodized, so I got one for our purple wall. I spent most of the rest of it on fish bulbs. Kirby'd been sick so she dropped me off at home at this point.
So I started looking to install the fish bulbs, and hub is looking with me and says "Oh no! Pinchy!" I saw a pathetic husk, torn almost in half. I was very depressed, and turned away. I asked hub to give Pinchy a burial at sea, I just couldn't stand to watch. Who the hell was in there that could rend Pinchy in twain? It seemed a bad omen that my birthday gift was slain on my actual birthday (I knew it was today because I'd seen him earlier this morning and he was fine). So hub's fishing out the remains, and cries "Pinchy's not dead, he molted!" There he was, hiding under a plant (Pinchy, I mean), looking a particularly lovely shade of almost royal blue with purple streaks, not dead at all! Huzzah! Amazement! He molted on my birthday- that seems like a good omen!
The lighting really makes a difference in the tank. Hub is also cooking me a wonderful dinner and trying to make my favorite cake- black forest. He also got me yummy treats from Dr.Chocolate- including dark chocolate covered popcorn. One of my favorites!
He's currently trying to clean out the pump to the isolation tank (see Floatasia link over there on the left) which stopped working recently. He looked into it, and it was filled with these beautiful crystalline salt structures, that while they have the advantage of being very pretty, they totally prevent the motor from moving at all. We had the thing on a timer to run for 30 minutes every day whether anyone floated in it or not, so it's a mystery how this happened. Now he's disassembled the thing and is pounding the stuff out with a hammer, while I'm grabbing them like any corvid and going 'ooh, pretty! I'm keeping this one!' So now I have a small handful of pea to peach pit sized Epsom salt crystals.
So I started looking to install the fish bulbs, and hub is looking with me and says "Oh no! Pinchy!" I saw a pathetic husk, torn almost in half. I was very depressed, and turned away. I asked hub to give Pinchy a burial at sea, I just couldn't stand to watch. Who the hell was in there that could rend Pinchy in twain? It seemed a bad omen that my birthday gift was slain on my actual birthday (I knew it was today because I'd seen him earlier this morning and he was fine). So hub's fishing out the remains, and cries "Pinchy's not dead, he molted!" There he was, hiding under a plant (Pinchy, I mean), looking a particularly lovely shade of almost royal blue with purple streaks, not dead at all! Huzzah! Amazement! He molted on my birthday- that seems like a good omen!
The lighting really makes a difference in the tank. Hub is also cooking me a wonderful dinner and trying to make my favorite cake- black forest. He also got me yummy treats from Dr.Chocolate- including dark chocolate covered popcorn. One of my favorites!
He's currently trying to clean out the pump to the isolation tank (see Floatasia link over there on the left) which stopped working recently. He looked into it, and it was filled with these beautiful crystalline salt structures, that while they have the advantage of being very pretty, they totally prevent the motor from moving at all. We had the thing on a timer to run for 30 minutes every day whether anyone floated in it or not, so it's a mystery how this happened. Now he's disassembled the thing and is pounding the stuff out with a hammer, while I'm grabbing them like any corvid and going 'ooh, pretty! I'm keeping this one!' So now I have a small handful of pea to peach pit sized Epsom salt crystals.
