This evening, I found Louie --dead. He seemed to have gotten stuck between the side of the tank and the air pump ( Read more... )

I went to feed the fish today, Pascal was doing his usual thing, Shadow was swimming crazily though the tank, and Spartan was just hangin' out ( Read more... )

Four years ago, late 2001/early 2002, I bought a book: Anne Rice "Lasher" as part of my "expanding horizons reading project" to read other authors other than my comfort zone of Stephen King. This little self undertaking led me to several books, such as "The House of Sand and Fog," "She's Come Undone," "Toxin," and even "Whiteout" - but I found one ( Read more... )

I finally bought some fish today - I've got the three stooges, Pascal, Shadow, and Hikari. Pascal is the bad-boy-betta of the tank, and Shadow and Hikari are two little --whatchamacallits... White and Black spotted fish... Even the guy at Meijer didn't know how to pronounce the name of them ( Read more... )