Does it diminish the achievement knowing that the lives in question are those of our very own tropical fish? Nah. While we moved a month ago, the tank only came to stay with us again this weekend ( Read more... )

I totally forgot that the new Round Rock dog park grand opening was today! crap crap crap.

Ok, since my plan from a year ago to create a project and needle/hook tracking system is now someone else's reality, I've decided to continue work on my other brilliant idea. The basic database is designed, the main layout is penciled together, it just requires some coding... and a name. I actually found an appropriate 7 letter compound word that ( Read more... )

No pictures yet, but yesterday when I was getting a feeder rat for Kaa, Herpeton had the most itty bittiest baby guinea pigs I've ever seen in a store. You have to know my husband to know that I could not possibly not get him one. She's a sweet little tri-color. So far: not bite-y, willing to leap from tall tummies, and quick to adjust to ( Read more... )

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So when we picked up new tetra for the tank today, I was telling the fish guy how much I loved my little glolite tetras, but they're so stupid. One I had once exploded because it ate too much. And he told me that most likely, it was a female that was "eggbound." So, not only was KingPin a girl, but she couldn't drop her eggs and it killed her. ( Read more... )

Nothing to complain about here. Yup, that's why the quiet spell.

I recently watched all 30 episodes of Wolf's Rain, fan-subtitled. The first 27 episodes were good, interesting, somewhat confusing. But the last 3 episodes, omg, I was bawling. Sooooo sad. I've put My Neighbor Totoro in my Netflix queue in hopes of recovery. In the meantime, ( Read more... )

Rosencrantz: Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don't go on forever. Must have been shattering. Stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it. It never occured to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. ( Read more... )

On an interesting side note, we now know for certain that Misty, not Spot, thinks that the bottom feeder pellets (fish food) is catnip and that the sink is the most appropriate place to pee when you have a beef with management.

Our evil loving black cat escaped on Monday night. I had no idea there were so many resources for lost pets. We just moved to Pflugerville from the Parmer/Mopac area and he's probably completely disoriented. If you spot Spot (yes, our cat is named Spot, no it's nothing to do with Star Trek), please contact me! He is fixed and microchipped and ( Read more... )