Well we lost a total of 2 of the little neons. We considered an autopsy but the other fish ate them before we had a chance to extract the bodies. Water temp is good and clear not sure what the deal is but we went ahead and replaced the filter cartridge. Tuesday, well get a couple more plus a little hiding place for them to hide out.

We got up this morning to find that we had a death in the family. One of the neons over night died. The little bugger had been swimming a lot by itself lately. We were thinking he was just being a loaner. But this morning he's floating. The drifters as expected keep swimming up to him trying to take bites out of him.

Its interesting. Lately I've been contemplating my own mortality and how my family will deal with things. I've got no large or little life insurance. At one point I and my wife had very good life insurance policies. But our financial resources being as they are, we eventually had to let them go. Sad, for if we could of held out another couple years the policies would have become self supporting.

My disability income ends when I do. There is no consideration for family members in the SS department. You die, your family is on their own. I don't think the old "guess I just won't die" attitude is going to be the best plan. I'll need to work on this some.

We've found a new way to walk Riley the monster dog. My wife has a hard time controlling the beast when the 70 pound all muscle dog decides he wants to go and say hi to another dog. She pretty much fights him but eventually you know the dog is going to win. Originally, we tried hooking his leash to the wheelchair but he would cut in front of the chair and than get the leash caught in the chairs wheels. Than we decided to shorten up his lead. We now use 4 large carabiners (sp) to lead him with. We connect them to the back of my chair's seat. The length is long enough that he can walk to either side of me. Works great!! Plus Riley figuredout rather quickly that he can't pull me and the chair. The one time he tried the rear tire of the chair clipped his paw. Ever since than Riley goes where I go.

Plus there is always a nice slack on the lead now. Another advantage is my chair will go up to 8.5 mph.So we've been ending our little walks with a nice 2 block run and gentle walk back to the house afterwards.

I'll be back................

I missed blogging yesterday. A script ran by Google to track my activities was blocking my Linux Firefox from logging in to two separate sites. I've spent 2 hours tracking down the error. Unfortunately, last nights post was to do with my final solution to time travel and how we could undo all the errors mankind has made leading us to our ultimate demise.

However, since the powers to be at Google felt a need to adjust how they pry into my private business no doubt to add to their gold lined pockets, I was unable to make that post.

And today I've forgotten the solution. We are all doomed..............

More snails!! Yes you read correctly. We've got snails everywhere. Apparently the 2 lustful snails did something right. How I'm not sure, nor am I sure what ever they did should fall into the category of right. However, today we noticed small what appears to be snails in the Betta bowl.

Over with the Drifters in the other bowl still remains the snail from the unknown. We're still boggled over how that got there.

I've noticed if I go up to the tank with a light colored shirt all the fish will swim over and to the top. If I wear a dark color shirt they do not swim over or to the top. Wonder if the fish are seeing colors or just the light/dark of my shirt.

Think it may be worth a $500,000 study grant?......................................

Free points

See where the President of Iran wants to lay a wreath at the site of the WTC? What was our response. No. Will we ever learn? The guys falling out of favor in Iran. Now he can turn to his followers and say "I offered an olive branch, America said no. How can we deal with such people who only seem to understand war not peace?"

Of course he was out for points. And our " stay the course " bull headed attitude handed him a handful.

Been watching the sucker fish. This is interesting. The fish makes his way down the tank side sucking away. At the bottom he doesn't turn around and head back up but instead goes up backwards tail first! I have never seen this type of behavior before. Now I've got to get a second sucker fish to see what it does.

In the how did that happen department my wife and I have seen what appears to be a really small baby snail in the Aquarium. Before you go " you've been ragging on about the snails sex habits for weeks " the baby snail is in the tank with the fish, not in the bowl with the snails and betta. This is very strange.

In fact, if we were in older times someone could almost create a religion out of this............

Is that lead on your barbie or you happy to see me?

If you ingest lead do you gain weight? With all those toys and lead paint in the news lately, I'm thinking about ordering one of those test kits from Ebay. Of course you got to wonder if they work. I can see myself swabbing my grandsons toys with what appears to be a Tampon without the tube. What would be really interesting would be to test non toy items like fish. Wonder how much leads in a pet fish? Maybe I'll grab one of the drifters and rub him out!

Than you gotta wonder why fish do not appear to be affected by lead?

See where NASA is recruiting for new Astronauts? But they don't call them astronauts anymore now they are " Space Plane Pilots " You know as an Astronaut it seemed ok to sit on top of a roman candle with a billion pounds of explosives under your butt. The whole Space Plane Pilot just sounds gay to me. I can hear the announcer now: And we have liftoff of America's 217 Space Plane Pilot flaming his way to the stars. Sort of a Rocky Horror meets Buck Rogers kind of thing.

Look at the illegal thing. I've noticed a lot in the news lately. You watch, Bush is going to pull a fast one. I'm sure its one of those " Bush pretends to reduce troops, Congress slips in amnesty for the 12 million that use to be 30 million illegals into the defense bill, and we Americans bend over while Pinata's get rammed up our asses.

Now thats gay!

I really would like to know what people " Government for the people " refers to?

Almost fall

Couple more days and summer's over. Than the blistering heat of the desert just becomes the heat of the desert.

We've been seeing an increase of humming birds. Must be passing thru on the way to Mexico. Seen a few Monarchs also. My wife has planted a lot of flowers in the yard so the little critters have plenty to munch on.

Riley the dog howls with the sirens. Not really well though. I think I'll get one of those nature cd's of wolves howling so he can go into training. Teach the dog a respectable howl. We're talking about a 70 pound Shepard/wolf/ and something else dog. When my wife walks him it is more like he walks her. Last couple days we've clipped him to my chair and I've walked him. 70 pound dog has no chance against a 300 pound wheelchair and 200 pound person. He goes where I go.

Hopefully a few weeks of this and he'll stop draggingmy wife.

I talked about the Neons and Drifters, but I've left out the little sucker fish. You know the thing that looks like its a left over from the Jurassic period. Spends all day sucking up the algae that tries to grow in the tank. It does a wonderful job considering its only one. I'm thinking about getting another to keep it company.

I also wondered if fish drink? Or how do they bath?

We've been having a lot of fun around here. With some help from some generous friends our music system has been enhanced with a better cd player and nicer speakers. For the last few weeks we've been re-listening to our cd collection. Saying things like: "wow I never heard that before". We have now gone through our music collection several times, I'm gonna have to go out and buy more................

Kilogram mysteriously losing weight I read that the official weight in France has actually lost weight.

Just a wild guess but could it be out gassing?

Ever wonder why?

I like Andy Rooney. He always makes me laugh. But there are lots of questions he hasn't asked. Like: " Have you ever wondered why " you click START to turn off your computer? Ok, I know that was an old one but how about: "Have you ever wondered why " you can't get the last drops out of your soda can? "Have you ever wondered why " Do one size fits all condoms really fit every guy out there? "Have you ever wondered why " it is that the first time your wife ask you to pick up some feminine product the isle is loaded with Grandma's who just got off the bus from a bingo party?

"Have you ever wondered why " TV screens are measured diagonally? We don't watch our TV's that way. "Have you ever wondered why " Morticians are Doctors they're just afraid of failing.

Well maybe there is a reason Andy hasn't asked these questions.

How about Ceaser the Dog Whisperer? Here's a guy who expects dogs to either walk behind him or along side of him and never pull, but the first thing he does is slap on his blades and have the dog drag him down the street. Talk about mixed signals. He's not whispering, he's down right confusing the little doggies. Don't pull, mush!!

Yesterday I turned on my TV to watch a DVD movie. The screen turned black and than these words were presented " Formated to fit this screen "

"Have you ever wondered why " they get into your house to measure your TV screen?

C-ya

This is harder than I thought. Really when your life doesn't really get anywhere, there isn't that much to say. I mean face it the high lite of my day is the fact that I only took one nap today.

We met with the grandson's teachers today. Not much to talk about. School was hot. I'm glad I don't need to be there every day.

Lets see if I'm more productive on Friday.

The lady's a tramp

Having already downed a few power drinks, she turned
around, faced him, looked him straight in the eye
and said, . . . 'Listen up, buddy I screw anybody,
any time anywhere, your place, my place, in the car,
front door, back door, on the ground, standing up, sitting
down, naked or fully dressed, dirty, clean ... it
just doesn't matter to me. I've been doing it ever
since I got out of college and I just love it.'

Eyes now wide with interest, he responded - - 'No
kidding. I'm a lawyer, too. What firm are you with?'

Anyone missing a nuke?

I love to read conspiracy websites. It doesn't seem to take much to get these folks going that is for sure.

Lets see, how about the nukes being " accidentally " loaded on the B52 and flown over the country. Originally there were 6 reported cruise missiles with nuclear warheads loaded but the destination base only reported having 5. Oh wait, they miscounted it was only 5 cruise missiles loaded we miss counted, oops, we bad! I thought the Airforce had a higher education standard than this?

Someone tell the White House that they can now recruit 3 and 4 year olds to join the Airforce. Fresh meat for the oil wars.

Now here is something interesting. Go to the El A1 Isreal Airlines web site and try to book a flight out of New York on September 14th. You can't. For some reason they have decided to not fly out of New York on the 14th. Hmm, interesting. Of course its interesting until you find out that the El A1 has no flights out from anywhere on that day, which I believe is a Jewish holiday.

Of course maybe they decided not to fly because the Air National Defense network has been ordered to stand down on September 14th. You've heard this order before. They were ordered to stand down on 9-11-2001 as attacks on American soil were taking place.

I love this stuff! It is so much better than watching TV I think.

Oh, almost forgot. Another suggested that the massive search for Steve Fosset is actually a cover story. What they are really looking for is that lost nuke even though the B52 never actually flew over that area. Next they will tell us nukes can walk.


Of course to be on the safe side I think I'll stay out of New York on the 14th anyways.

The drifters, neons and betta have settled into their new feeding routine. Twice a day, and they eat it all. The snails have cut way back on their perverse activities. I'm wondering if we're going to be hearing the squshy slimey sounds of little baby snails in the near future?

I've had at least a 1/2 dozen long distance phone calls from the same number today. The person on the other end speaks Spanish only. I do not speak Spanish which is what I inform them and hang up. They keep calling. Maybe they are trying to teach me Spanish over the phone?

Next time they call, I'll see if we can meet in NY on the 14th. :)

The rewrite is in

Darn computers. Been having "issues" with my flea market laptop. Hard drive is going out so I tried to "clone" to a new/used drive. I have to dual boot XP/Linux. I'd dump XP if I could but there are 1 or 2 things I still can't do in Linux. It takes 5 minutes to boot XP. About a minute to boot Linux.

Anyways, cloning my HD failed. So I've been gone for a few days.

I saw a great political cartoon the other day. Can't remember who drew it or where it came from but it basically showed Bush walking from Air Force 1 to the General saying "Sorry it took me speech writers so long, here is your report". The Caption "The real reason why Bush was in Iraq".

It was my wife's birthday over the weekend. As she requested we did nothing. Originally, we were going out to dinner but we could not settle as to where. So as the day slipped by we finally settled on Curry Chicken at home.

The snails have all but stopped their insane sex activities. We wondered what the deal was. at first I thought they ran out of booze or smokes but that does not seem to be the issue. Than I figured all those free samples of Viagra I've collected over the years were being dropped into the fish bowl by my wife, ( for some reason she won't allow me to use the stuff ) but there still in the little pill bottle so that wasn't the case either.

Than on a whim I decided to check the water temps. Sure enough it had dropped from 82 degrees to 76 degrees. Which is obviously to cold for snail sex. Wow, who says you can't learn new stuff.

The drifters are on a diet. Told you about them asking for menus. Well we cut back on the feeding routine. Went from 4 times per day to 2. Now they eat all the food provider and not so picky.

I had bought some speakers at the local flea market a month or so ago. Upon hooking them up I discovered they were not very good and had issues. The seller agreed to refund the speakers.

Which he did yesterday. Than he turned around and sold them to another buyer. I found it interesting how he could so easily sell known defective items. Oh well buyer beware.

Another day...................

Out from under my rock

Any body seen the new Bin Laden video? Oh wait, were not allowed. Anyways from the news reports ol' Bin say's we Americans should join the Islamic faith.

Well at least he offers solutions. Maybe not the best, but much better than Mr. Bush's kiss my ass, and do what I say approach.

Last night we came to the decision we were over feeding the fish. I kinda figured it out when one of the drifters requested a menu. I didn't even know they could read.

See where Southwest Airlines wouldn't let the Hooter girl fly because of her revealing outfit? What is wrong with showing off what you got? Man Southwest use to be my favorite airline. I guess its time to shop for a new one. It wasn't that long back that airlines didn't have dress codes. Hell I learned female anatomy from a flight attendant on a trip from LA to Omaha!

Wow we have been having fun today. 1st, we're a land locked state but we are feeling the effects of a hurricane. Yesterday was interesting, we had a nice warm sunny day with flash flood warnings.

OK what is going on? Mr. "stay the course" President after talking with his advisors ( I didn't know there were any left ) on those advisors advise is going to stay the course in Iraq. Um, what was the reason for the big report we've all been holding our breaths for? And where did this set of advisors get recruited from? Wendy's, Burger King, or McDonalds?

Dang, our betta fish is a gimp! We just noticed that his left front fin isn't there. It is completely gone. Which reminds me of another question. Where do you get those little wheelchairs the frogs use after we eat their legs? Is there Medicaid/care for frogs or do they get stuck with the wheelchair bill?

I'm thinking a benefit concert may be in order. Get Willie and the boys to croon their hearts out for all those legless frogs in the world.

Paris Hilton announced she was going to have a baby by next year. Lets see, 12 months minus 9 months equals 3 months of uncontrolled wild sex to pick out the right father. If her grandfather really did disown her, how will she ever raise a child on the simple life?

Speaking of fish, we have now trained the drifters to come to us. It was pretty simple actually. Every time we walked up to the tank to feed them we would say "come" and they would swim right over. They are so well trained now we don't even say come anymore. My wife and I are Fish Whisperers. Interesting observation: Since we're not saying come so often the snails sex life has slowed to a snails pace.

I got my new speakers this morning. We spent most of the morning and part of the afternoon listening to old CD's like they were new CD's at a rather loud volume. No distortion. It was really really cool. We keep going "I never heard that before"

As I said, we are having fun today.

Hot women, and cold fish

Sorry I missed Monday, not much going on.

See this report " Men want hot women, study confirms " Who pays for this shit, and how would I get on the gravy train. How hard could this study been? question: Would you prefer a hot lathered up sex crazy woman, or a cold fish?

Come on really how many times have we all heard about stupid studies that Uncle Sam paid for? Do we really need to know all this stuff?

Oops, gotta run, I'll continue this in a bit..................

A room with a view part 2

What I want to see when I look out a window would be a meadow. Trees surround the meadow with a little brook running through the middle. I'd like to see the early morning frost of the fall glistening in the sun.

Winter should have low lying fog outlining the warmer waters of the brook. Gently rolling snow on the ground and tree branches bowing to the weight of fresh show.

Spring should be wildflowers and deer. Young fawns running and playing in the soft tall grasses.

Summer the grasses should give way to children playing in gentle summer breezes.

I want to see thunderstorms, lightning and rain. I want to feel the cold air of winter grasping at the warm house heated by the old stove. Hear the wind blow through the trees.

Damn, the snails are at it again!!

to be continued...........