Fishy appears to be recovering.
Fishy appears to be recovering. He ate all of his food and is acting more normal again. Betta pellets, the miracle food…..
Fishy appears to be recovering. He ate all of his food and is acting more normal again. Betta pellets, the miracle food…..
A great weekend. Perfect weather, low 70’s and sunny.
Friday was a bit stressful. Since I got the letter from code enforcement I have until this coming Saturday to get my Buick either in my garage or off my property. 2 guys in the Tampa area were interested in it. The one I know, and has helped me out multiple times with Buick questions. The other guy knows this guy and lives a couple miles from him. This guy seemed to be a bit of a double talker and wanted to give me one dollar amount if the title comes back as salvage another price if it comes back as clean. The guy I already know didn’t care and offered the same money as the other guy’s non-salvage title price. So I am selling it to him. He is supposed to be down Friday to pick it up, right before the deadline. It will be nice to have it all behind me, I’ve had quite enough of looking at my car’s dead carcass everyday. 🙁
Saturday morning I went to fly my RC planes with Mike. Great flying weather, some 20 degrees warmer than the previous Saturday morning. We had good flights until Mike had a control issue and wound up crashing his 600 dollar RC helicopter upside down. It was a pretty nasty crash as the blades shattered and various parts were bent or sheared. It is repairable but will just take some TLC and a few parts.
On the way home I heard the radio news flash about the shuttle. I was in disbelief. I remember how I felt when Challenger exploded. I got home and flipped on CNN. The constant video loop was playing where you see the remains of the shuttle streaking through the sky like a comet. The pictures of debris on the ground were coming in. Surreal. I don’t think this had quite the impact of the Challenger explosion because first it has happened before and second we didn’t have such graphic documentation of the explosion happening as we did with the Challenger. Regardless it is a tragic event and it will be quite interesting to see how this impacts the Shuttle Program. I certainly hope it doesn’t turn out that the debris that hit the shuttle during launch was not a factor in this. Space travel is inherently dangerous and incidents like this are painful reminders of that constant chance of disaster.
Saturday night we watched Signs. Similar to UNBREAKABLE, the movie was quite good but then started to come loose around the edges at the end. Poor Mel is looking his age. A good acting performance by the entire cast.
Sunday was a laid back day except in the afternoon we decided to hit Home Depot to get the materials we need to get our rain barrels set up. We broke down and finally picked up a compound mitre saw while we were there. It is fantastic to work with, effortless, perfectly square cuts. So much better than trying to eye it up with a circular saw. A purchase well worth the price, it will see heavy use over the years. We got the hardware mounted on the barrels and I had the big stand almost completed before we ran out of daylight.
We made a vow to get to the beach next weekend if the weather is good. Hard to believe we live so close but I’ve not seen the beach in at least 2 months. Inexcuseable.
Fishy ate! He seemed to not just be digging the bloodworms I used to feed him. On a whim I dug out a small sample bag of tiny Betta pellets. He seemed to like them. First time I saw him eat all week. There may be hope yet.
Got home last night and found a pretty piece of paper jammed in my door. The nice folks at code enforcement have given me a week to get the burned out Buick off the property or into my garage. If I don’t it is a $250 fine. Great….. I am hoping I have a buyer for it. He may be able to get it tomorrow. If not, I have to get a flatbed out here to load it up and dump it in my garage. Pain in the ass.
This weekend will be busy, we are rounding stuff up for a yardsale we are gonna have in a couple weeks. I have a bunch of little things around the house I need to get done. It seems the only time I get all the stuff done I want to during a weekend is if I write it out in a list. Otherwise I get sidetracked and/or forget about it. I guess there is something to the idea of writing out things…. motivates me to do it, to conquer the list……
Anyone see Russ on the Bacheloreete the other night? He looked like he was gonna crap his pants during the rose ceremony. Tip to Russ, chicks don’t dig guys that are desparate to be with them.
I got my settlement check for the Buick yesterday. It took a little less than a month so that isn’t too bad. I’m going to use the settlement to pay off some short term debt. We should come out of it in a much more favorable financial situation so at least that is something to be upbeat about.
Still feeling a bit off. Whenever I get this way it is normally a result of me dwelling on or thinking about things that only depress me. It comes and goes. I wish it would go.
Fishy is still not eating and being very lethargic. I’m sad to say I don’t think he is going to pull out of it.
I want to be a good citizen. I am interested in what the Prez has to say, but that State of the Union address is the most frustrating thing to watch. The applause after every other sentence is maddening. I don’t understand why he cannot simply make his address and then let congress applaud afterward. It really is distracting and makes it difficult to take in what he is saying. As expected I agreed with some of his ideas and disagreed with more. I was surprised he endorsed the idea of gasless automobiles, his oil buddies can’t be happy. I am glad he is determined to get rid of Saddam. That should have been done in 91. It was so funny watching the gratuitous shots of the audience. The close up of the ancient couple when George was talkin about health care for seniors. The close ups on Hilary and Lieberman when Bush was talking about the economy. They were golf clapping as they made sarcastic remarks to each other (you could tell) I hope his economic recovery plan actually works, but I am afraid all it is going to do is make the rich, richer and bury the US in tremendous debt. Sounds like the war starts in February, for sure…..
Homey hooked me up with some hosting space to offload my videos that I have on my site for RC stuff and vball. Big thanks to him!
Jon Carl’s site has been updated!
Down to 3 chicks in Joe Millionaire. He got rid of the ultra-conceited one last night. No loss
Tonight you get to see more bad singers on American Idol. Followed by the state of the union address. I’m sure the pres will be laying on the rah rah war talk heavy. Just get it over and kill the bastard. I can’t believe we haven’t done so long before now. I wonder how Dubya is gonna talk up the economy? It has fallen off the table since he took control and it looks like his plans will basically bury us in deficit spending again. Great plan George.
Great weather today. 70 and sunny.
Fishy is not looking good. Lethargic but has these fits where he dashes around the tank. I looked it up and got a few ideas and some advice. I just treated the tank with Aquari-sol. I hope he comes around, kinda attached to the little guy.
A fun weekend. Ali’s dad’s cousin was down to see us Friday through Sunday morning. Hmmm what relation does that make him? Dunno. We went to dinner twice and had a good time. Ali and he went to an art/craft show while I flew planes Saturday morning. Brrr it was cold Sat morning, in the 30’s again.
Mike and I flew our planes. I met him at a school near his place to fly. It was breezy so it was less than ideal flying conditions for my plane but I flew it anyway. I had a couple near misses but was able to keep it in one piece. Mike had his copter and the SIG that I gave him. The SIG was a gas plane that I did alot of work on but decided to give to Mike at the end because I decided I would rather get into electric planes. It was the first time I saw it fly since Mike finished it. Boy is it big. It handled the wind well but was rather slow and unexciting in the air. Neat to see though.
SEASON is here in full force. We waited almost a full 90 minutes until we got into Carraba’s on Friday and another 45 minutes on Saturday at Watermark. Wall to wall senior citizens. Oh well we passed the time drinking.
Sunday was a PERFECT day weatherwise. Almost 70 and bright sunshine. SOOOOOOO nice. I flew my plane 6 or 7 times. Much better conditions. I flew it inverted for a few secs and was up soaring with the vultures. The rest of the day was spent doing various things, nothing too stressful, waiting for the Super Bowl to start.
The Super Bowl was just ok. Of course I wanted the Raiders to win to avenge my Eagles loss. Sadly, the Raiders got blown out as well. I was really surprised to see Oakland perform so poorly. As in most Super Bowls, the most interesting parts were outside the game. My thoughts:
What is with all the musical performances? Yea a halftime show is fine but do we need mini concerts BEFORE and AFTER the game? Celene did a fantastic rendition of God Bless America and the Dixie Chicks did a surprisingly good rendition of the National Anthem. Too bad they mistimed the flyover of the jets.
At halftime, Shania had on a revealing oufit that showed off her tight bod but she decided to lip sync?? Why? Sting and Gwen Stefani belted it out live, why couldn’t Shania? Sting looks good for his age still. Sounded good too.
I’m really Bon Jovi’d out. He seems to pop up everywhere nowadays. Thought the post game mini-concert was the dumbest musical idea of the 3. Just hand out the trophy, game’s over.
The commercials were quite good I thought. Some of my favorites were the horse instant replay, the beer butt drinker, the Osbournes, the Reebok linebacker in the office and the Jordan commercial.
I read reviews that criticized the Jordan spot. Evidently they worked on the commercial 5 months and the critics thought the final product should have been better. I thought the computer generated images were strikingly good. I thought the idea of Jordan playing himself 15 years ago was very intriguing. I think it strikes a chord with me because of my fixation on ideas about growing old. I can identify with the emotional dilemma of the mind remembering what you could do at one time but can no longer do. The commercial just further confirmed my dismay about growing older. So why did I like it? Maybe like was the wrong word, it just hit some feelings inside.
I enjoyed seeing the movie previews. Matrix and T3 are definite see’s for me in the theater, the others will likely be home movie expereinces. The superhero movies are coming hot and heavy. I’m sure I’ll enjoy them.
Here is a creative little animation. Check it out.