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gwydion* Wildly corrupt Florida Republican Congressman is under investigation for criminal conspiracy for funding a fake candidate to run against him:
* "Gloria Steinem-Transphobe:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/09/gloria-steinem-transphobe.html
* "Sex sex and more sex:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2012/09/sex-sex-and-more-sex.html
* "The Body on Somerton Beach:" http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/the-body-on-somerton-beach/
* The car repairs being free is a good thing as I had reserved money for if it was something more expensive, and that takes so much of the stress out of the swap box issue. Why am I talking about this today? My Hot drink box came back light. This is unusual, as BPAL people as a group are above average generous and tend to put back in more than they take. I chalk this up to the coffee being bulky and apparently extremely popular, as very little of it came back. Also, the hot chocolate was flat out gone. I am frankly super happy that 3/4 of the coffee went as I have zero use or interest in it. So now I'm sitting on a Mummer swap to mail Monday, plus I need to finish stocking the chocolate box, and now need a restock on the Hot Drink Swap box. Most of the tea that returned was green so I need to flesh that out with black, rooibos, and herbals; and pick up a little more hot chocolate. Normally, I'd toss in some white, but I'm not parting with my personal supply and white is expensive and a whole other trip to a different part of town. Sigh. The Chocolate Box slots completely filled over night. Talk about popular. all this happening at once meant cloning and updating the Drink Swap to a new thread, closing out the old one, and getting the Sweet Swap ready to trade. This is the stressful and time consuming bit. Once the boxes are gone, it's all low key monitoring.
* As a result, I forgot to eat until 9:30 PM. I cooked and ate the first half of my dinner, took my meds, and poured some cereal and cocoanut milk. (Look, don't judge. Cereal's fine for the first meal of the day. The more dinnery bit was small and I was still hungry). I'd eaten a few bites when I remembered I forgotten to feed the fish. It was at this ;point I discovered the tank I'd topped off was low and there was a huge crack that had developed overnight.
If you do not own fish, it may not be obvious how catastrophic this is. It could have been so much worse though. It was the ten, which only had two otos for the purpose of cycling, and is the smallest tank not counting a beta tank. I got a waste water bucket, a big bailing up, an espresso cup I occasionally use as a shot glass (clear glaass, handle, small. All of these qualities are a help if you are catching otos. Otos are, tiny, fast, and coloured to match the aquarium dirt.), and two empty beta tanks. The cats helped by trying to trip and therefore kill me. As the tank water had initially been partially drawn from some other tanks to help with cycling, I could move the plants into two of those tanks with zero drama. I then pulled and inspected the hides in case they had otos. (They did not). I autoclaved the bog log and dumped the filter and hides in the sink for later. The heater was no longer in good shape so I tossed it. I bailed the water into the beta tanks and slop bucket, caught and transferred the otos into the long twenty. (I was planning to buy that tank a few otos next month anyway). I then started a batch of dirt to autoclave. After all, aquarium dirt costs money. I'm thinking of using it to top up dirt in tanks that's been lost over time. Then there was the issue of the things being stored under the tank bench. I mopped up the spill on the bench top, pulled out the stored sewing stuff, and set towels to sop up the water on the carpet. The plastic sewing box was safe. Obviously. Not so the box of thread, zippers, and patterns. All my patterns. The cardboard was completely sodden as were the zippers and half the patterns. I sorted stuff and set things to dry. I'll see what's salvageable tomorrow. The beta tanks are in the spot the ten was. I had no real room for a beta array here. I guess now I do. *facepalm* The cereal was an inedible glop and it ate the whole rest of my evening. I'll have to put in another couple of hours later, as the kitchen isn't usable until I've got the fish stuff dealt with. I've got fans going to try to dry out my gear and the carpet.
I so did not need this four days to inspection. My hands are still shaking from effort and adrenaline.
* I forgot to mention an unusual poll I got yesterday. It was three questions only. Once gave me a choice of gubernatorial candidates, which is understandable given how heated and important or governor's race is. (I started getting polled on this as far back as last March which is ages in State politics time). I picked Inslee as the opponent is horrifying. The second question was do I vote all Democrat or Republican or a mix. Standard stuff, right?
The third question was the really interesting one. It was open ended which is very rare indeed: "How do you decide who to vote for?" "I'm bad at names, so I take my ballot over to the computer and look every body up to see what their positions are." There was a second of stunned silence and she said something about that being a good way to do it and me being a good citizen. She then thanked me for my time and hung up.
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* "Gloria Steinem-Transphobe:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/09/gloria-steinem-transphobe.html
* "Sex sex and more sex:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2012/09/sex-sex-and-more-sex.html
* "The Body on Somerton Beach:" http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/the-body-on-somerton-beach/
* The car repairs being free is a good thing as I had reserved money for if it was something more expensive, and that takes so much of the stress out of the swap box issue. Why am I talking about this today? My Hot drink box came back light. This is unusual, as BPAL people as a group are above average generous and tend to put back in more than they take. I chalk this up to the coffee being bulky and apparently extremely popular, as very little of it came back. Also, the hot chocolate was flat out gone. I am frankly super happy that 3/4 of the coffee went as I have zero use or interest in it. So now I'm sitting on a Mummer swap to mail Monday, plus I need to finish stocking the chocolate box, and now need a restock on the Hot Drink Swap box. Most of the tea that returned was green so I need to flesh that out with black, rooibos, and herbals; and pick up a little more hot chocolate. Normally, I'd toss in some white, but I'm not parting with my personal supply and white is expensive and a whole other trip to a different part of town. Sigh. The Chocolate Box slots completely filled over night. Talk about popular. all this happening at once meant cloning and updating the Drink Swap to a new thread, closing out the old one, and getting the Sweet Swap ready to trade. This is the stressful and time consuming bit. Once the boxes are gone, it's all low key monitoring.
* As a result, I forgot to eat until 9:30 PM. I cooked and ate the first half of my dinner, took my meds, and poured some cereal and cocoanut milk. (Look, don't judge. Cereal's fine for the first meal of the day. The more dinnery bit was small and I was still hungry). I'd eaten a few bites when I remembered I forgotten to feed the fish. It was at this ;point I discovered the tank I'd topped off was low and there was a huge crack that had developed overnight.
If you do not own fish, it may not be obvious how catastrophic this is. It could have been so much worse though. It was the ten, which only had two otos for the purpose of cycling, and is the smallest tank not counting a beta tank. I got a waste water bucket, a big bailing up, an espresso cup I occasionally use as a shot glass (clear glaass, handle, small. All of these qualities are a help if you are catching otos. Otos are, tiny, fast, and coloured to match the aquarium dirt.), and two empty beta tanks. The cats helped by trying to trip and therefore kill me. As the tank water had initially been partially drawn from some other tanks to help with cycling, I could move the plants into two of those tanks with zero drama. I then pulled and inspected the hides in case they had otos. (They did not). I autoclaved the bog log and dumped the filter and hides in the sink for later. The heater was no longer in good shape so I tossed it. I bailed the water into the beta tanks and slop bucket, caught and transferred the otos into the long twenty. (I was planning to buy that tank a few otos next month anyway). I then started a batch of dirt to autoclave. After all, aquarium dirt costs money. I'm thinking of using it to top up dirt in tanks that's been lost over time. Then there was the issue of the things being stored under the tank bench. I mopped up the spill on the bench top, pulled out the stored sewing stuff, and set towels to sop up the water on the carpet. The plastic sewing box was safe. Obviously. Not so the box of thread, zippers, and patterns. All my patterns. The cardboard was completely sodden as were the zippers and half the patterns. I sorted stuff and set things to dry. I'll see what's salvageable tomorrow. The beta tanks are in the spot the ten was. I had no real room for a beta array here. I guess now I do. *facepalm* The cereal was an inedible glop and it ate the whole rest of my evening. I'll have to put in another couple of hours later, as the kitchen isn't usable until I've got the fish stuff dealt with. I've got fans going to try to dry out my gear and the carpet.
I so did not need this four days to inspection. My hands are still shaking from effort and adrenaline.
* I forgot to mention an unusual poll I got yesterday. It was three questions only. Once gave me a choice of gubernatorial candidates, which is understandable given how heated and important or governor's race is. (I started getting polled on this as far back as last March which is ages in State politics time). I picked Inslee as the opponent is horrifying. The second question was do I vote all Democrat or Republican or a mix. Standard stuff, right?
The third question was the really interesting one. It was open ended which is very rare indeed: "How do you decide who to vote for?" "I'm bad at names, so I take my ballot over to the computer and look every body up to see what their positions are." There was a second of stunned silence and she said something about that being a good way to do it and me being a good citizen. She then thanked me for my time and hung up.