It is Done

Yesterday, while the kids were at school and the wife at jury duty, I performed the euthanasia on the fish. It was a terribly painful experience that I don’t want to go through again. I’ve euthanized a single dying fish before, but never anything on this massive a scale. I’m… Continue reading

More Fishy Business

An hour or so after posting yesterday, I discovered more camallanus worms in second-generation mollies. This time, more than one worm in the same fish. This is devastating because it marks one more time that I thought the problem resolved only to learn it isn’t. The elimination of the problem… Continue reading

Fish Story

In the seemingly never-ending saga of my battle against the dreaded camallanus worm nematodes infesting my tropical fish, the story continues. Thanks to a certain big-box pet store located near my home, I imported this “aquarist’s worst nightmare” along with some black mollies I purchased back in March of this… Continue reading

Standing Up for Liberty

One member of Congress, libertarian Republican Texas Representative Ron Paul, takes a stand. He introduced a bill to remove government immunity from TSA officers to disallow any activity that non-government personnel cannot do. It would allow for TSA gropers to be arrested for assault. Watch his passion in this video… Continue reading

Some Things Never Change

It seems some things never change. Persons in a position of power still take advantage of people whom they are in a position to help. What I’m talking about here is based upon what Jim Hines called to my attention via his Live Journal entry about some very inexcusable behavior… Continue reading

Down for the Count

Yup, I have missed a good week since the last post. A week ago Friday, I woke up with a fever that had to be around 105F, accompanied with a headache that felt like having a hatchet buried in my skull. That weekend, I was capable of little other than… Continue reading

China Miéville wants you to know that he does not have a Facebook account.

I really have a problem with a social media outlet that does NOTHING to verify accounts of persons with recognizable names. Twitter can verify accounts, and I know they do because I follow Bill Cosby, Tom Bodette, Kurt Warner, Aaron Rogers, and Larry Fitzgerald. Each of them has a small… Continue reading

Sick of Campaign Calls? Let’s Do Something About It

I have had 8 (!) telephone calls soliciting my vote in the past hour. I don’t want to hear from these slimeballs. They are harassing me and every other voter in this state. Since politicans are unable and unwilling to regulate themselves, here is my proposal for a ballot proposition… Continue reading

Not a Pretty Loss

Ok, so we all know that Kurt Warner took the Cardinals franchise into retirement with him, but this is a team that should be playing better than this. This is the same defense that beat the Minnesota Vikings last year. It’s also the defense that couldn’t stop a scoring drive… Continue reading

Nano Planted Tank

For quite some time, we have been trying to figure out what to do with my son’s betta fish for winter. The small tank he had been in cannot hold a heater, which isn’t a problem in the summer but in the winter would be a killer. I had a… Continue reading