Triops a no go

Well just a follow on to the Triops experiment. They were a no-show. I never saw any hatch out and so finally today I rinsed out the tank and set it up for some fish fry I hope to have soon….
Somewhere along the way waiting for them I kind of lost interest so I am going to let them drop.

Triops

Yep - yet another aquatic thing to try. Someone mentioned Triops on the GSAS alias and I figured what the hey - sounds interesting - I poked around on the web and found some more info on them. They are a slightly horseshoe crab like thing that has 3 eyes and grows to about 2 inches. Their native environment are ponds which go dry so they are a bit like killifishes and such like. They have short lives and their eggs expect to go through a dry period before hatching when the pond fills up again.

So I went down to “Science Art and More” a great place to buy misc. toys, glassware and such. I get long glass “eye” droppers there to feed and dose tanks plus grandkid presents…. I found some triops eggs in a cute little kit. It included some dried pond muck (aka - nutrient material) and the eggs. I set up a small tank and put them in a glass dish in its water to soak yesterday. Didn’t see anything today.

More later!

Don't run in Holey Socks

So the exercise kick is on and I hit the gym early with the thought to start training for the Danskin Triathlon My worry about Triathlons has always been the running leg so I figured I should see if I can get to a point where I can run the distance. Hopefully before the drop dead date for registration I can at least decide whether or not my body will put up with the run leg.
Anyway 10 minutes in to the treadmill workout - a 3.6mph walking pace with a minute of 5mph jogs now and then - I realized that the socks I had put on where the ones with a hole in the left heal. So now I have a hole in my left heal with a cushy band aid over it. Sigh…. I did manage a little over a mile and a little over 17 minutes on the treadmill.

It's the end of the world as we know it....

Wooooeeey it is wet out there - Snow started on Saturday afternoon and then turned to rain that night and it has been coming down in buckets ever since then. I got to work and half the parking lot was flooded. I parked on the edge of one of the lakes and am hoping the car is not knee deep when I leave tonight!
Sinan stayed home today. he is much better but still not back to normal. I would like to be at home with a hot cup of coffee and a good book!