Grook of the Day: Omniscience

Omniscience
Knowing what
thou knowest not
is in a sense
omniscience.
-Piet Hein

Ravena Varsity Cafe

Thanks for the burned banana nut pancakes and the ridiculously slow service. A tip: if your gonna take forever to get the food out, at least refill the coffee cups. Another tip: turning the burnt side down does not make over-crisped pancakes taste better.

Hopefully the next time we choose the Ravena Varsity Cafe for breakfast it will be back up to it's normal uninspired but edible standard.

Grook of the Day: Missing Link

Missing Link
Man's a kind
of Missing Link.
Fondly thinking
he can think.
-Piet Hein

Sunday Morning

I had hoped to get a decent sleep last night but unfortunately spent the night in a bizarre dream loosely based on some weird television (probably) and the Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey.... Lots of death and destruction. Maybe not so much red wine before bed perhaps??

Anyway my morning started way too early after that when Sinan decided he was going to get up and rearrange his desk and computer and play his music - all before 7:00AM. Needless to say I was not a happy camper when I tossed the pillow off my head and got up. I still have not gotten a better mood really. Maybe I will take off to a garden store and see if that cheers me up.

Discus Fry

Wow! My discus have gone from emaciated (see 2D Discus) to the proud parents of ooodles of baby discus! They had been laying eggs for a little while and even hatching them out but they are in a community tank and I suspect the Bolivian rams where getting the fry. So I sold all the Bolivian Rams at the GSAS auction in mid April and sure enough the next batch of eggs hatched out and the fry survived. I took out the third discus so now that tank has the discus parents and babies, lots of plecos (too many actually), corries, and cardinal tetras. The fry are happily slurping up the slime on the parents and the parents are doing a great job protecting them from all.

What's with the weather?

OK we took the long drive back from Whistler today leaving the snow behind us - or so we thought! Turns out there was snow everywhere from Vancouver to Seattle..... This has been one strange year.

We got home fine despite the strange weather. Stopped in Vancouver at several bookstores and picked up a couple more batches of paperbacks to add to the collection.

The birds and fish are all fine of course and I found that the Discus have free swimming fry! I had taken out all the rams from that tank and put some slate in and I noticed they laid eggs before we left for the ski trip. They seem to be holding their own even though there are a number of corrys and bristle nose plecos in there with them. I took out the third discus to give them a little more chance at making it. So far the parents are doing a great job. They sure have come a ways since their emaciated discus days.

Looking out at Whistler Snow

Sitting here in the local free wireless coffee place at Whistler futzing with the blog and reading email. Thanks to the folks at Blenz for letting us sit here snarfing wireless and electricity and not coincidentally drink coffee and eat carrot cake.... Outside it has been snowing off and on and the webcam up top shows lots of new snow. Sinan and I are way to knackered to go out again today though. Jocelyn and Nick should have a great time in the new snow tomorrow.