Winning the Lottery

I wish.... 

I guess if I really wanted to win the lottery I would actually have to play it but hey with the odds being what they are maybe it is just as well I rarely indulge. Today though I was quite tempted. It was one of those days when just about anything would have been better than what I was doing. Not quite everything was going wrong but I am sure the other shoe will drop tomorrow.....

Ah well, the paychecks still don't bounce....

Grook of the Day: The Eternal Twins

The Eternal Twins
Taking fun
as simply fun
and earnestness
in earnest
shows how thoroughly
thou none
of the two
discernest.
-Piet Hein

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.