by CJ | Sep 4, 2014 | Journal
And Seishi is feeling better. Still not asking him to eat regular food, but he’s certainly not seeming out of sorts.
by CJ | Sep 4, 2014 | Journal
And Seishi is feeling better. Still not asking him to eat regular food, but he’s certainly not seeming out of sorts.
by CJ | Sep 3, 2014 | Journal
Diagnosis: tonsilitis. Why, except it’s allergy season, I have no idea. But I could tell the point at which he starts to gag on kibble is pretty well the point at which the food reaches the back of his jaw. So they x-rayed him for stray string or sewing...
by CJ | Sep 1, 2014 | Journal
…except helping Jane with the drapes. Which she’s freehanding. WHich are going to look good. Headed out for free birthday steak at the Swinging Door. Maybe dessert. 😉
by CJ | Sep 1, 2014 | Journal
…except helping Jane with the drapes. Which she’s freehanding. WHich are going to look good. Headed out for free birthday steak at the Swinging Door. Maybe dessert. 😉
by CJ | Aug 30, 2014 | Journal
Seishi had a real 24 hour bout with nausea. This being (of course) Saturday we had to hale him forthwith into the vet’s before closing (at noon) and get him checked out. They think it’s just hairballs, and just shot him full of kitteh Exlax and fluids and...
by CJ | Aug 29, 2014 | Journal
Hands can get quite sore coping with shears and vines and bushes. Got this lovely little Mantis grass and shrub trimmer, qv, which powers up a battery, then handily uses a back and forth action to make good cuts on branches up to a quarter inch. Oh, have we got work...
by CJ | Aug 28, 2014 | Journal
The linkAnd melting the ice over it. It comes down to ‘nobody knows what will happen.’ But it is now pretty well officially erupting.
by CJ | Aug 27, 2014 | Journal
After the rock setup, under actinics only: This is how the tank is for an hour before main lights come on and an hour after they go off: this is actinic (blue) light, which is high-energy light that penetrates deep. The fish have headed for their nooks in the...
by CJ | Aug 26, 2014 | Journal
Thing’s taller than I am. 105 gallons. Dream tank of a lifetime—but boy! has it been a bear to get set up! I think we are finally where we should have been last year at this time!
by CJ | Aug 26, 2014 | Journal
The ocean’s chemistry is really pretty simple: it eats rocks. It supports organisms that, from microcellular up, eat the dissolved rock and eat light of a favored spectrum, which energizes their little cell-parts and makes the eating re-constitute into shells,...
by CJ | Aug 25, 2014 | Journal
…working on outline, which is not your A, B, C sort of outline, but a ragtag set of ‘this scene’, coupled with ‘things that need to be explained’ and ‘things that need to happen’ and ‘people in the scene’ so I can...
