7976|50I returned from my trip to LA to find aquaDRAMA in a state of craziness! Three fish are missing, I suspect this is what transpired:
The angler was occasionally stalking my goby. Well, goby is no where to be found and angler is very fat and happy!
Bette, my Longfin Fairy Wrasse, is MIA. She has disappeared and reappeared before, but this time I have a feeling there was some warfare between the wrasses and Bette lost!
The Blue Star Leopard Wrasse, Moses, didn’t acclimate well and given that these fish burry themselves in the sand, I imagine it died and is being eaten by the things that live in the sand.
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Everything else seems to be going very well! I even completed the reinstallation of the tank after moving. The only thing left is to tidy up the wires a bit inside the stand.
I recently bought another new red and black sea star and a couple larger gobies that should be harder to eat! I will post photos when I have them.
Josh sent me the link to the trailer for the upcoming film of Maurice Sendak’s amazing book. As I sat and watched the trailer, noticing James Gandolfini’s voice, tears were rolling down my cheek. I started to think about why and few things came to my mind, but for some reason the ending clip in this trailer of them all howling off the edge of the cliff really sent me over the edge.
A few things come to mind really fast, childhood wasn’t so easy for me, between divorces, adoption, avaricious step-mothers, floods, fires, and a lot of other bad things it can be hard to look back and think of those times as happy. Maybe I am just like other kids, I dont know.
I also start to think about life right now; it is complicated, lay-offs, downsizing, foreclosures, bad economic news, deaths in the family, stress, stress, and more stress. Remember how the worst thing in the world was being sent to you room and all you had to do was imagine your way out of it? Don’t you wish that is how you could solve some of your problems now?
My whole world view was set by this book:
when bored, put on a costume and dance around
when yelled at for making too much noise in step one, and forced into reality, dont be happy about it
when the reality is handed down simply close your eyes and imagine where you want to be
but be careful, when you get there, there are always unintended consequences
I am 25 pages into it, no real comments yet, a fast paced quick read that is more of a short story than a novel in my estimation. I hope to have some time to write a few comments when I am done reading, Check back in a month!
I heard the CEO of Starbucks talking about the “afordabiity myth” the other day. He went on and on about how he was working hard to explain his company’s product value. I found a note from him on their web site
…was frustrated by the persistent misperceptions about our value. He was urging the company to be more aggressive in responding to the mythical claims..
Here is a claim that isn’t mythical: a double espresso (yes, there is no X in espresso) 2 years ago was 1.94$ and now it is 2.28$ that is an 18% increase.
When I make espresso at home, even if I average out the cost of my machine over 2 years, account for coffee, including shipping, ad in a little for water, I am only at about 80 cents.
A few week ago my life took one of those odd turns that makes a man realize that we are all just players in a game orchestrated by something larger. It is has often been said of me that I am lucky not only because I am lucky, but because I know I am lucky. This is another case of noticing when something really wonderful just seems to happen.
I met an interesting recent transplant quite by random who has turned out to be a lot of fun. Dinner here and there, late nights talking, getting to know each other, being reading geeks, and all kinds of other fun things have brought a smile to my face that has been missing for a while. He is simply adorable and very sweet.
I am not going to get too deep on you, I just wanted to put it out there: “gee I am lucky.”
It is as if for my birthday I was reborn! With in a week I moved, job prospects solidified, and I met a nice guy. Now all I need to do is get my butt to Maine to get Ellie back and I am a country western song in reverse!
I was recently quoted as saying this to a friend when talking about a relationship of his, “Ugh, Get Your Love Off Of Me!” It sums up how I generally feel right now about relationships, marriage, and any kind of other long term “forever” hallucination people operate under.
Not being completely ready to join the priesthood – besides that I am Jewish – I am thinking of the things that important to me in the next go’round of this crazy game of love.
It is important to note that this list is about general center of the road characteristics and nothing is ever so rigid as to be taken literally and demonstratively.
There are the basics: have a college education, live on your own, have good credit, have a career or some drive towards something. This essentially means that I welcome a life long Peace Corp’s volunteer, because while not a traditional career, certainly shows drive and dedication to something tangible. I also realize that it may mean, as a volunteer, you are not in the same position as other people my age. Read the rest of this entry »
So it has been a long time since I wrote regularly on this thing. I have no singular excuse, but a combination of a few. I thought it was about time to just post a general update to what has been going on in the last 4-5 months. A quick list:
I sold my first home and bought a new one. Still in Hoboken, but much nicer. Once it is all together I will post photos and more information. It is a green building, with a LEED certification. The process of selling, moving, and resetting up your home is a grueling and I will not be doing this again. The fish tank alone was 2.5 days of work and I lost more than a few of the poor little guys. Read the rest of this entry »
In all the fur flying all over the place over Gaza I notices this one talkback from an article on YNet about the death of an IDF soldier.
17. the my arab friends
being that you are 1000 years behind the times,i find it interesting that you believe everything your on FREE press prints.i have seen the way you live in this country.20 families to 1 house,no jobs,honour killings,yet you never miss a chance to protest any act committed against YOUR people.why not protest against shite violence in Iraq?Sudan?or in any part of africa?what have you done as a people to advance human rights?oh ya i know stoning woman to death.and some of your best exports,suicide bombings,the taliban,al qaeda,homophobia and my favorite female gentialia mutilation.clean up ypur on back yard,remove the berka from your eyes and realize all the problems in the world are because of you.
Alon , toronto,canada (01.08.09)
I would like to express my disgust and dismay at the choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration.
As a Jew, I am always very uncomfortable with the encroachment of dominant Christian forces into the public sphere, not only because it is anti-American, but because the tendency is for Christians of the ilk of Warren to want to limit my ability to express my religious beliefs. As a Jew I do not hold the same beliefs on abortion, polygamy, or other Warren touchstones.
As an American who voted for you, I am concerned that your pragmatism, which I respect, has bled into pandering with this choice. Is this the change we were expecting? It is not feeling exactly like change, more like status quo with a good marketing campaign.
As a gay man, I am offended that Rick Warren equates me and all my fellow gays glibly with pedophiles and perverts. I happen to be a hard working, tax paying, G-d fearing, red blooded, home owning, charity giving, give-a-seat-up-for-the-old-lady-on-the-bus American. Warren and his ilk take the words of Jesus, some of the most profound ever recorded, which extol nothing but inclusion and somehow manipulate them into a tool for divisiveness. I sometimes wonder if Warren and his ilk have read the same Gospels I have.
Do you want to bring us together or pander to hate?
You and your team are smart educated women and men, this however is a mistake and smart people admit when they are wrong and move on. That kind of stand-up fortitude is the change I had hoped for.
7635Once again my Ducati dropped dead while out driving around. I was on my way to Max’s house to store it while I move. In the 139 tunnel that leads from downtown Jersey City to the Pulaski Skyway my bike stalled and refused to start. I was nearly hit by several cars until a large truck stopped and blocked traffic for me. I pushed the bike to the traffic circle at Tonnele Ave. Then Progressive couldn’t find a town truck for me. After several hours I am back home, alive, with a slightly scratched bike.
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