What are you doing today?

[Oldspartan]

Today I will hang out for the cable guy. Spectrum sent new equipment, and I am too electronically illiterate to play with it unless I want to spend some frustrated hours doing so. I do not. In honor of the occasion, and to take advantage of the one for all service call, (65.00), I also went out last night and bought a new windows 11 computer with 16 GB Ram, 1 TB of storage, and a Ryzen 7 processor. I understand the RAM and storage, but the other flock of specs are beyond my willingness to learn. I simply gave the computer guy a list of what I expected from the machine, and he gave me the system with a reasonable, in my mind, bill. The system is an old fashion desktop, just like me. My current junk is several years old and with WIN 10 being discontinued it was time to replace.

Will be spending the next hour disconnecting existing stuff so the cable person has a clean slate to work from. I was in the shop from 4 to 8 AM building a new piece for the audio/video system to make the work easier for the tech as well as to "clean up" my area.

Linda went to the doc for a second update on her shoulder surgery. They will do an XRay to check the healing process, and I expect to grab a few more bucks. So far, our share of the bills is about 1200 dollars and that does not include the co-insurance that I expect from the surgeon, likely a few hundred more, or the anesthesiologist, likely another 3 hundred. We budgeted 1,500 for her surgery and it will likely exceed that by anywhere from 500 to 700 bucks. That is a heavy load but pales in relation to the total cost and a relatively small part of the total paid by the insurance people. We are VERY fortunate to be able to pay these charges without ruining our lifestyle. We will forgo a 4 day trip we had planned for July and that will make us whole, I think. Life will go on.

Water changes today on the fry tank and the rainbow tank.

 

[MattW]

Came home to find my 60L tank at 29.8c I usually have this tank set to 22-23c. Might have to bring out the icecubes , UK humidity ain't helping either

 

[Essjay]

It'll be back down to bearable on Sunday - though if the predicted thunderstorms happen tomorrow afternoon, the humidity will be through the roof

The blue coloured thing in the Galileo thermometer in the lounge has dropped today for the first time since we got it (birthday present for my husband from his brother in February)

 

[Lanpenn]

I am thinking about buying a water bottle for my gym training, but with my own design. This simple thing below was made with a photo of my Betta (and Adobe Photoshop).

Original photo:

The design (the edges from his caudal and anal fins are weird, are they not?):

MattW, here we are receiving cold waves. Obviously, cold for Brazilian standards. The next wave should arrive here on Tuesday, 24th. I had to put a 100W heater for my small bucket of brine shrimp culture in our "backyard" (less than 20 liters!), just to avoid temperatures below 20 ºC. I do not know how a 50W heater could not maintain the temperature from 25 to 28 ºC for the shrimp.

 

[Oldspartan]

94F here at 3PM -- high humidity. Unbearable outside. We puttered outside until 10AM and I did a big pond flush to lower the temp of the water for the golds. About 10 the humidity started to get to us so into the pond house we went for a game of Scrabble. We play one game of it most every day and keep an overall score -- Me 65 Linda 62 for the year but Linda is on a 5-game win streak.

The pond house became too hot to enjoy by 1PM. Spent the rest of the day in AC.

I had a Timber Toss game delivered. It is a wood pin game -- knock them down by throwing a dowel underhand at the pins. It will be a fun way for Linda to exercise her repaired arm. The dowel is light, and I will shorten the playing field. I doubt we will be using it for a few days. We have triple digit temps and heavy humidity in the forecast. Today thru Wednesday will be very unpleasant.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Removed a few invasives from a local pond. Occasionally, bow hunting is directly beneficial to the environment.

 

[gwand]

I’m heading off to the monthly meeting of the Aquarists of Central Maryland. It is a buy or swap meeting today. I have 7 a. thomasi juveniles I would like to give away.

 

[jaylach]

Having one of my normal mellow days and watching baseball. But I'm also looking at my electronics wall and trying to decide if I need another couple of photos as a couple of places just look empty. I'm talking about the space to the right of the larger screen and the very left above the smaller screen. The empty spaces just bother me a bit.

Any opinions? Leave as is or fill the spaces?

 

[Fishmanic]

I think it looks fine as is. The display is very symmetrical and adding more pictures would be excessive imho. It’s good to have some white space.

 

[MattW]

I was gonna suggest maybe putting a corner shelf with a hanging plant like pothos. But @Fishmanic is right, you need whitespace on a wall

 

[gwand]

What is happening with the 20 gallon high tank you were working on?

 

[JuiceBox52]

Long weekend visiting kids in the hospital, spending time in the hospital with my two good friends, during their brain infusions, and then another parade! Quality time with my other rare disease friends is so important to me, especially the ones who are terminal like this weekend.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Way to go, Juice!

 

[GaryE]

We had our end of year fish club meeting last night, as we meet from September to June with the summer off. This is our 3rd year as a face to face, genuine humans in the room club, after about 10 years as a Facebook, "I've never seen that person" club. The first two years, we didn't make the season, with 4 meetings, then 5. This year, we had consistent attendance even with a rough (for us) winter. I see that as an accomplishment.
We found a free venue, but all it really took was two people working to make it happen. We now have 20 regulars, a fun auction and a community to talk fish and plants with. A bunch of introverted fish nerds have found a home.
At the first meeting, a guy came along to keep his partner company, as she wasn't sure about all this. She had 2 tanks, and he had no interest. She bought a pair of Aphyosemion ottogartneri killies from me. He now has 8 tanks and a killie habit.
I mentioned I had a lot of females from that original species and he brought me 3 jars of his extra males.

This summer, I now need to breed some fish I haven't brought to auction before, to keep it interesting. It's nice to be goals interested.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

We had our end of year fish club meeting last night, as we meet from September to June with the summer off. This is our 3rd year as a face to face, genuine humans in the room club, after about 10 years as a Facebook, "I've never seen that person" club. The first two years, we didn't make the season, with 4 meetings, then 5. This year, we had consistent attendance even with a rough (for us) winter. I see that as an accomplishment.
We found a free venue, but all it really took was two people working to make it happen. We now have 20 regulars, a fun auction and a community to talk fish and plants with. A bunch of introverted fish nerds have found a home.
At the first meeting, a guy came along to keep his partner company, as she wasn't sure about all this. She had 2 tanks, and he had no interest. She bought a pair of Aphyosemion ottogartneri killies from me. He now has 8 tanks and a killie habit.
I mentioned I had a lot of females from that original species and he brought me 3 jars of his extra males.

This summer, I now need to breed some fish I haven't brought to auction before, to keep it interesting. It's nice to be goals interested.

Wow. It's difficult for me to even imagine having a group like that. Such fun. Be grateful.