What are you doing today?

[gwand]

Yeah, but if a giant African grasshopper were crushed, would you be able to save it??? I dissected that in Grade 10!

I've never dissected a fish to be able to prove tb or any such disease, and it has occurred to me that dissection is one of those skills I thought were without value at the time, but that I should have paid attention to. Like languages and chemistry.

Our anatomy instructor was an old school pedant, professor Richard Snell. He wrote our anatomy and embryology text books. When he called on a male student he addressed him as Horace. When he called on a female student he addressed her a Matilda. He couldn’t bother to learn our names. Well I will cut him a break. There were 100 of us. Professor Snell always insisted that we have the utmost respect for our cadaver.

 

[jaylach]

Actually just my normal mellow day watching re-runs of Law And Order. One of the shows reminded me of a pet peeve. When a judge tells the jury to ignore something a witness or lawyer says. It is stupid as the jury already heard it. Can a juror not hear what they already heard? I think not. Just seems dumb to me that a court can expect a juror to ignore something they already heard.

 

[bgarthe]

Well, the Muzel Red Cherry Tetras came this morning and all ten are doing fine in the QT after acclimation. I have to say that my first order with DansFish.com was awesome. The order was well organized, pkg was well done, and I am very pleased. These pics are just quick pics from the QT. Every hour, they’re getting more and more color.Better pics will follow. Just think…..in a years time, I have managed to obtain my three most desired fish…….Gold Blue Eyed Congo Tetra, Rummynose Rasboras, and now the Red Cherry Tetra.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Last night I went to a shoot with the local archery club. I was the only trad shooter there--everyone else had ultra-high-tech compounds. I was expecting that. Almost all of the targets were way out of my range--I was expecting that too, expecting to miss more than I hit, and looking forward to some long range practice.

I wasn't expecting the range to be in a hay field with tall grass and no backstops of any kind behind the targets, which caused me to spend more time looking for arrows than I spent actually shooting (I only lost one). I also wasn't expecting to slip and fall in an irrigation ditch and dunk all my arrows, which are held together with water-soluble hide glue, causing the fletching to fall off.

Sigh...some days are like that.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Actually just my normal mellow day watching re-runs of Law And Order. One of the shows reminded me of a pet peeve. When a judge tells the jury to ignore something a witness or lawyer says. It is stupid as the jury already heard it. Can a juror not hear what they already heard? I think not. Just seems dumb to me that a court can expect a juror to ignore something they already heard.

In my limited experience, that's just a TV thing. In real life, if the jury hears something they weren't supposed to, the opposing attorney moves for a mistrial, the jury is dismissed, and the whole thing starts over from square one.

 

[Boundava]

Last night I went to a shoot with the local archery club. I was the only trad shooter there--everyone else had ultra-high-tech compounds. I was expecting that. Almost all of the targets were way out of my range--I was expecting that too, expecting to miss more than I hit, and looking forward to some long range practice.

I wasn't expecting the range to be in a hay field with tall grass and no backstops of any kind behind the targets, which caused me to spend more time looking for arrows than I spent actually shooting (I only lost one). I also wasn't expecting to slip and fall in an irrigation ditch and dunk all my arrows, which are held together with water-soluble hide glue, causing the fletching to fall off.

Sigh...some days are like that.

Oh man, that stinks. Super goofy they had no backstops, not too professional on the club's part.
Glad you weren't hurt with the slip and fall.

 

[Boundava]

Today is a rainy one and I'm at work with 1 Dr. here today. So it will be slow and we may have some no-shows due to the weather.

Office isn't usually open Friday's unless Dr. needs to squeeze urgent patients or patients she cancelled on previously. Hope she runs on time as I don't want to be here too much past 2:30 (when I an scheduled to leave).

 

[gimme30]

@WhistlingBadger I had a similar sort of day yesterday.
A friend took me to Lizzies, an indoor axe throwing place with an arcade. I really didn't want to go because ever since I broke my collar bone I haven't been able to throw ANYTHING very well, be it basketballs, baseballs, or knives, but he was pretty excited about it so I went.
I should have known when the door hit me in the face on the way in, (my fault, wasn't paying attention to the rude s.o.b. before me who let go of the door) that it wasn't going to be a good time.
I misgendered the "guy" training me so lessons were cut short. After two throws that bounced right off the target I was told I needed to 'put my back into it' and wound up breaking the axe on the target support. When it was my turn for beers...yep, I slipped turning around and down they went.
On the way home my buddy got pulled over for speeding not 300 feet from my front door. I'm glad he was driving. The mood I was in I would have wound up in jail.

Some days really are like that. Thankfully they're few and far between.

 

[Boundava]

Ouch, whoops, wow, another whoops and yikes, seems to sum up that night. Sometimes life gives you a not just 1 lemon but a bucket of them and no tools to make lemonade...

 

[Boundava]

Lol, so half way through the day at work and I am looking at videos on rock carving. Going to be making some rocks from extruded Styrofoam for the 38 gallon. Hoping for a weekend that isn't too hot so I can cut and shape it outside. I have a hot knife that stinks to high heck when cutting the foam. Excited as I love doing stuff like this. Have made 2 foam DIY backgrounds; 1 " desert rocky ledge" for my 75 gallon before MTS set in, then one "submerged bamboo forest" for my 125.

Will be doing the usual Drylock and maybe some additional sand, though Drylock is pretty gritty unless they changed the formula in the past 4-ish years.

 

[MattW]

I've just witnessed the most insane comeback in CS e-sports history. BIG, a German organisation, was down 12-0 to NRG, an American organisation. It was pretty much game over as round 13 would have eliminated BIG if NRG won. They didn't. BIG then went on to win 16-12 in overtime, completing the world's first 16-round flawless run in e-sports history! + It was on home soil in Cologne

 

[GaryE]

I just got back from kayaking on a lazy river. It amazes me that aquatic plants seem to take off before terrestrial ones. We've had a cold Spring, and yet the usual suspects are growing well. Vallisneria, Sagittaria, Ludwigia, water lilies and those things there were around in good starting clumps.

I drifted along - with my phone out! I was using the Merlin app from Cornell University to identify bird songs. I'm no real birdwatcher, but as the songs produced pictures and profiles of the birds, I was able to look for them. I've kayaked that river many times and never spotted so many different species. I have a little online tutorial there telling me what I should look for.

There are lots of beautiful wee bird species around here. Fishwise, all I saw were bass and killies.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Lol, so half way through the day at work and I am looking at videos on rock carving. Going to be making some rocks from extruded Styrofoam for the 38 gallon. Hoping for a weekend that isn't too hot so I can cut and shape it outside. I have a hot knife that stinks to high heck when cutting the foam. Excited as I love doing stuff like this. Have made 2 foam DIY backgrounds; 1 " desert rocky ledge" for my 75 gallon before MTS set in, then one "submerged bamboo forest" for my 125.

Will be doing the usual Drylock and maybe some additional sand, though Drylock is pretty gritty unless they changed the formula in the past 4-ish years.

What kind of rock are you doing for this one? You know, I think it was you who turned me on to the blue foam/drylok combo way back at the old forum. I have done a LOT with that technique! You and I should teach a masterclass in Fake Rock Making 101 at the next Fish Forum Convention.

 

[jaylach]

Just went from happy waiting on a baseball game and decided to call a friend in Ohio. His daughter answered and I'm no longer happy. He has been dealing with MS since 1978 but is now in intensive care with internal bleeding they are having trouble isolating. The guy is more family than friend. As he puts it we are brothers of different mothers and have been since 10th grade.

 

[jaylach]

Thanks @MattW . Funny thing (don't mean humorous) about MS is there are different forms. My friends form is actually not fatal on its own but weakens, over time, the ability to fight things. Sort of like HIV and/or AIDS on this. AIDS does not kill but takes away the bodies ability to fight off the things that do the killing.

I sadly just think his time is at an end. Shoot, 6-8 week ago he had a heart attack from which he survived but I think it was just an indication that his body is shutting down. Saddens me but let's face it... From the moment of our conception in the womb we are in the process of dying.