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Right now I am using my DIY diatom filter to clean out the gravel over my reverse Undergravel filter and blow out detritus in rock. The fish are loving it.
Diatoming tank.jpg
 
OOOOOohhhhhNNNooooo. CRASH.................

........No..not my reef, that would be silly and I run a reverse undergravel filter so it's state of the art.

My worm culture.
I have 2 white worm cultures and they are many years old. I have them in a cooler that you plug in like a picnic cooler. You can even plug it into a car.

I dropped the plug the other day and didn't realize it wasn't fully plugged into the thing and OMG, a heat wave and dead, really, really stinky worms.

One good and weird thing is that out of the 2 containers I have in the cooler, only one crashed and turned into smelly, worm mush. The other one is fine, kind of.

I will just put in more soil in the crashed one. I already cleaned it and the cooler with bleach, and I will add worms from the good culture. :)
 
This guy is 34 and his mate is a couple of years younger. :D They have never been quarantined, medicated, spoken to, observed, de-wormed or anything else. And still spawning like bunnies.



 
I always loved making Halloween costumes and never bought one for my Daughter or Grand Kids.

This was a few years ago. My Daughter and her Husband live in Manhattan so I built them a two person Brooklyn Bridge costume. It was 12' long



It was on TV on a few stations and they were interviewed. The lights worked and there was an accident on the bridge with a car on fire, road flairs and a news helicopter overhead.



 
Next week I have to go in for my 36th surgery. It will take an hour. (Some silly back thing on a vertebra). All thankfully for stupid things like torn and broken parts, loose toggle bolts etc. nothing important. I wasn't exactly a computer programmer and had to actually lift heavy things for almost 50 years. We were not designed for that and were only made to run after Woolly Mammoths and trip them as they go by.

So my surgeon called me yesterday to tell me I have to go to a pre surgery physical. The surgery is Tuesday so it was nice of her to give me 3 days to get this done. Do you think you could get a doctor in that time in New York?

Well, I found one who is probably a Quack but it doesn't matter as long as they know how to work a blood pressure machine and fax it to the surgeon in an hour.

So this morning I had to drive an hour because you also have to meet the anesthesiologist before the procedure, and he doesn't live next door. I drove there during rush hour and waited for the Dr.
Dugie Howser, who is was least 12 years old comes in and introduces himself.

He asked me if I have an artificial heart valve, asthma, high blood pressure, if I am on Prizapro or have urenema or a fish tank. Then he said, Great! I will see you in 3 days.
This took all of 3 minutes and that includes me scratching my nose.

I mean he could have just called me but then he couldn't bill my insurance for $500.79 for "Consultation. Like really!
 
So we are having a Christmas party and we invited way to many people hoping that a few of the people would say they had other plans and couldn't come. Nope,,,All of them are coming. I am not sure where we will fit them and I may have to put my reef out on the sidewalk for a few hours.

I hired a girl to help us serve and clean even though it is catered. We did the same thing last year.

Everyone here who lives with in 2 miles from my house is welcome. :p

It's also my Birthday. Christmas, not today. :D
 
I had my back surgery yesterday. The hospital doesn't allow an Uber to drive you home. You need a real person to get you there and wait for you. Luckily, my closest friend came home early from a Sweet 16 party in his family and drove me. I was in there over 3 hours. First they had to scrape all the ich off my vertebra.

My Wonderful surgeon made 4 incisions in my back, played around in there for over an hour and glued me back up probably with coral glue.

I won't know if it worked for a couple of weeks or months but I have great faith in her.
She is a pain Mgt Dr. and every time my wife or I go to her, we come out dancing.

She is in her 40s and a Supermodel, although that is not why we went to. (but it helped)

I love this doctor as does my wife and would follow her to California if she moved there.

Last night I "slept" with the door opened and felt like someone drove an Oldsmobile on to my bed and parked the right front wheel on my back even though I took Oxycodone and Methocarbambol which put me into GaGa land but didn't do anything for the back pain.

But after 36 surgeries I know the drill and it will get much better by the day.

So I got up at 1:00 am for the pain and "other reasons" :)
 
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