New Fish Day

First note. Toooooo daaaaaaaaaaaamn hooootttttt. Cleaned up some of the stuff in the way so teinedreugan could put in the other AC unit when he got home. Which is why the living room is liveable; he set that up before we went out.

Out was productive. Got a lamp to put in the mathom room (so I can have indoor lighting for the lily tank). Got a new phone earpiece (mine has succumbed to the fact that I affect my environment like a Calabite, and also the fact that the old one irritated me). Got new printer cartridge. Then got an orange and cinnamon sticks (for the rhodomel I need to start before the roses go) and lightbulbs for the lamp.

And then fish. (It is also worth noting that there was an awfully cute I-think-it-was-a jungle carpet python coiled up around a branch. Cuteness!) (Also they had crawdads. Swimming ones, not just lurking ones.) It was New Fish Day at the pet store -- about a third of the tanks had plastic bags floating in them with fish in, staring out at the world and going 'glurp'. Took your advice, alhandra -- got a half dozen cherry barbs to go with the algae-eaters. The algae-eaters were hard to catch, and were in a tank with a burrowing eel; the shop clerk would chase an algae-eater around with the net, and disturb the eel, which would suddenly snap into vision, undulate across the tank, and vanish into the gravel again as smoothly as Kitty Pryde. Shoop!

Came home, read yehoshua's summary of today's game and read bits of it to teinedreugan. Fishies are now in their own bag, floating in the lily tank to acclimate. Water swap in half an hour, and I check on them occasionally to make sure the cats aren't getting at 'em.

Had this conversation with oneironaut:

I say "THe barbs are all attempting to swim out the corne of the bag they're in. All of them. At once."
oneironaut says "United we stand...."
I say "United we all attempt to occupy the same place at the same time."
oneironaut says "United we don't have a very good grasp of physics...."

So. New fish day.