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Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer
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reefsandrotts
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Glad to hear it went well and your spirits are up..
Paul B
NJRC Member
I walk in the mornings and it is cold here in New York so lately I have been wearing mittens. I made these PVC driers because I sweat in them and they are hard to dry.
I used to wear gloves but mittens are much warmer.
Of course some people would use these in their quarantine tanks.
I used to wear gloves but mittens are much warmer.
Of course some people would use these in their quarantine tanks.
Paul B
NJRC Member
I have two possum wrasses, different species I think.
This guy
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And this girl/guy? Very hard to get a picture
They are doing the spawning dance but I didn't think these two would spawn. I have the first one many years and this one only a year or two so maybe they have been spawning all along.
This guy
And this girl/guy? Very hard to get a picture
They are doing the spawning dance but I didn't think these two would spawn. I have the first one many years and this one only a year or two so maybe they have been spawning all along.
momof6kids
NJRC Member
Paul, hopefully you are feeling better today.
Paul B
NJRC Member
Diana I am feeling fantastic. If I felt any better I would hit myself in the face with an eggplant to make sure I was still alive. 
How are you feeling? I hope great.
I have very little pain, almost to little so I am not sure he fixed this with a screw or used duct tape, Not Gorilla tape, that designer pink stuff.
How are you feeling? I hope great.
I have very little pain, almost to little so I am not sure he fixed this with a screw or used duct tape, Not Gorilla tape, that designer pink stuff.
Paul B
NJRC Member
I got my stitches out this morning. I miss them already. In 3 weeks I start PT and I am happy to go because I know the PT person. She looks like Angelina Jolie but of course that had nothing to do with me picking her. I am sure she went to high school and everything.
My wife goes to the same place for PT for a different reason. I am just going for fun as I am not a big believer in that sort of thing as it is for Sissies and Girly Men.
They help you move your arm back and forth a few inches, then rest and have a cookie. Soon after you lift some paper clips while standing on one foot, then rest and have another cookie.
Real men just go out and swing an ax or cro bar a few dozen times or just make wine and you are good to go.
My wife goes to the same place for PT for a different reason. I am just going for fun as I am not a big believer in that sort of thing as it is for Sissies and Girly Men.
They help you move your arm back and forth a few inches, then rest and have a cookie. Soon after you lift some paper clips while standing on one foot, then rest and have another cookie.
Real men just go out and swing an ax or cro bar a few dozen times or just make wine and you are good to go.
Paul B
NJRC Member
I woke up today and my right ear is totally clogged. It isn't easy sleeping anyway because I have to wear this very big, bulky sling thing that is really for Girly Men and I don't need it but my wife thinks that if I don't wear it my arm will fall off at the most in opportune moment. I don't think so.
You can't really listen to"everything" the doctor tells you because he tells you the same thing he tells 97 year old Ladies with Gout.
I go to bed wearing the thing then in 5 minutes it manages to conveniently fall on the floor.
Anyway my clogged ear is an old people thing. You would be amazed the things that you wake up with as you age. Today it's a clogged ear. Tomorrow my arm may fall off.
The clogged ear is actually a good thing like parasites and hair algae and I use it to my advantage.
If someone is talking to me and I don't really like them or find the conversation boring, I turn my clogged ear to them and look interested. I may even stare at the ceiling and think to myself "Doot da do, Doot da do".
The stuff in my ear is wax and us and bees all make the stuff for different reasons. I am not sure if bees have it in their ears or if they even have ears.
I am going to an ear Dr. in a few days and he will dig it out and maybe add some metheline blue.
You can't really listen to"everything" the doctor tells you because he tells you the same thing he tells 97 year old Ladies with Gout.
I go to bed wearing the thing then in 5 minutes it manages to conveniently fall on the floor.
Anyway my clogged ear is an old people thing. You would be amazed the things that you wake up with as you age. Today it's a clogged ear. Tomorrow my arm may fall off.
The clogged ear is actually a good thing like parasites and hair algae and I use it to my advantage.
If someone is talking to me and I don't really like them or find the conversation boring, I turn my clogged ear to them and look interested. I may even stare at the ceiling and think to myself "Doot da do, Doot da do".
The stuff in my ear is wax and us and bees all make the stuff for different reasons. I am not sure if bees have it in their ears or if they even have ears.
I am going to an ear Dr. in a few days and he will dig it out and maybe add some metheline blue.
Hey Paul, get that ear checked out. Right when covid was hitting, I lost hearing in my left ear. As the line goes in Christmas Vacation, "You couldn't hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant." I ended up going to an ENT and found out I had Sudden Deafness....yep, it's a thing. Don't know what causes it, but it happens. The fun part is the cure is three weekly visits to the Dr. to get injections of steroids right through the ear drum, and a script for oral steroids. I was lucky, my hearing returned, but some have permanent loss. So stop being a girly man and get it checked.
On @redfishbluefish the injection shows painful.
Painful? It is a true sign of your girly manhood. The doctor steps out looking like a Borg from Star Trek with the needle in his hand. Here's a picture of my doctor about ready to give me a shot in the ear drum.
Those special glasses allow him to see up close so that when you go back for the second and third shots, he can put the needle back through the hole he made in the first shot. When he tells you that it will be less painful this way, don't believe him.
Paul B
NJRC Member
I absolutely love that quote.
It is true about the needle in the ear drum, that sounds very Manly and a Sissy, Girly man would be screaming so hard he may crush his Barbie doll.
Paul B
NJRC Member
Good morning. I took a walk this morning like I always do and saw, for the third time a Bobcat.
Bobcats are not rare or unusual but they are not supposed to live here on Long Island and haven't been here since way before nancy Pelosi was born.
They would either have to swim the 25 miles from Connecticut or take the Long Island Railroad which I doubt they could afford a daily, one way pass to ride.
I looked the thing up and it is a Lynx Rufus. It looks like a very big, beefy, hairy house cat about the size of a medium size dog.
I don't think the thing could eat me or anything even though I walk there in pitch black but there are some little kids that wait for the school bus there so I was a little concerned and called the
Dept of Environmental Conservation.
It wasn't easy finding an extension to go on because they have things like: hunting licenses, fishing licenses, fresh water fishing licenses, salt water fishing licenses, oyster licenses, clam licenses, muscle licenses, deer licenses, drive on beach licenses, park on beach licenses, look at beach licenses, bird hunting licenses, duck hunting licenses, beaver trapping licenses,
(there was one sighting of a beaver in the last 100 years on Long Island so we may as well shoot it)
Kelp harvesting licenses, amphipod collecting licenses, Licenses to look at Supermodels and licenses to get the phone number to find out where to get a license.
I first went on their web site and filled out a form but had to call it a beaver because these things don't live here so there is no category for them. I would imagine I could have put in penguin but that also wouldn't seem close.
Bobcats are not rare or unusual but they are not supposed to live here on Long Island and haven't been here since way before nancy Pelosi was born.
They would either have to swim the 25 miles from Connecticut or take the Long Island Railroad which I doubt they could afford a daily, one way pass to ride.
I looked the thing up and it is a Lynx Rufus. It looks like a very big, beefy, hairy house cat about the size of a medium size dog.
I don't think the thing could eat me or anything even though I walk there in pitch black but there are some little kids that wait for the school bus there so I was a little concerned and called the
Dept of Environmental Conservation.
It wasn't easy finding an extension to go on because they have things like: hunting licenses, fishing licenses, fresh water fishing licenses, salt water fishing licenses, oyster licenses, clam licenses, muscle licenses, deer licenses, drive on beach licenses, park on beach licenses, look at beach licenses, bird hunting licenses, duck hunting licenses, beaver trapping licenses,
(there was one sighting of a beaver in the last 100 years on Long Island so we may as well shoot it)
Kelp harvesting licenses, amphipod collecting licenses, Licenses to look at Supermodels and licenses to get the phone number to find out where to get a license.
I first went on their web site and filled out a form but had to call it a beaver because these things don't live here so there is no category for them. I would imagine I could have put in penguin but that also wouldn't seem close.
Paul B
NJRC Member
They called back to ask what I saw. I told them and the guy said, "We don't have those here".
I told him: "We do now". He didn't believe me and said it is probably a house cat.
I told him I lived in the jungles of Viet Nam for a year and saw elephants, tigers, cobra's and all sorts of animals and I have also seen quite a lot of house cats.
He said, take a picture. I walk every morning and in the last year I walked about 350 times and saw the thing 3 times. Usually it's cold, like 11 degrees and when I take out my phone to take a picture it fogs up and I doubt this creature will wait the 3 or 4 minutes until it clears up.
If the thing tears off my leg, I will take my leg there to show them.
I told him: "We do now". He didn't believe me and said it is probably a house cat.
I told him I lived in the jungles of Viet Nam for a year and saw elephants, tigers, cobra's and all sorts of animals and I have also seen quite a lot of house cats.
He said, take a picture. I walk every morning and in the last year I walked about 350 times and saw the thing 3 times. Usually it's cold, like 11 degrees and when I take out my phone to take a picture it fogs up and I doubt this creature will wait the 3 or 4 minutes until it clears up.
If the thing tears off my leg, I will take my leg there to show them.
Paul B
NJRC Member
We had a full day today. Neurologists, MRIs, blood tests and dentists. All for my wife. Then on our way home is the biggest liquor store in the US. No really. It's about as big as two Home Depots. Not the Home Depots in some back water town in Tunisia either. I am so thrilled. Not because we spent a little over $300.00 in there but the fact that they took all the Russian Vodka off the shelves and put up a sign that they won't sell it.
I just looked here and I don't have any or I would have poured it out.
But thats just me.
This week my tank is 51 years old.
I just looked here and I don't have any or I would have poured it out.
But thats just me.
This week my tank is 51 years old.
