so to start the evening i had the trepidation… actually… not so much the trepidation but i was all… “uhhhh… whatever”…. because this halloween it was decided that my job was to man the door and hand out the loot…
initially… i was sad… last year i had lotsa fun roaming around with the kiddos getting goodies…
but i, my friends, am a team player… and if the team decided that i was the candy-handing-out mo-fo this year then so be it… i would make the best of it…
and i actually had a fine time… i hung out with our new fishies… i spun pink floyd’s dark side of the moon louder than ususal… my new drinkin’ buddy tapvat / cerveza de barril / le fut pression was there… as were my pals the skulls… you’ll notice the best in-the-dark-shot i could accomplish was a bit on the blurry side… i blame my new drinkin’ buddy tapvat / cerveza de barril / le fut pression…
and i began my campaign to establish our house as the place to go on halloween night… “dig in kiddos”… go on, have another”… “you must be kidding… you call your self a trick-or-treater???”… my goal was to dump all the goodies before the kiddos got home… i came up short but within a half hour or so we were out… hopefully we have thrown down the gauntlet and are in the running for best-place-to-go hono(u)rs…
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i reckon i’m going to use some of these new-fangled whiz-bang MT4 type style tools to spruce up the look of these very pages… and if history is an indicator i’ll hose it and it’ll look a bit off until i get it right… so bear with me…
so how odd is this???… i get an email yesterday from someone saying that a really effective night-time cough remedy is vicks vaporub… well “duh?!?!?” you might say “that’d be what it’s for after all”… but here’s the thing… the suggestion is that this stuff is wicked-cool effective, especially for kids, if you rub a bunch of it on the soles of the cough-afflicted’s feet before bed… hmmnnn…
well i’m of the opinion that medicine sure is cool and all… but i reckon there’s a lot more we don’t know about the human body compared to the amount of stuff we’ve figured out… and when all’s said and done the cure to stuff like cancer is probably going to be something like marinara enemas or something truly odd…
this … uh… open-mindedness on my part… and the fact that both of our darling offspring were in possession of truly bad-ass hacking coughs that had kept them up the night before was just too good an opportunity to pass up… so we slathered them up in the interest of science and the chance to get some sleep (them and us)…
and damn if it didn’t work… not for the whole night but for 3-4 hours at a time… pretty much no hacking at all and some restful sleep…
so there’s your tip for the day, gentle reader…. vaporub on the feet… works wonders… (not-so-much the marinara enemas)…
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fred meyer… big time…
specifically this one…
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so yesterday we had a lil’ halloween get together at our house… we were joined by four or five families that we’ve met either through work colleagues or through the kiddos…
lotsa fun was had… love-of-my life karen talked about it and posted some pics here… my favo(u)rite picture is yours truly fisting a wee little pumpkin with glee…
after recovering from the revelries on saturday we headed out to the fish sto’ to try to make sense of the fish situation… i mentioned our first wave of troubles here… unfortunately that wasn’t the end of it… we had (err… they had) the ick (ich) (f*cking ich as i like to call it)… and we experienced a near total wipeout of our tank… when all was said and done we had the two plecos (which is kinda cool because they’re my faves) and a black loach left…
so we took a water sample to our pals at big al’s… i was pretty tickled when my new best fish pal steve told me that our tank water was the best he’d seen in ages and ages… so the light was green… opportunity knocked… and k and i decided to answer and head to africa… our tank is now devoted to the african cichlids… which is kind of a big move… these fishies are kinda the link between fresh and saltwater… they’re a bit finicky… sometimes agressive… and don’t get along with the regular run-of-the-mill community-type fish… the cool thing is that they’re often pretty colo(u)rful and groovy lookin’ compared to the regular community folk… so i sorta feel like we’ve taken the step from aquarium neophytes to semi-experienced aquarist folk… apart from the fact that we just wiped out virtually our whole tank i guess…
anyway… we got some new dudes and dudettes to the aquarium today and we’ll add to them over the next couple of weeks… in a month we should have a pretty stylin’ and colo(u)rful tank… and as soon as i can figure out how to take some pictures of our new pals that are in focus and look good i’ll post ‘em…
