Kevin's Watch

My friends are going to be SO jealous.

i ALREADY am JEALOUS.

bloodguard bob wrote:

Damelon wrote:Where did you stay, BGB?

first we stayed at the Venetian in a nice suite for two nights, some Inn at the Grand Canyon, then a penthouse in Treasure Island when back in Vegas.

The Venetian, nice. A penthouse. Highroller, you.

If we go this fall, we'll be at the Rio.

rio's nice, saw penn & teller there. i wanted to stay at new york, new york so i could ride the roller coaster every hour but i didn't pay for anything so i'm not complaining.

I did the roller coaster at New York, New York the last time I was there. I won't do the rides at the Stratosphere though.

the rides at the strat are fun as ef. the last time i went the girl i went with quickly became addicted to slots. bored out of my mind i spent two and a half hours on the roof of the stratosphere. i must have ridden the Upshot twenty times in a row.
but yeah, the one that blasts you over the edge of the roof'll scare the tinkle out of ya.

Off to spend a long weekend in a caravan with the wife and kids.

Entertainment provided by these two scary dudes.



Can't wait, I love these short breaks.

Tomorrow night I'm off to the U.P. (Upper Peninsula) of Michigan for a weekend of fishing.

I just have to get through work tomorrow.

what are you fishing for up there?

Smallmouth and walleye in that lake. We get an occasional Northern, but I won't be fishing for them.

walleye on light line are a lot of fun.i got an old split cane fly rod from my dad for x-mas probably 60 years old. yesterday i got some new eyes and line for it so on top of my usual weekend fishing i'm gonna try out the casting ponds in golden gate park. it'll be my first time casting a fly on water.

I've never owned a fly rod, but it's something I'd like to try. I've got a buddy that fly fishes all the time. He goes to Montana most every summer to fish the streams there.

This weekend we're moving. Packing, purging, more packing, yard sale Saturday morning, more packing, moving the boxed-up stuff on Sunday, more packing, and still more packing. The movers come Tuesday for the furniture. Then we get to clean the place, spackle all the nail holes, shampoo the carpet, etc.

And then, when that's all done, we get to unpack. And by then it'll be time to clean the new place.

Can I go fishing instead?

I just spent sunday setting up my 200 litre aquariam! It has a South American theme, with an Aztec temple surrounded by many plants and an Easter Island statue in an area bereft of plants. No fish in it, yet, as you have to age the water and ensure healthy bacteria build up.

It cost me a fortune.

My weekend starts tomarrow. I work a 5-close, so my buddy Ryan and I are going to hang for my pre-birthday. He's going to be gone next weekend, so we're hanging now. We'll probably see a flick or something.

Not much else going on up here in Olywa.

That's cool Lore! I just got rid of all my humongous tanks, 100 gallon and others. Now I am down to one five gallon with various tetras.

Cameraman Jenn wrote:That's cool Lore! I just got rid of all my humongous tanks, 100 gallon and others. Now I am down to one five gallon with various tetras.

Why did you get rid of the larger tanks?

because she's couch-surfing at my place and i already got rid of a 55 gallon live reef.
are you gonna have south american species as well like brackish water amazon stuff or salt water, or maybe invertabrates?

Loremaster wrote:I just spent sunday setting up my 200 litre aquariam! It has a South American theme, with an Aztec temple surrounded by many plants and an Easter Island statue in an area bereft of plants. No fish in it, yet, as you have to age the water and ensure healthy bacteria build up.

Cool! I have a fishtank. I think it's about 200 litres. I'm not into theme tanks as such (you know, with statues and stuff). I like to set mine up a-la-natural kinda thing. We have guppies (cool fish since they breed like rabbits when the conditions are right) and a water loach that SoS calls "loachie". So I have lotsa rocks, bits of driftwood, lots of aquatic ferns and stuff. Nothing more soothing than lying around watching fish. And SoS loves them...and even the cat thinks they're brilliant. Although I have a snail infestation at the moment...these things grow HUGE and also breed like rabbits...bah!

Seareach wrote:Cool! I have a fishtank. I think it's about 200 litres. I'm not into theme tanks as such (you know, with statues and stuff). I like to set mine up a-la-natural kinda thing. We have guppies (cool fish since they breed like rabbits when the conditions are right) and a water loach that SoS calls "loachie". So I have lotsa rocks, bits of driftwood, lots of aquatic ferns and stuff. Nothing more soothing than lying around watching fish. And SoS loves them...and even the cat thinks they're brilliant. Although I have a snail infestation at the moment...these things grow HUGE and also breed like rabbits...bah!

Agreed about the soothing part. Absolutely.

As for the snail infestation - my 20L tank has a snail problem, too. You can buy a product that disrupts the breeding cycle, and it's not expensive either.