Fish tank stuff

Ordered another pump, inline filter, bought more rock, and some plants.

$500.

I need cheaper hobbies.

Tonight off to a costume party. Buying tickets for seattle, over the weekend of the 4th of November to visit Fiona.

Spent most of the day cleaning.

Thank god for small favors.

On 27 October 2006 02:53 PM Pacific Time Kathryn chose to permanently close communication with you for the following reason(s):

I want to pursue other matches at eharmony.

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Expired domain name

My domain expired for a few days...I have more than one network solutions account, and the account with sjvarley.com domain had bad email/mail info. I guess my notice was no more domain... oh well.

Of course I had no idea what the login info was, and they can't email it through the expired domain because it points to nowhere. It took about 2 days of faxing paperwork before it was straightened out.

You can merge accounts now, so it's all in one place.

I've been using wells fargo bill pay, so I can't remember the last time I actually wrote a physical check. It works, and seems pretty reasonable. My home equity line is through wells fargo, so you would think paying them from thier own website would be a no brainer...well, not exactly. Sure, you send the money... and they happily take it out of your checking acount and then who knows where it goes. Something like that shouldn't take days and days.

I came home to water in the basement from a dry fish tank sump. Something leaked after the pump went out. More fish tank fun.

Tank hell

A fish died...the tank specs look ok, so it might just be old age.

I cleaned the tank a bit today and added in a 20 micron inline filter. One of the pumps failed... the pumps are shit, really -- not worth the money spent, that's for sure. I'll have to order another set of pumps next week. The pumps I'll get are top of the line but expensive. Another $700 or so down the toilet, all for some expensive sushi.

I need to shoot some pictures of the truck. I never did shoot any 'pre' pictures... oh well. It's coming along, but has a way to go. It's been a fun project.

Sunday suck... I'm not giddy about tomorrow being Monday again.

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Winter

Not sleeping

I'm only sleeping from Midnight to 3am lately, so if I'm spacy or not quite there you'll know why.

Not by choice, really.

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e-disharmony

Lucky for you, I've recently broken the cryptic e-harmony code for their canned responses to when someone isn't interested in a match. Here goes:

What they say:
'Based on statements in this profile, I'm not interested in this match.'

What it means:
'Sure, you own your own home, have great wine and dinner parties, spend time in the mountains hiking/backpacking/snowshoeing, attend plays and the symphony downtown, but the reality is you're just too ugly to date.'


What they say:
'I don't feel the chemistry is there.'

What they mean:
'I didn't actually read your profile, but by your picture I know for certain you're just too ugly to date.'


What they say:
'I'm pursuing other matches at e-harmony'

What they mean:
'I'd rather date my brother's retarded best friend than you.'


What they say:
'I'm taking a break from dating.'

What they mean:
'Matching with you makes me want to take a break from dating.'


What they say:
'I'm taking a break from dating right now, but I may be interested in this match in the future.'

What they mean:
'I'm fucking this really hot guy right now, but I may be interested in letting you know some time in the future that I'm pursuing other matches at e-harmony'


What they say:
'Other'

What they mean:
'Not only wouldn't I date you, but when I saw your profile I felt such a sense of horror that I could only check the box closest to the top of the screen.'

spin city

Catch me if you can

Wanted

Potential breeding partner for long term spawn raising project. Please send references and qualifications, including a current DNA profile.

Theme dinner party

A vegetarian theme dinner party... lot's of vegetables, hold the meat.

I picked a salad at the grocery store. Hilary made pumpkin pie and soup, with beer in it and everything. Nikki made lasagna, Rebekeh found a vegan pie with chocolat in it, Jen brought (wait for it) vegetables, and I think Dan spent all day making home-made pasta for his pasta and cheese dish -- He's insane!

I felt all tingly and warm after dinner...maybe all those crunchy things called vegetables. That quickly dissapeared the next morning after I cooked myself a hamburger for breakfast.

Afterward we watched Grey's Anatomy...

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theme dinner party

Mom would be proud...kids all grow-ed up and still longing for the days of meatloaf in a pan, bacon and velveeta(tm) on toast, a super-sekret puffed pastry recipie That Was Not To Be Revealed, and a box of twinkies.

Some other dishes included a sausage thing, a corned beef thing, and hand crafted clam chowder flown in by private jet that morning from Boston.

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It's Wed

Which doesn't mean much of anything, really. I worked late last night and then came home and worked some more.

Canned another 6 quarts of tomatoes and there are more to go...now what the fuck does one boy do with 30 quarts of tomatoes?

Today will probably be much the same...except that I've got a dinner party here tomorrow night, so I'll have to get ready for that.

If rover was in the water

He'd be lunch.

Champagne pj party

As far as I can tell, nobody got sticky (from spilling champagne of course) and the carpets are safe for another year or so.

We had a lot of champagne. I mean...a lot of champagne. I'm pretty sure I won't be drinking any champagne for some time.

Anyway, so back to the party. We had pj's, food, crazy dogs, champagne, random amounts of beer, and no arrests.

Some brave souls stayed for the midnight movie madness and even crazier people were making breakfast when I woke up.

I'd say we're good on the pj thing for a while.

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I need to get laid...or at least run over by something bigger than a geo metro.