Modern day Babel

When I was younger, I hated it when my sister's friendwould try to talk to someone (Mostly me) in french, Spanish, or whatever other language he knew. The boy knew like 4 languages. It frustrated me that I couldn't understand him when he did this and he "Couldn't" understand why I didn't know what he was saying. It was truly obnoxious on "It's a small world After All" as he tried to sing the soprano part in a falsetto voice in every language he knew. Eventually I didn't see him as much, though I bet he still does it occaisionally.

Now Emma's doing it in her own made-up language. She seems to have no Idea why I don't know what she's saying. I wonder if slipping into other languages and then wondering why no one understands you is a recessive personality trait that made its way into the gene pool about the time of the tower of Babel and occaisionally rears its ugly head in modern times. Must be, because I haven't seen any 4-mile high temples recently...

Where've you been?

The time since the last post has been spent in a whirlwhind of decision and indecision. We've almost purchased two houses and Have spent a whole ton of money.

With the decision not to buy each house, we've consoled ourselves with Major purchases. After House #1, we Bought a tampoline for Emma and Levi to replace the one my sister had here for a while. Sadly, it has not discouraged Emma and Levi from bouncing off everything else. (Emma, Mostly. Levi's a pretty calm little boy).

After Near miss #2, we got into Aquariums and fish raising. We started out with a 10-gallon tank we'd inherited from my sister, thinking "Oh, we'll just put some water in it and have some fish. " Little did we know. All the accessories for that little tank cost us several pretty pennies and started an addiction I'm not trying too hard to control.

We bought fish for the tank and then realized one, a plecostymus (or however you spell it) would outgrow the smaller tank. So I started looking around and found someone at work that sold me his old tank for $20. The rest of the stuff for it, I had to buy. It sure is a beauty, though:

And that's before I started putting in fun real plants instead of fake ones! I'm still having a blast learning Aquascaping and choosing plants for our little fish.

Our hard work was rewarded last night when we found fry (baby fish) in our tank, too! There were 10 last night and we only see 5 or so today, but they're such excellent little hiders, there's no way of knowing how many there really are or how many make it to adulthood.

Right now, the population consists of :
Piglet (Orange Dalmation Molly Male)
Booga (Black Dalmation Molly Female)
Piglet (Black Dalmation Molly Female)
Frohlie (Nearly red Molly whose gender is yet indiscovered. The fish store guy said it was female, but it looks more like male to me.)

Mickey (Male Mickey Mouse Platy)
Minnie ( Female Mickey Mouse Platy)
Daisy (Female Mickey Mouse Flaty)

Curious George (Plecostymus)
and 3 unnamed otocinclises that look too much alike to tell apart.

I've another friend who says he has a tank just sitting around not being used if I want it, too. I've had a hard time getting hold of him to work out how to get it too. I can't wait to Aquascape it!

Adventures in Helpdesking

Tech: okay, do you see an icon on the desktop called "Citrix Program Neighborhood"?
User: No, I see "Citrix Program neighborhood". Is that it?

Tech: Do you see the clock in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen?
User: No. I only see the time

User: I have Microwave windows and...

Tech: Okay, I need you to click on [icon]
User: Left or right click?

Yeah, sometimes it's pretty entertaining working on a help desk.

"javajavajavajavajavajavajavajavajava!" - George of the jungle

I will never be a programmer and can't wait to get the programming classes out of my way.

Justice

oh. my. gosh!

I loved the Smallville episode Justice. It was actually exciting to watch again!I wonder what it would take to have CW consider a spin off?

labrynth, on the other hand, was a disappointment.