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Yesterday I went to my favorite 50 year old LFS. When I got there he was running out to Home Depot. He had a flood. This place is so old and there is always so much water on the floor I am not sure how he knew he had a leak unless he saw a couple of lipstick tangs swimming between his feet...

It has an adjustable "bulkhead" inside that can be raised or lowered and being it is on the outflow of the skimmer, the water in this device sets the height of the water in the skimmer. I just need to wait for the acrylic solvent to dry.

OOOOoohhhhhhNNNNNNooooooo.......I was "playing" behind my reef tank putting a 5 gallon office water cooler bottle (empty) on a shelf. It fell off into my 5' skimmer. Instant flood. OMG, I thought the skimmer broke as water was spurting out really fast. It is the DIY acrylic chamber that is...

Maybe I should read it again. I forgot what I wrote :p The first printing was in color but I understand the new ones with the picture of the copperband on the cover is black and white. I don't know why because I asked for color and I don't know how to change it. :confused:

So this year I am changing the way I donate the money from my book to the MS society. I used to wait until I got $500.00, then I would donate that. But I can't figure out Amazons web site so I will just wait until the end of the year when they send me the W2 form for my taxes. I just got it and...

A film crew from Long Island News 12 is coming here on February 17th to film the meeting of me and Cathleen. I don't know when it will air yet. :cool: Maybe they will want to make a movie. Brad Pitt can play me and Scarlet Johansen can play Cathleen the girl who sent me the Christmas card...

Nice view of the back of my tank and my impeccable electrical work. :oops: That orange bucket has a DIY leak detector for my DIY skimmer (not likely) There is a "probe" in the bucket connected to the GFCI outlet so if it gets wet, it turns off the power to the pump that feeds the skimmer. I use...

The Long Island News station called me a little while ago to tell me they are going to air my story of the "girl" who sent me a Christmas card in Viet Nam in 1970. She lives in New Jersey (near you guys) and as soon as she can get here, they will send a film crew here. She is an executive and...

I did my walk this morning which may have been a mistake. All the YouTube video's I see (and we all know that the doctors on YouTube are the best) They say walking is the best thing for back pain. It hurts at first but you have to work through the pain and it will get better. "Better" is a...

MadReefer, I am trying very hard to stay out of a hospital as my wife needs me. (for everything) But I know some back surgery is in my near future. Especially if I want to do things like walk and sit. I have an appointment tomorrow for a physical but he is only a GP so won't be an expert on...

Good morning. I didn't go walking this morning like I normally do and it has nothing to do with the ice covered ground and 22 degree temperatures. Last night around 5:00 my back went totally out. I am not sure who it went out with but I wish it would go out again and stay out. Again I couldn't...

On another note, and more exciting for me, I just got a call from a Local Long Island News station. They may want to do a story on me and that 10 year old woman that wrote me a Christmas card while I was in Viet Nam 55 years ago. They want to film the meeting of the two of us because I didn't...

Thats correct Diana. Millenniums don't now what real snow is. Yesterday they predicted this "Blizzard" here. They salted the streets and brought out the big plows. We got about 1/16th of an inch of "snow" and they made a big deal out of it. This was me in about 1972 making a ton of...

My back needs to get better because I just received a letter asking me If I wanted to be Honored for my service in Viet Nam with a bunch of other Veterans from WW2 and Korea. They will fly us to Washington DC on what is called an Honor Flight, where we will tour the WW2, Korea and Viet Nam...

OMG Diana. You made so many enemies by saying "SnowMan". After all, there are Snow Ladies, Snow Females, Snow Women and probably Snow Taylor Swifts. :D The Hair on those Snow females is probably made of linguine because snow hair may be difficult to make unless you put "product" in it but...

We got about an eighth of an inch of snow this morning. They will probably close the airports and call out the national Guard or the Boy Scouts. :)

Thank you Diana. Now I am walking upright more like an arrow crab. The narcotics, pain meds, tens pack, cold compresses, back brace and Christmas tree smelling sticky pads seems to have worked. :D I don't normally get that severe pain while I am walking, usually it waits until I get home for...

Thank you. I do feel much better now. :)

So this morning, like all mornings I went for a walk. Normally I walk for about an hour and I go early, way before the sun comes up because I am walking for exercise and I think exercise is a waste of time so I want to get it over with before the world gets up so I don't waste any time. I am...

Beautiful walk. :D