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  1. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    My power was out last night and it just came back on. But being an electrician, I have emergency lights all over the place including in my workshop near my tank so I had light to connect my car battery jumper which I keep charged all the time. It has a plug where I plugged in a powerhead on my...
  2. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Invasive species and I can't even keep them alive. https://keysweekly.com/42/looking-for-a-pulse-commercial-trappers-recreational-stone-crabbers-should-be-on-the-lookout-for-this-nonnative-coral-2/
  3. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Thinking outside the box Unfortunately there is this box. It is very comfortable and warm inside the box which is why almost everyone wants to stay and think inside the box. People inside the box all have much of the same ideas and ways of thinking and oddly enough many of the same problems...
  4. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Wisdom. There is an old Testament reading (6:12-16) that explains if you are generally seeking wisdom, then open your mind and heart and wisdom will seek you out and be found sitting by your front gate. That is a little before my time (not much). Religion and science have a lot in common. Most...
  5. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    So far, after 52 years, she does. I hear at 53 years problems start. :eek2:
  6. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    This week I took my Bride to Cape Cod for our anniversary. We took the ferry from Orient Point on the end of the North Fork of Long Island about 45 minutes from my house. It takes about an hour and a half to get to New London, Connecticut. Then it's about 2 1/2 hours to the B&B that we...
  7. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    52 years Diana. :eek2:
  8. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    It's scheduled for the 21st of this month. Tomorrow we are going away for our 52nd wedding anniversary to Cape Cod for a couple of days. My friend will take care of the fish and our friend, Sue above will stay with us for a couple of days. After that, I am on my own but we have a lot of...
  9. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I couple of months ago I had a new back procedure done and it totally eliminated my back pain. You know, pain you get from working hard, like MAN working. I don't mean like swatting flying microscope parasites nine feet from your tank. :cool: Anyway, yesterday a girl from the company who...
  10. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I had to be in the hospital this morning at 8:00 am for the stupid pre-surgery thing. The nurse took my blood pressure, which, by the way, is always perfect. I should be in the "Blood Pressure Monthly" magazine. My pressure is always a little low, which is good for when I discuss diseases with...
  11. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I just got off the phone with the hospital. I think they have me on speed dial, as this will be, I think, my 39th surgery. I have to go in next week for the "Pre Surgery" nonsense. I wrote down everything except the date, and of course, they don't answer the phone. After the pre-surgery...
  12. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    It seems to be porgy season. As soon as you put a hook in the water, nothing but porgies. :p
  13. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    So I finally found some people who like to eat Porgies and invited them over. I didn't think they would all agree to come so I have a lot of cooking to do. I have about 140 Porgies, (which means 280 fillets) so I won't run out of fish. I have 7 "guests" coming over so I made olive oil and...
  14. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I know this is supposed to be about fish, so I will write something about fish so I don't get banned. :eek2: My tank seems to be doing very well. All the fish are doing what they are supposed to do. I finally eliminated all the invasive sponge, diatoms, and algae. I don't have much time to...
  15. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    On my raining early walk this morning I saw something in the grass in the distance. At first I thought it was a wounded baby deer, or a rabid racoon or maybe even an Alien from the Andromeda Galaxy. But No!. It was this snapping turtle about 25lbs and about 2 1/2' long head to tail. I tried to...
  16. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Yesterday I took my Grand Son Teddy fishing for Porgies. We tried to get on the boat we went on last time but they raised the boat owners docking fees by $5,000.00 so he sold the boat. We found another fishing boat in another place and got on that. This boat goes to deeper water, over 100' so...
  17. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    About 100 miles past that bridge in the background is God's country, where I live on eastern Long Island. The place is very crowded, but the good part was that they put out a huge oyster bar. My favorite food, so I stood there and slurped them up as soon as they hit the ice. As we waited, I...
  18. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    So, about the wedding we went to this weekend. We took the Hampton Jitney from our house on Long Island for the 80 or 100-mile trip to Manhattan. The bus isn't far from us, maybe 15 minutes so I gave us half an hour. We were behind farm equipment which I couldn't pass so we just made it at 1:00...
  19. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I have to go to Manhattan today for a wedding. There is no place in the world I would rather "not" be, although I worked there all my life. I would much rather be up to my waist in the mud of a rice paddy in Vietnam, burning leeches off the skin under my arms with a cigarette while 7 Vietcong...
  20. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    So, I got my MRI back, and the surgeon said, when do you want to do this?' I said yesterday. This is for my new right shoulder. It got jealous because I have a brand new left shoulder and left knee. I think this will be my 38th or 39th surgery. I'm not sure what the record is. If you get to my...
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