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We always had money and didn't know that we were poor. (My dad died when I was 10) Money was all over the place if you were not a Jiboni. After a softball game there were empty bottles scattered on the ground. You got 2 cents for a small bottle and a nickel for a big one. You made a buck or two...

The book is here. Reader Review: The Avant-Garde Marine Aquarist But all the information is on these forums. I don't think the book is still on an E Book and I have not paid any attention to that. (I also don't know how to re instate that. I think it is still on Amazon in a paperback, or...

Diana my cousin built a home near where I live now which was all forest then in the 50s. He even dug the basement with the help of his friends. They used shovels and wheelbarrows. He was on the Ed Sullivan show for that as he built it when he was 16. The house is still there. Thank you...

This reminds me of a story. Everything reminds me of a story and 10 years ago I may have posted this on here. When I was about 14 or so I lived in Queens New York. At that time it was mostly empty lots and I used to walk through them to go to school. (Now Queens is more crowded than midtown...

No, I used to live under a freight car and look for handouts. Last night I noticed one of my long growing corals bleached and croaked. Another one has a bleached part so I had to look for a test kit. I found an alk kit but I think it is old because it’s in a wooden box . I used it anyway...

Sponge, that's not Witt. It's senility and the fact that I am not a snowflake. :)

A little while ago I took out my bicycle. I am supposed to ride the thing to exercise the knee, and the rest of me. I used to swim 3 times a week then after a few silly, but manly surgeries I had to give up swimming. Now I can do it again, but it is 20 degrees and my boat is in a snow drift...

I have been feeding an awful lot since I moved and now my nitrates creeped up to about 20, which is fine. Before I moved here I built a Sulphur denitrator just for an experiment but I never used it. It is a cool looking thing and I think, if I get time I will fire it up as an experiment. I...

Services will be held at "Mandarins Only Funeral Home" at 6:00pm in the back of the New York Aquarium. He will be interred in the Long Island Sewer system with all the appropriate honors of a fish with such distinction. He was a faithful and loyal friend. :cool:

So I went away for 2 days and last night after I came home I found my male Mandarin dead. This is very unusual because I never find a dead fish and my fish don't get sick. I "think" I saw him eating a few days ago but I didn't notice anything weird with him as he was full bodied and smiled a...

Diana, my hermit crabs have canker sores older then you. :D

I moved it three times, the last move was 8 months ago. I moved 60 miles and transferred everything from my old 100 gallon tank into a new 125 gallon tank. The old tank was 40 years old and the front was very scratched. I wanted a larger tank anyway and that old one was built into a wall and...

I just finished my new motorized Steam Punk lamp. It has a "fire" inside and when you turn the valve handles, it winds the mechanism on the Grand Fathers clock and spins the gears and tiny bicycle chain for about 5 minutes. The right valve handle moves the gong hammer. It can be dimmed. Video

Yesterday we went to the City to see the Grand Kids. That was uneventful, but when we got home My package arrived. It was a strip LED light for over my kitchen cabinets. (not everything is for fish tanks) I ran the electric up there a few days ago (I know an electrician ) So I installed the...

We are in this new home and our tastes changed a lot since we were young during the Cretaceous period. We always had modern. I wanted my house to look like the StarShip Enterprise. I already look like Capt. Picard so what the heck. But now we are going for more industrial/Steampunk. We were...

Church Ladies With Computers.... They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with computers. These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services: -------------------------- The Fasting &...

I should have done this myself because this is what happens when you hire someone. If you want it done right, you should do it yourself. The only reason I didn't do that is that I need two hands to use the saw to cut out my old knee and I also need two hands to put my fingers in my ears...

I just came back from the Knee guy and it seems only 1 or 2% of his patients get this. Guess which percent I am? He said it is rare and I got a bad case of it. Thats Great!!!. I wanted to be in the One percent with this. It seems that a ligament that runs along side your knee is rubbing up...

Tomorrow I have an emergency visit with my knee doctor. At this point I am supposed to be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, or at least walk around a Hardware store looking for a nose ring. But after about 50 yards, the thing locks up and I start walking like Neil Armstrong on the...

I just fed my tank and unfortunately I have nothing to write. I wish something would have a spot or a black area, sucking air from the surface, tumor, strange growth from it's ear, Carpal tunnel syndrome, irritable bowel disease, something. But I got nothing. My mandarins are still fat and...