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Paul B
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Well yesterday wasn't a great day. Our handicapped elevator that I had installed for my wife croaked. As I was trying to repair it I heard my wife scream. She was opening an Amazon box with a big butcher knife and cut her hand right across the knuckle.
She needed stitches but I couldn't get her down the flight of stairs.
I managed to get her down with a neighbor which was difficult as she can't really walk and couldn't use her right hand to hold on because she was dripping blood and had to hold her hand up.
Of course I bandaged it but it was a deep cut so the bleeding wouldn't stop.
We managed to get her down and I took her to a Doc in the Box where they gave her 3 stitches.
Then I managed to get her back up the stairs and except for the elevator and some blood, all is well once more.
She needed stitches but I couldn't get her down the flight of stairs.
I managed to get her down with a neighbor which was difficult as she can't really walk and couldn't use her right hand to hold on because she was dripping blood and had to hold her hand up.
Of course I bandaged it but it was a deep cut so the bleeding wouldn't stop.
We managed to get her down and I took her to a Doc in the Box where they gave her 3 stitches.
Then I managed to get her back up the stairs and except for the elevator and some blood, all is well once more.
Paul B
NJRC Member
Good morning. It is a beautiful morning but I didn't get to go on my morning walk today. About 4:00 this morning, I heard my wife scream, and I found her on the floor. This is happening more and more now as MS doesn't get any better. If I knew she was going to get this disease I would have been a researcher because I'm sure I could cure this.
With a hundred years and billions of dollars, they are no closer to find a cure which I find "interesting" .
I don't know where all that money goes but I feel it was wasted. All the drug companies can come up with is a dozen or so very expensive medications that obviously don't work.
I realize there is little money in cures and billions in treatments but it is disheartening at the least. I don't think there is a treatment or cure for any neurological disease and nothing on the horizon.
Anyway, my wife is not heavy but I cant lift her any more. I think between my age, and some of my 38 or so surgeries on my shoulders, knees and back kind of screwed me up in that department.
Since she can't move her right leg at all and her right hand is weak, she can't get up or even get into a position where I can help her up.
After 15 or 20 minutes on the floor I managed to get her up on the bed. So at 4:30 it didn't pay to try to get back to sleep. I hope tonight is better.
My reef tank still looks like an algae farm and I don't even have the time to clean it or feed them every day.
But they will get over it and the algae will abate on it's own and all will be good again.
53 years ago.
With a hundred years and billions of dollars, they are no closer to find a cure which I find "interesting" .
I don't know where all that money goes but I feel it was wasted. All the drug companies can come up with is a dozen or so very expensive medications that obviously don't work.
I realize there is little money in cures and billions in treatments but it is disheartening at the least. I don't think there is a treatment or cure for any neurological disease and nothing on the horizon.
Anyway, my wife is not heavy but I cant lift her any more. I think between my age, and some of my 38 or so surgeries on my shoulders, knees and back kind of screwed me up in that department.
Since she can't move her right leg at all and her right hand is weak, she can't get up or even get into a position where I can help her up.
After 15 or 20 minutes on the floor I managed to get her up on the bed. So at 4:30 it didn't pay to try to get back to sleep. I hope tonight is better.
My reef tank still looks like an algae farm and I don't even have the time to clean it or feed them every day.
But they will get over it and the algae will abate on it's own and all will be good again.
53 years ago.
reefsandrotts
NJRC Member
Very sorry to read this Paul
Paul B
NJRC Member
I think I posted this 10 years ago. But it could have been this morning.
Fish are Smarter than We Are
Why do I say that fish are smarter than us? Well, think about it, we as 2 legged beings can go forward, backward, and from side to side. Fish can do that too, but they can also go up and down, and they can do that just by thinking about it and barely moving a fin. If we get up in the middle of the night because we hear a noise or are thinking about that Victoria Secret catalog on the table (not that we would look at something like that, I am just using that as an example and I know if you ever did look at it, it would purely be for research) But whatever the reason, we would run into walls, doors, windows and the lucky few of us may run into a beautiful cat burgler. But a fish would not run (or swim) into anything. Why? Because they have a lateral line that lets them know what is around them even in pitch darkness. Ever wonder why you could never catch a fish by chasing it with a net? If someone ran after you with a net, I bet they would catch you.
Everybody here who has a lateral line raise your hand, Higher. Thats what I thought.
Have you ever gone fishing, and you sit there all day putting worms on a hook and you don't get one bite? Then you get disquested and throw the rest of your worms in the water thinking that all the fish must have gone to a Myley Cyrus concert only to see 47 fish come up to devour all the worms you just dumped in. It happens all the time. They know there is a hook in there. But how?
Fish can do something else that "most" of us can't do. They can change sex. Then, if they get bored, they can change back. If we do that, it is very painful, (I would imagine) only works one time, is very expensive and leaves scars, (I think anyway, not that I know anything about that or am judging anyone)
I have some fireclown fish, well I had one for a long time and I decided to get another one.
That first one was either male or female, I have no idea, But then again I rode the Long Island Railroad for 40 years and many times I wasn't sure if I was next to a man or woman, but I digress. This fireclown sat there in a broken bottle for years and just looked out the glass at me. He (or she) kept guard over a nest and he would keep it neat, blow away detritus along with arrow crab poop. And there wasn't even another fireclown for, Oh I don't know 15 miles (I am guessing) Then one day I added another fireclown and they both fought. I don't know if they both thought of themselves as boys, girls or politicians, but then after a few years they started becoming friends, then they were more then friends if you know what I mean. So one of them became a female. (I could tell by her eyelashes and she started to smell better) Now I don't know what possessed that one to change into a female, but I do remember walking in front of the tank in my underwear. I don't know if that would have caused the transformation; my wife just tells me to get away from the front of the TV.
So fish are not as stupid as we think. If you had no thumbs to hold a pencil, how well do you think you would do on standardized tests?
Remember, we spend thousands of dollars on fish, then spend more thousands on rocks, then spend hundreds on medications, test kits, books, etc. Then we spend $12.00 for tiny cubes of clam or mysis to feed them. What did a fish ever do for you? Nothing right! Except die, jump out or get ich, Pop Eye or swim bladder disease.
Fish can do many things that we can't do. If we put some food in the tank, they will find it right away, I can't even find anything my wife puts in the refrigerator.
If a fish loses an eye, he barely notices and goes about his life as if he just had Lazac surgery. They get along fine just by relying on their lateral line. Fish don't even have to sleep, if we go like 3 days with out sleep we start hallucinating about Paris Hilton or worse, her dog, but if you leave the lights on, a fish will just stay awake and, Oh I don't know, think about changing sex.
Another weird thing about fish is that tropical fish, for the most part, are beautifully colored. Why is that? Is it to attract a mate? to scare predators? to look good in magazines? No. Why? Because where fish live, the only color you can see is blue. If you decend down in the ocean about 40' everything becomes blue because blue is the only color of the spectrum that gets through that much water. (It is either 30' 40' or something like that, I am a diver but I never take a rueller with me and I forgot the depth that colors disappear, work with me here)
So all fish appear blue in the sea.
A copperband butterfly would be blue with darker blue bands, and red appears black. (I got a moray eel story with blood and all so if you didn't hear it, remind me) So their color is a mystery. The fish probably know why they have those colors but no one else does. Yes, I realize some people think they know, but trust me, They don't, and some people think they know everything.
Also while we are seriously thinking about this, why do fish from temperate (or cold water) have drab colors?
Ever see a bright red or blue flounder with yellow stripes? I didn't think so, but why not? I don't know, but I bet you never thought about it. I did. Think about it, people from tropical countries are not bright purple, yellow and blue, but tropical fish are. People from New York, Alaska and Greenland are the same colors as people from every where else. Why are fish so special?
Why are there no copperband butterflies in Florida? You would think with all the bilge water from ships some of them would get here as invasive species. But no, what do we get for invasive species? Snakeheads that eat everything imaginable, carp, that invaded every river, stream, brook, lake, sink, bathtub and coffee pot everywhere in the world. Those things could live on a damp sponge. Zebra mussles that clog pipes and taste like snot, Japanese shore crabs that snuck into every square inch of coastline on the eastern US, and lionfish that are eating all the small native fish. So why can't we get invasive copperband butterflies, square anthias, sailfin tangs, bangai cardinals, mandarins, ruby red dragonettes or Swedish Supermodels?
This is just one more thing I don't know. There is a whole plethora of things I don't know. An unimaginable vast expanse of knowledge I don't possess. I mean we could go on about what is at the end of the universe and we would all have different opinions, sort of like ich threads. I think at the end of the universe is a brick wall with tar paper on top of it, and beyond that are strawberry fields forever. Prove me wrong.
I guess we should save some room for your thoughts and then we could start on why invertebrates are smarter than we are. Well, smarter than "some" of us anyway.
Fish are Smarter than We Are
Why do I say that fish are smarter than us? Well, think about it, we as 2 legged beings can go forward, backward, and from side to side. Fish can do that too, but they can also go up and down, and they can do that just by thinking about it and barely moving a fin. If we get up in the middle of the night because we hear a noise or are thinking about that Victoria Secret catalog on the table (not that we would look at something like that, I am just using that as an example and I know if you ever did look at it, it would purely be for research) But whatever the reason, we would run into walls, doors, windows and the lucky few of us may run into a beautiful cat burgler. But a fish would not run (or swim) into anything. Why? Because they have a lateral line that lets them know what is around them even in pitch darkness. Ever wonder why you could never catch a fish by chasing it with a net? If someone ran after you with a net, I bet they would catch you.
Everybody here who has a lateral line raise your hand, Higher. Thats what I thought.
Have you ever gone fishing, and you sit there all day putting worms on a hook and you don't get one bite? Then you get disquested and throw the rest of your worms in the water thinking that all the fish must have gone to a Myley Cyrus concert only to see 47 fish come up to devour all the worms you just dumped in. It happens all the time. They know there is a hook in there. But how?
Fish can do something else that "most" of us can't do. They can change sex. Then, if they get bored, they can change back. If we do that, it is very painful, (I would imagine) only works one time, is very expensive and leaves scars, (I think anyway, not that I know anything about that or am judging anyone)
I have some fireclown fish, well I had one for a long time and I decided to get another one.
That first one was either male or female, I have no idea, But then again I rode the Long Island Railroad for 40 years and many times I wasn't sure if I was next to a man or woman, but I digress. This fireclown sat there in a broken bottle for years and just looked out the glass at me. He (or she) kept guard over a nest and he would keep it neat, blow away detritus along with arrow crab poop. And there wasn't even another fireclown for, Oh I don't know 15 miles (I am guessing) Then one day I added another fireclown and they both fought. I don't know if they both thought of themselves as boys, girls or politicians, but then after a few years they started becoming friends, then they were more then friends if you know what I mean. So one of them became a female. (I could tell by her eyelashes and she started to smell better) Now I don't know what possessed that one to change into a female, but I do remember walking in front of the tank in my underwear. I don't know if that would have caused the transformation; my wife just tells me to get away from the front of the TV.
So fish are not as stupid as we think. If you had no thumbs to hold a pencil, how well do you think you would do on standardized tests?
Remember, we spend thousands of dollars on fish, then spend more thousands on rocks, then spend hundreds on medications, test kits, books, etc. Then we spend $12.00 for tiny cubes of clam or mysis to feed them. What did a fish ever do for you? Nothing right! Except die, jump out or get ich, Pop Eye or swim bladder disease.
Fish can do many things that we can't do. If we put some food in the tank, they will find it right away, I can't even find anything my wife puts in the refrigerator.
If a fish loses an eye, he barely notices and goes about his life as if he just had Lazac surgery. They get along fine just by relying on their lateral line. Fish don't even have to sleep, if we go like 3 days with out sleep we start hallucinating about Paris Hilton or worse, her dog, but if you leave the lights on, a fish will just stay awake and, Oh I don't know, think about changing sex.
Another weird thing about fish is that tropical fish, for the most part, are beautifully colored. Why is that? Is it to attract a mate? to scare predators? to look good in magazines? No. Why? Because where fish live, the only color you can see is blue. If you decend down in the ocean about 40' everything becomes blue because blue is the only color of the spectrum that gets through that much water. (It is either 30' 40' or something like that, I am a diver but I never take a rueller with me and I forgot the depth that colors disappear, work with me here)
So all fish appear blue in the sea.
A copperband butterfly would be blue with darker blue bands, and red appears black. (I got a moray eel story with blood and all so if you didn't hear it, remind me) So their color is a mystery. The fish probably know why they have those colors but no one else does. Yes, I realize some people think they know, but trust me, They don't, and some people think they know everything.
Also while we are seriously thinking about this, why do fish from temperate (or cold water) have drab colors?
Ever see a bright red or blue flounder with yellow stripes? I didn't think so, but why not? I don't know, but I bet you never thought about it. I did. Think about it, people from tropical countries are not bright purple, yellow and blue, but tropical fish are. People from New York, Alaska and Greenland are the same colors as people from every where else. Why are fish so special?
Why are there no copperband butterflies in Florida? You would think with all the bilge water from ships some of them would get here as invasive species. But no, what do we get for invasive species? Snakeheads that eat everything imaginable, carp, that invaded every river, stream, brook, lake, sink, bathtub and coffee pot everywhere in the world. Those things could live on a damp sponge. Zebra mussles that clog pipes and taste like snot, Japanese shore crabs that snuck into every square inch of coastline on the eastern US, and lionfish that are eating all the small native fish. So why can't we get invasive copperband butterflies, square anthias, sailfin tangs, bangai cardinals, mandarins, ruby red dragonettes or Swedish Supermodels?
This is just one more thing I don't know. There is a whole plethora of things I don't know. An unimaginable vast expanse of knowledge I don't possess. I mean we could go on about what is at the end of the universe and we would all have different opinions, sort of like ich threads. I think at the end of the universe is a brick wall with tar paper on top of it, and beyond that are strawberry fields forever. Prove me wrong.
I guess we should save some room for your thoughts and then we could start on why invertebrates are smarter than we are. Well, smarter than "some" of us anyway.
Sorry to hear this, hang in there.Good morning. It is a beautiful morning but I didn't get to go on my morning walk today. About 4:00 this morning, I heard my wife scream, and I found her on the floor. This is happening more and more now as MS doesn't get any better. If I knew she was going to get this disease I would have been a researcher because I'm sure I could cure this.
With a hundred years and billions of dollars, they are no closer to find a cure which I find "interesting" .
I don't know where all that money goes but I feel it was wasted. All the drug companies can come up with is a dozen or so very expensive medications that obviously don't work.
I realize there is little money in cures and billions in treatments but it is disheartening at the least. I don't think there is a treatment or cure for any neurological disease and nothing on the horizon.
Anyway, my wife is not heavy but I cant lift her any more. I think between my age, and some of my 38 or so surgeries on my shoulders, knees and back kind of screwed me up in that department.
Since she can't move her right leg at all and her right hand is weak, she can't get up or even get into a position where I can help her up.
After 15 or 20 minutes on the floor I managed to get her up on the bed. So at 4:30 it didn't pay to try to get back to sleep. I hope tonight is better.
My reef tank still looks like an algae farm and I don't even have the time to clean it or feed them every day.
But they will get over it and the algae will abate on it's own and all will be good again.
53 years ago.
Paul B
NJRC Member
Unfortunately, my wife fell again, but this time she was able to get up on her own as she didn't go all the way down. She hit her eye on the vanity and now looks like someone beat her up as it is all black and blue. It never ends.
I don't have a lot of time to "play" with my tank but I just scraped the excess algae off the algae scrubber.
Many people worry if they have a little green color on a rock and want to take down their tank. Look at this:
Now thats algae. It is growing on everything and is due to me changing water with Long Island Sound water which I have been doing for decades, but sometimes it is after a rain and farms surround us, mostly sod farms and golf courses which go right up to the Sound.
I must have gotten a good dose of fertilizer to make this stuff grow like this. I could make a nice salad every day.
I suck out this much every day using my DIY Diatom filter without the powder. I don't need powder for algae.
The stuff is dying in droves and has been for a few weeks so there must have been an enormous amount of fertilizer in that seawater. Probably insecticide and weed killer too.
This has happened before and I don't worry about it. It is as it should be and the algae will abate leaving the water pristine and healthy. Of course my corals are not happy but they will just have to get over it. My fish love it and many are spawning.
It's all just part of the fabulous hobby. If I was concerned about these events, I would have gotten a different hobby, maybe something like trying to guess the phone numbers of Super Models.
Unfortunately, I accidently sucked up my Dragon faced Pipefish into the filter. I saved him and he is fine, if not very mad at me.
I don't have a lot of time to "play" with my tank but I just scraped the excess algae off the algae scrubber.
Many people worry if they have a little green color on a rock and want to take down their tank. Look at this:
Now thats algae. It is growing on everything and is due to me changing water with Long Island Sound water which I have been doing for decades, but sometimes it is after a rain and farms surround us, mostly sod farms and golf courses which go right up to the Sound.
I must have gotten a good dose of fertilizer to make this stuff grow like this. I could make a nice salad every day.
I suck out this much every day using my DIY Diatom filter without the powder. I don't need powder for algae.
The stuff is dying in droves and has been for a few weeks so there must have been an enormous amount of fertilizer in that seawater. Probably insecticide and weed killer too.
This has happened before and I don't worry about it. It is as it should be and the algae will abate leaving the water pristine and healthy. Of course my corals are not happy but they will just have to get over it. My fish love it and many are spawning.
It's all just part of the fabulous hobby. If I was concerned about these events, I would have gotten a different hobby, maybe something like trying to guess the phone numbers of Super Models.
Unfortunately, I accidently sucked up my Dragon faced Pipefish into the filter. I saved him and he is fine, if not very mad at me.
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Nice saveUnfortunately, my wife fell again, but this time she was able to get up on her own as she didn't go all the way down. She hit her eye on the vanity and now looks like someone beat her up as it is all black and blue. It never ends.
I don't have a lot of time to "play" with my tank but I just scraped the excess algae off the algae scrubber.
Many people worry if they have a little green color on a rock and want to take down their tank. Look at this:
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Now thats algae. It is growing on everything and is due to me changing water with Long Island Sound water which I have been doing for decades, but sometimes it is after a rain and farms surround us, mostly sod farms and golf courses which go right up to the Sound.
I must have gotten a good dose of fertilizer to make this stuff grow like this. I could make a nice salad every day.
I suck out this much every day using my DIY Diatom filter without the powder. I don't need powder for algae.
View attachment 58051
The stuff is dying in droves and has been for a few weeks so there must have been an enormous amount of fertilizer in that seawater. Probably insecticide and weed killer too.
This has happened before and I don't worry about it. It is as it should be and the algae will abate leaving the water pristine and healthy. Of course my corals are not happy but they will just have to get over it. My fish love it and many are spawning.
It's all just part of the fabulous hobby. If I was concerned about these events, I would have gotten a different hobby, maybe something like trying to guess the phone numbers of Super Models.
Unfortunately, I accidently sucked up my Dragon faced Pipefish into the filter. I saved him and he is fine, if not very mad at me.
Paul B
NJRC Member
Nice beach walk this morning. It was a dead, moon low tide. But no amphipods. It may be a little early in the season but those dead low tides only happen maybe twice a summer at the time I walk the beach, so I hope the amphipods return soon.
They may be a little to cold or worrying about the tariffs but I want to see millions soon
They may be a little to cold or worrying about the tariffs but I want to see millions soon
Paul B
NJRC Member
It rained last night so on my early morning walk I went armed with a plastic bag and tweezer. I picked up about a dozen earthworms.
The tweezer just makes it easier to pick them up on the wet street. I slip one side of the tweezer under the worm and lift. No, I don't skeve worms and have no issues picking them up, but they look so delicious, if I had them in my hand, I may eat some.
I store them in my wife's underwear drawer.
I will chop them up into bits size pieces and my fish will love me. I have been feeding my fish worms since Eisenhower was President. Google him.
The tweezer just makes it easier to pick them up on the wet street. I slip one side of the tweezer under the worm and lift. No, I don't skeve worms and have no issues picking them up, but they look so delicious, if I had them in my hand, I may eat some.
I store them in my wife's underwear drawer.
I will chop them up into bits size pieces and my fish will love me. I have been feeding my fish worms since Eisenhower was President. Google him.
Paul B
NJRC Member
Next week I have an appointment with a shoulder surgeon. He replaced my left shoulder but now my right shoulder is jealous so I'm pretty sure I will have to get the right one replaced. I lost count but I think this will be my 38th surgery.
If you get to my age and didn't break or tear most of your bones and tendons, you didn't work hard enough or have enough fun.
I will try to do this soon, in the summer when all my friends are here in case I need help with my wife. (which I know I will). She falls a lot and I have trouble helping her up now, but with two bad shoulders, It will be "interesting" to say the least.
She also can't do almost anything and I will be useless for a while. More useless than I normally am.
If you get to my age and didn't break or tear most of your bones and tendons, you didn't work hard enough or have enough fun.
I will try to do this soon, in the summer when all my friends are here in case I need help with my wife. (which I know I will). She falls a lot and I have trouble helping her up now, but with two bad shoulders, It will be "interesting" to say the least.
She also can't do almost anything and I will be useless for a while. More useless than I normally am.
Paul B
NJRC Member
We have a new Pope but there was a Cardinal named Cardinal Acola, who kept getting passed over for the Pope position so he asked the head Cardinals what they thought the problem was.
The Head Cardinal said to him. My Son, how would it look if we had a Pope named after a soft drink? Pope Acola
The Head Cardinal said to him. My Son, how would it look if we had a Pope named after a soft drink? Pope Acola
Paul B
NJRC Member
First off, Happy Mothers day.
On my morning beach walk at low tide I came across this double hook set up with fresh sand worms already baited and a 3 ounce sinker.
I brought it home and threw it in my tank as my fish haven't seen a fresh salt water sand worm in years so they will have a really Happy Mothers day.
I have way more hooks and sinkers that I will ever use and I got most of them either finding them on the beach or SCUBA diving. Here in New York the visibility is measured in inches and we have an inordinate amount of sunken ships, piers, pilings and Oldsmobiles so there is a lot of fishing tackle tangled, No Scaredy cats allowed.
On my morning beach walk at low tide I came across this double hook set up with fresh sand worms already baited and a 3 ounce sinker.
I brought it home and threw it in my tank as my fish haven't seen a fresh salt water sand worm in years so they will have a really Happy Mothers day.
I have way more hooks and sinkers that I will ever use and I got most of them either finding them on the beach or SCUBA diving. Here in New York the visibility is measured in inches and we have an inordinate amount of sunken ships, piers, pilings and Oldsmobiles so there is a lot of fishing tackle tangled, No Scaredy cats allowed.
Any bodies in those Old Mobiles?? ? HahaFirst off, Happy Mothers day.
On my morning beach walk at low tide I came across this double hook set up with fresh sand worms already baited and a 3 ounce sinker.
I brought it home and threw it in my tank as my fish haven't seen a fresh salt water sand worm in years so they will have a really Happy Mothers day.
I have way more hooks and sinkers that I will ever use and I got most of them either finding them on the beach or SCUBA diving. Here in New York the visibility is measured in inches and we have an inordinate amount of sunken ships, piers, pilings and Oldsmobiles so there is a lot of fishing tackle tangled, No Scaredy cats allowed.
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Paul B
NJRC Member
This weekend we went to our daughter's house because our 12-year-old Grand Daughter was in a play.
This is the view from my Daughters house
(I hate Manhattan)
Anyway, this is my granddaughter getting her makeup on for the play. She thinks she is one of the Rockettes.
Here she is in the play. The play was Shrek
And after
As we were waiting outside this tiny woman walks up to me with a small shopping cart filled with an Electrolux vacuum cleaner and the hoses and associated pipes. She wanted to know if anyone could fix a vacuum. On the street in Manhattan.
Anyway, from a strap around her neck laying on her stomach she had what looked like a curved 5 gallon fish tank with holes in it. I looked close and she had a parrot in there. I have seen parrots in cages but never in a fish tank. The poor thing was laying on the bottom of the tank because it didn't have a perch.
The woman was asking everyone if they could guess how old this bird was. I really didn't care because I was there for my Grand Daughter so I said 70 years. My wife guessed 50 and our Daughter said 40. She said "you are all wrong" it's 35.
OK, like who cares. Then she asked me if I wanted to photograph her with this parrot. I said, "No". Then she asked a few other people, and no one really cared to take a picture of this Ferengi-looking woman with this stupid bird, as we were all waiting for our kid's performance and didn't want to fix her vacuum cleaner or look at the stupid bird. Most of us have seen a bird before.
She was surprised, as she said she travels all over the place, is very famous, and people all want to take pictures of her and this bored-looking bird. It looked like the bird was trying to stick its claw down its throat to make itself puke.
You only see these crazy people in Manhattan.
After the play we went to an eclectic restaurant where I ordered a tiny "cup" of French Onion soup that cost $18.00. Maybe they mailed the onions from France. My Grand Son got some very small pieces of steak that you could get in Burger Kind for four bucks but there it was $45.00
The Uber cost me over $300.00 round trip.
This is the view from my Daughters house
(I hate Manhattan)
Anyway, this is my granddaughter getting her makeup on for the play. She thinks she is one of the Rockettes.Here she is in the play. The play was Shrek
And after
As we were waiting outside this tiny woman walks up to me with a small shopping cart filled with an Electrolux vacuum cleaner and the hoses and associated pipes. She wanted to know if anyone could fix a vacuum. On the street in Manhattan.
Anyway, from a strap around her neck laying on her stomach she had what looked like a curved 5 gallon fish tank with holes in it. I looked close and she had a parrot in there. I have seen parrots in cages but never in a fish tank. The poor thing was laying on the bottom of the tank because it didn't have a perch.
The woman was asking everyone if they could guess how old this bird was. I really didn't care because I was there for my Grand Daughter so I said 70 years. My wife guessed 50 and our Daughter said 40. She said "you are all wrong" it's 35.
OK, like who cares. Then she asked me if I wanted to photograph her with this parrot. I said, "No". Then she asked a few other people, and no one really cared to take a picture of this Ferengi-looking woman with this stupid bird, as we were all waiting for our kid's performance and didn't want to fix her vacuum cleaner or look at the stupid bird. Most of us have seen a bird before.
She was surprised, as she said she travels all over the place, is very famous, and people all want to take pictures of her and this bored-looking bird. It looked like the bird was trying to stick its claw down its throat to make itself puke.
You only see these crazy people in Manhattan.
After the play we went to an eclectic restaurant where I ordered a tiny "cup" of French Onion soup that cost $18.00. Maybe they mailed the onions from France. My Grand Son got some very small pieces of steak that you could get in Burger Kind for four bucks but there it was $45.00
The Uber cost me over $300.00 round trip.
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Paul B
NJRC Member
No. Not really.
