My little coldwater aquarium of locally-collected critters is burbling along quite nicely. The gudgeon is noticeably bigger than it was when I collected it a week or two ago, and the glass shrimp are doing just fine. A second collecting trip earlier this week produced more glass shrimp and daphnia (the latter of which the gudgeon eats with ( Read more... )

Recently I've aquired a couple of different species of freshwater shrimps for my aquarium, which I find to be a charming addition. I discovered when reading up on them that several kinds of shrimp (including one of the species in my aquarium, glass shrimp (Paratya australiensis, I think)) can be found in local creeks, along with a variety of other ( Read more... )

Extreme Wiring

I've just blown a chunk of last month's SL store profits on a copy of Guitar Hero World Tour. What fun! I'm really loving these music-based games on the Wii, and GHWT looks like it's going to be a total blast, based on one evening of fiddling with it. I shall take my mighty band, Deth Newt, to world stardom, and the world will quake in its boots at ( Read more... )

It's probably very naughty of me to test the miniature r/c submarine I found at a garage sale yesterday in my aquarium, wibbling it up and down the tank, startling the fish and getting it tangled in the plants. But damn, it's fun ( Read more... )

So I've emerged from my nice warm bath. I probably would have stayed in a while longer yet, but Miss Shansu had things to say about it. Things like Haven't you been in there for quite long enough? It's all wet and icky! Why on earth would you stay in there when you could be in a nice warm bed? Come on, bed's much nicer, you know it is! Etc etc etc ( Read more... )

Well, my no-show subject from this morning failed to show again for her session this evening. (This cold, wet, rainy evening. Where I waited, freezing, in a car park for her to not-show.) And just to put the icing on the cake, when I rang her to ask if she wanted to reschedule, I got as far as announcing my name and she hung up on meFeeling ( Read more... )

The very first subject for my data collection was a no-show.

On the bright side, I got to have a pleasant chat with the driving instructor I'm working with while we waited for her to not-show.

What pea-brained cabbage-headed numbskull thought it'd be a good idea to include a feature in banking software that truncates long names????? When would that ever be a good idea? *rolls eyes*

The data collection phase of my research is now starting, and my life is about to go bonkers. The subject recruitment ad is appearing in today's local paper, and with any luck I'll soon be up to my eyeballs in perky volunteers. [/optimism mode ( Read more... )