This evening, I caught a pair of my Bolivian rams breeding. What I actually noticed was a pretty active fight between a ram and a bristlenose pleco. I grabbed my camera and put together a little video to share. If you already know all about ram breeding, please ignore the… Continue reading
It’s been a week now that I have been on this new low-sodium diet. It’s taking some getting used to, but I have discovered a couple of really good recipes. Just this morning, I bought my first bread machine. Bread without salt is difficult because salt acts as a leavening… Continue reading
It was a difficult week for me, with the blood pressure issues and a holiday weekend with weather cool enough to work in the yard. I only managed 5642 words this week, with several really bad days carried by a couple of days around 2000 words. Twice, I logged a… Continue reading
In case anyone is wondering what I’m keeping, here are a few photos I snapped this evening. Don’t mind the reflections, I was taking snapshots, not portraits. First up is a pair of freshwater angelfish. Next, a few false penguin tetras. Some Bolivian rams hanging out by the sponge filter…. Continue reading
There are three things in fishkeeping that reek something awful. Two of them I deal with from time to time, the other doesn’t happen in my tanks. #3 Stinky fishkeeping odor – Unmaintained tank. Whenever the water turns green, you have somebody too lazy or too busy to take care… Continue reading
I am very excited to have the awesome local artist Gilead working on the cover art for my forthcoming novel Fishpunk. Here is the proposal sketch for the cover art, which I think looks awesome. I can’t wait to see the finished goods, and I can’t wait to get this… Continue reading
Betta splendens The betta is a popular fish, mainly because it can be contained in small quarters. I wrote an essay on betta housing in April, you can see it here. Bloat & Constipation Unfortunately, since bettas have been in captivity forever, and have lost a lot of their ability… Continue reading
Yesterday was a pretty frustrating day all around. I don’t normally talk about my personal health issues here, but this is such a biggie that I thought others could benefit. Over the past few months, I have felt blood pressure problems, which was kind of scary because I never had… Continue reading
Progress continues on the novel A Darkling Nine. I nearly hit my weekly quota despite being sick for much of the week. I finished with 11846 words for the week vs a target of 12250. After the third week, the novel stands at 32,428 of a projected 110,000 words total.
Here are some photographs from today’s partial solar eclipse. We weren’t able to drive up to Flagstaff to see the annular eclipse, so we settled for what we could see in our front yard. Not bad. This is the closest I’ve seen to totality. The eclipse does make some interesting… Continue reading
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