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SPIT WATER ALERT!!!

I thought I was the only one....

We shut the pond down today. It was a really rather odd thing. We've never particularly paid any attention to the fish apart from feeding and cleaning, they weren't out project (previous owner who died of cancer 3 years before we bought the house made the system). But somehow, we'll miss them. I'll miss the noise. The over so slight sound of the pump throbbing, the trickle of water from the ornamental mini-river, the splash of one of the fish attempting to fly. I'll miss a lot of the fish too. Many of them were strangely sociable, a fair few loved to be stroked and tickled on their belly. We even discovered a wee little Kumonryu (which looked eerily like a black Kujaku, but being a Doitsu variety, it had the characteristic lack of scales) that had been a fry when it was taken into the filtration unit. Poor little bgger had been fed through underground pipework, through the vortex filter, through the brush filter and one of the two organic filters. Somehow, it had managed to survive in the second organic filter by eating lichens growing on the filtration banks. Amazing little thing.

Even if it wasn't our creation, I'm gonna miss it.

The pond near me is nothing but a breeding ground for mosquitos.

Peace out, y'all! I'm headed to a a resort in the Poconos for a few days with my parents and my sis' family ( ) on my Dad's dime. ( : ) A little swimming, canoeing, maybe I'll learn to shoot skeet, some spa time for a hot-stone massage, and a tap room with 40 single-malts - I'll try to remember Seafort's and Ian's recommendations.

Be good, don't open the door for strangers, and don't have any wild parties (that leave evidence.)

I'd say have a good time Mike, but I think that's a given. So instead, try to come back with everything still attached and working.

Well I actually had to do stuff today at work. Had one of the weekend employees come tell me that his car was missing. In trying to determine what happened to it I found out an interesting and illogical feature of our security camera system. It seems that the system is set up so that the guards can access the short term data storage for the video feed (the last 90 minutes), but not the archive data storage to view video older than that. And of course, it turns out the car was taken more than 90 minutes before he found out about it.* So we both had to make some calls before we found out that the car had been repossessed.

But wait, that's not the end of it. The reason it was repo'd is because the guy had "bought" it from his mother-in-law, and was paying her for the remaining payments on it. Only she wasn't making the payments, she was just pocketing the money. And here's the real kicker, apparently when she started getting the calls demanding payment, she told them it wasn't her problem anymore because it was now her son-in-law's car, and told them where they could go find the car if they wanted it.

And now my boss is pissed about the repo company trespassing on our property to grab the car too, and intends to make a fuss about it to them.

*In my defense less I sound incompetent, the car was snatched before I even got there. Does make me wonder what the hell the previous guard was doing that he didn't notice a tow truck snagging a car that was parked pretty much dead center on one of our camera displays.

Edit: I've also come to realize how little ever actually happens at this post. Normal procedure after having an event like the above is to write up an incident report. I've been here 3+ years now, and this is the first ever of these reports I have to write up...and I have no idea where the hell the form is actually.

The process is the same as a lifeguard, I just hope I never have to write up a report in my time being there,because that usually means that someone is no longer living.

Today a friend of mine is helping me to set up a website for my computer expertise, he knows what he's doing, and I can actually take care of the site, I'm just a little too lazy to set it up.
And while I was lifeguarding I had an interesting conversation with one of the female lifeguards that relieves me (takes the shift after me, no dirty jokes boys) while she was doing laps, turns out I'm a lot more interesting to talk to then about 80% of males in the universe, I guess that's a good thing.

Lighthawk wrote:she told them it wasn't her problem anymore because it was now her son-in-law's car, and told them where they could go find the car if they wanted it.

I guess that this brain-dead poster child for euthanasia doesn't get the fact that in every way that matters, it is her problem.

Well, starting work on a website for my computer stuff, can't wait til it's fully up and running.

Right now Im installing Ubuntu onto a trashed computer someone got to me, I don't know if it'll work because this Compac is so old...
If it does that would be cool.
If not, oh well.

My desktop's mobo fried the moment I tried to launch the first mission of Starcraft II. I am pissed.

Tyyr wrote:My desktop's mobo fried the moment I tried to launch the first mission of Starcraft II. I am pissed.

Seriously? I'd heard stuff about it screwing up people's monitors, but that's just f*cked.

Sue the b*stards. Or at least threaten to, if they won't reimburse you.

I somehow doubt Blizzard is going to buy me a new motherboad.

Same here. Worth a try, though.

Well damn, that sucks.