This is my 500th blog post. I started blogging, thinking that it may just be a fad for me, but it looks like I may be a lifer. I think my writing has improved a fair amount over the years, from all this practice! My situation has changed dramatically since I started. Basically an entirely …
Yearly Archives: 2009
The trouble with water
The trouble with water is that it likes the lowest point it can find. In my case, it’s the carpeted floor. I am struggling with the overflow box. I found a small pin hole in the top part of the siphon. This only showed when the hole was dry. I guess when it was wet, …
Black light in the living room tank.
I added a black light to the living room 75 gallon aquarium tonight. I had the top of the tank cleared off so I could route longer drain tubing and zip-tie it into the tank so I suffer no more floods.Here I am adding water twcie at the max rate just to test the flow …
Computer Coffee Table
Katie ordered Netflix the end of last week. She was missing TV and we agreed not to get cable until this fall when it got cold out. Netflix is to tide the poor thing over. Well, Netflix has this Instant-watch feature where they stream the video to your computer or whatnot. I just HAD to …
Aqurium Disaster
We woke up Saterday morning to this. Yep, a half empty 75 gallon fish tank. The culprit is somehow my new Overflow Box. It didn’t seem to leak. The only thing I can think of is that one of the the drain tubes (looped back on itself here to test for leaks) was in a …