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I had one of the weirdest dreams ever.

I apparently decided that there was something wrong inside my body. What I cannot remember, but I cut myself open. Inside me my organs were contained within a nice plastic container so I took that out. How that didn’t instantly kill me is a mystery. Apparently satisfied with my efforts I put my plastic container back inside of me and stuck my skin back together. At this point I hit a dilemma – how was I going to sew myself back up? I looked around a bit and couldn’t find a suitable suture set, so I proceeded to go look online for a hospital to go to. At some point I realized one of my arms was sticking out through the hole in my chest, so I proceeded to fix this problem. It seemed like my skin was more like a shirt because it was fairly easy to get my arm back out the right hole. I went back to my quest to find a hospital. This is the point at which I woke up. (yes I realize that I probably have some things mixed up because we are terrible at remembering our dreams)

Since this was a dream obviously nothing needs to make any sense, but one thing that I find amusing is how worried I was about sewing myself back up properly so as to avoid infection, but I wasn’t at all worried about cutting myself open in my room with zero sterilization. Another thing I realized is just how poorly designed the city’s website is for finding emergency information quickly if you’re a foreigner. For some reason I kept getting errors when trying to access the city’s website. Rather odd to be getting 404 errors in your dreams.

Over the past few days I have come up with various things I wanted to write about (usually in the shower for some reason). However, due to my advancing age I keep forgetting what it was I was going to write about by the time I get home from work. I think that this is most unfortunate.

There do however seem to be some advantages to aging. I remember when I was younger I would get far too excited about little things. Now I get far too excited about bigger things.

I haven’t written on this thing in forever! I’ve been recently contemplating a variety of things and realized that I need to start writing more. So I am going to once again attempt to write on this blog at least once a week, though I would prefer to do once a day. We shall see how long I last at this activity.

I’m sure there are 0 people who check this blog and maybe 1 person who still has it in their RSS feed and that’s OK I suppose. If by some odd chance someone is reading this, I have a request. Call me out on any bullshit that I write. That doesn’t mean tell me I’m wrong because you disagree with something I said. What it means is call me out if I commit logical fallacies or make ridiculous statements. If I say something like “All x are y” when I have no way of knowing that to be true, call me out on it.

For whatever reason I keep staying up far later than I should and it is finally catching up so I am going to go to sleep now.

Oh yeah we got the big guns now.

Cleaned the tank today. Did some trimming. Last weekend I got rid of the neons; they’re at a pre-school now being terrorized by evil children. Got about 10 cherry shrimp last weekend, and one unknown shrimp that is odd (which is why I bought it). Got 3 more ottos and 3 more yamato (amano) shrimp yesterday. I’ll have to get some pictures up. See baby shrimp in the tank. Pretty sure they’re from the cherry shrimp since 3 of them had eggs when I got them.

I may have mentioned this previously somewhere, but I am planning on redoing the tank in a couple of weeks. I need to wait for the new canister filter to get broken in before I rip out the old gravel and the ug filter. In the meantime I went to the fish store for about the 3rd time during golden week and I spotted a nice piece of driftwood, so I bought it before someone else stole it on me.

From Tank

That’s about what I’m shooting for in the tank. We shall see if it cooperates with me. I wanted to do something different but no way I can get it to stay in place without doing some very odd stuff that I don’t want to bother with.

Now I just need to figure out what plants I’m going to go with. Some of the current ones are going bye bye for sure.

”I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

His death fixes nothing, and celebrating it proves how far America has fallen.

I forgot to post on here, I got a fish tank. 60cm wide (about the size of an American 20gal tank). Pictures are up on my picasa.
Right now I’m fighting with thread algae on one specific plant. So I did the rational thing today and pull the plants out and ripped all of the leaves off most of that particular plant. I left a few leaves because I didn’t see any algae or feel it on the leaves. That stuff was extremely slimy and you could feel it when the plants were out of the water. The thing that was most annoying is it seemed to be dead (turned white a while ago), but continued to stick to the plants and not come off no matter how hard I tried to take it off manually. I hate algae when it gets where I don’t want it. Of course it’s asinine to hate the algae just because I don’t want it in my tank.
I guess now that I took this extreme measure I can start feeding my mollys. I got one specifically so she would eat that stuff and while she did pick at it a little bit, she mostly ignored it. However, since I kind of like how she looks I got a male too. Maybe I’ll end up with more of them in the future. Maybe I’ll take them back. The fish store got a bunch of golden rams in today and I really wanted some, so maybe I’ll have to get a few. They’re really young and they just go them so I’m going to wait a few weeks before I get any if I do.
Well that’s all for now. Maybe I’ll start writing a tank log or something.

Apparently I can write posts from word now. That’s interesting. Not sure if I care but it might encourage me to write more? Maybe.

I am lazy. Haven’t written anything on here in 8-9 months? Oops.

For anyone who doesn’t know I’m in Japan and have been here since the end of June. So far things are pretty good. Oddly Hokkaido is far more “wisconsin” like than I had anticipated. Which is unfortunate because I hate winter and that is what I’m enjoying at the moment. Nothing like moving halfway around the world to experience the same horseshit you left behind.

That is all. I probably won’t post anything on here any time soon because as the title says, I’m lazy.