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Dec. 30th, 2006 01:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I was busy today. I feel productive. But I still, still have not finished most of what I wanted to do.
I did finally change the nasty nasty water in the fishtank where Leviathan died. Pleco has been acting sort of logy, and his color is off-- he's paler than he was before. I thought, he needs clean water. So I finally changed the water. Poor Plecosaurus, however, did not enjoy the experience. I did discover that he is capable of swimming veryveryveryfast. I put him into a bowl while I changed the water and let it settle, and he whipped around and around that bowl. I hope I haven't killed him from stress, but if he survived a journey in a plastic bag, he should be ok to have been in a bowl... right?
But he hasn't eaten his bean, and that worries me.
Anyway, at least he's in clean water now.
I also ran a bunch of errands today, including retrieving the present Z bought Us, which the Post Office was holding hostage in wait for a signature. So that's safely home here. Just waiting for Z, so I can open it.
I also reinflated the car's tires, which I thought were very low. Turns out they were only slightly low, but still. So I got them all up exactly to spec---- and then drove away, leaving the four little black plastic caps that cover the whatsit, the inflation points for the tires, sitting on the back of the car, so they're gone now.
It's not like the tires lose air without them, but the tubes are at risk of getting damaged without them. Maybe I'll just be a dork and steal all the ones off our bikes. It's not like the bikes are getting a lot of play at the moment... Hell, I could steal 'em off the scooter and it'd probably be six months or more before Z so much as noticed, so I'd never even have to tell him what an idiot I am. Hopefully before the weather turns warm again I'll have figured out where one goes to buy just the little cap thingies for tires. I really have no idea.
I went to a party just now where the dude who sold him the scooter was. I got into rollergirls via the scooterists, so the two groups overlap quite a bit. Scooter mechanic's girlfriend is on my team. She'd had quite a bit of wine and was in full-on entertaining mode. She was speaking to another rollergirl about a mutual acquaintance, who she'd dated for seven years. "I remember how we broke up," she said suddenly. "I broke his nose!"
In response to our expressions of astonishment and disbelief, she went on. "Oh yes," she said. "We were sitting there in his car-- parked on the left side of the street, outside my parents' house. I remember. And he said, 'I think I want to be a priest.' And I said, 'Fuck you!' and just punched him right in the nose. And I broke it. And then we didn't talk for over a year."
Yup. Tame ones, these rollergirls.
I did finally change the nasty nasty water in the fishtank where Leviathan died. Pleco has been acting sort of logy, and his color is off-- he's paler than he was before. I thought, he needs clean water. So I finally changed the water. Poor Plecosaurus, however, did not enjoy the experience. I did discover that he is capable of swimming veryveryveryfast. I put him into a bowl while I changed the water and let it settle, and he whipped around and around that bowl. I hope I haven't killed him from stress, but if he survived a journey in a plastic bag, he should be ok to have been in a bowl... right?
But he hasn't eaten his bean, and that worries me.
Anyway, at least he's in clean water now.
I also ran a bunch of errands today, including retrieving the present Z bought Us, which the Post Office was holding hostage in wait for a signature. So that's safely home here. Just waiting for Z, so I can open it.
I also reinflated the car's tires, which I thought were very low. Turns out they were only slightly low, but still. So I got them all up exactly to spec---- and then drove away, leaving the four little black plastic caps that cover the whatsit, the inflation points for the tires, sitting on the back of the car, so they're gone now.
It's not like the tires lose air without them, but the tubes are at risk of getting damaged without them. Maybe I'll just be a dork and steal all the ones off our bikes. It's not like the bikes are getting a lot of play at the moment... Hell, I could steal 'em off the scooter and it'd probably be six months or more before Z so much as noticed, so I'd never even have to tell him what an idiot I am. Hopefully before the weather turns warm again I'll have figured out where one goes to buy just the little cap thingies for tires. I really have no idea.
I went to a party just now where the dude who sold him the scooter was. I got into rollergirls via the scooterists, so the two groups overlap quite a bit. Scooter mechanic's girlfriend is on my team. She'd had quite a bit of wine and was in full-on entertaining mode. She was speaking to another rollergirl about a mutual acquaintance, who she'd dated for seven years. "I remember how we broke up," she said suddenly. "I broke his nose!"
In response to our expressions of astonishment and disbelief, she went on. "Oh yes," she said. "We were sitting there in his car-- parked on the left side of the street, outside my parents' house. I remember. And he said, 'I think I want to be a priest.' And I said, 'Fuck you!' and just punched him right in the nose. And I broke it. And then we didn't talk for over a year."
Yup. Tame ones, these rollergirls.
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Date: 2006-12-30 02:15 pm (UTC)Orrr...maybe she'd had some awful traumatic experience involving a priest, and had told no one about it, but then she trusted him enough to tell him, and so he knew that she could never trust a priest, or was terrified of them all, or something, and then he broke the news and she was so upset that wham!
Urghh...can you just find out the backstory so my imagination can go back to sleep?
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Date: 2006-12-30 09:25 pm (UTC)Also Holly kind of hits people a lot.
And he never even ended up becoming a priest-- he just lives at home with his mom now.
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Date: 2006-12-31 01:56 am (UTC)Ain't that the truth? You never can tell what she's going to do next - very fun as long as you remember to be on your guard!!!!!