Friday, February 03, 2006
Friday Posting!
So, Friday is here and I'm updating, just as promised.
The only thing on my mind right now is how mindblowingly awesome my fish are...I got them yesterday and waaaay too much of my free time has been spent staring at their fishy glory. So far they have been alive for 27 hours in my care, which is a personal record for goldfish. I totally have an excuse for my previous track record...record...record...
(screen ripples)
See, I was about 5 or 6 years old...and I was at the Del Mar fair in San Diego. You know the game with the glass cups and fishes? I totally pimped that shit. My little ping pong ball got one with TWO FISH in it. I WAS AMAZING. The fish were amazing, too. I don't remember their names, but if I were to hazard a guess I'm thinking one was Goldy. The other might have been Fish or something. I happily watched them swim about in their little bag as my parents somewhat grudgingly swung by a pet store on the way home to get a bowl.
They were dead when I woke up the next morning. I was traumatized.
That afternoon, we went and got two new fish...those too died the next morning. This continued for a week straight, until my parents convinced me to give it up...either that or the pet store refused to sell them any more fish. I'm not clear on the matter.
(screen ripples back to me)
What I eventually figured out was that the water was probably chlorinated...fish don't like that too much. Anyway, I've wanted an aquarium for a really long time and now my dreams have come true. It has been a good week.
¶ 2:50 PM
The only thing on my mind right now is how mindblowingly awesome my fish are...I got them yesterday and waaaay too much of my free time has been spent staring at their fishy glory. So far they have been alive for 27 hours in my care, which is a personal record for goldfish. I totally have an excuse for my previous track record...record...record...
(screen ripples)
See, I was about 5 or 6 years old...and I was at the Del Mar fair in San Diego. You know the game with the glass cups and fishes? I totally pimped that shit. My little ping pong ball got one with TWO FISH in it. I WAS AMAZING. The fish were amazing, too. I don't remember their names, but if I were to hazard a guess I'm thinking one was Goldy. The other might have been Fish or something. I happily watched them swim about in their little bag as my parents somewhat grudgingly swung by a pet store on the way home to get a bowl.
They were dead when I woke up the next morning. I was traumatized.
That afternoon, we went and got two new fish...those too died the next morning. This continued for a week straight, until my parents convinced me to give it up...either that or the pet store refused to sell them any more fish. I'm not clear on the matter.
(screen ripples back to me)
What I eventually figured out was that the water was probably chlorinated...fish don't like that too much. Anyway, I've wanted an aquarium for a really long time and now my dreams have come true. It has been a good week.
¶ 2:50 PM
