Flashing Squid and Fishies
A nice guy by the name of Allen wrote me a note to let me know that for some reason all he can see on this page is the picture of the squid flashing and nothing else. He has IE 5.0. I told him to upgrade. This blogger thinggie uses a template that I personally don't want to sit around trying to debug. I'm hoping he takes my advice on this.
On a sad note the three goldfish I gave up for adoption last November have died.
Read for yourself:
-----Original Message-----
From: R. Joseph Heagany IV
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 1:15 PM
To: Marian Burgess
Subject: Re: Fishies
hi marian!
well, i'm sorry to say this.. but they didn't survive.
they didn't all go at once.. but 2 weeks ago i had to
burry the big one (who lasted the longest) friday
morning i woke-up and he was swimming upside down (as
the others did) i didn't think much about it - but i
had to go out of town for the weekend.. anyway, i came
back and my entire apartment smelled like rotten
fish.. and i heard it got quite hot that weekend too.
ugh, gross.
well, they were fun while they lasted. sorta freaked
my friends out though with those big crazy eyes.
glad you're enjoying yer new city.
cheers,
joe
Joe was a guy I met last fall in Oakland when I bought his elliptical. He emailed me afterwards wondering about my apartment since I'd mentioned I was moving and he needed to move out of his place pretty quickly. He wound up finding another place and I wound up getting him to adopt my fish.
I'd had those fish for almost four years. My friend Dave foisted them on me after he'd found them abandoned in a rental his parents had after the speed freaks that lived there had moved out and been gone for three weeks. They were suprised to find the fish in the first place since the tank was full of murky brown water. A little stirring and voila, three fish! I took those guys in and added two more to the fold. Over those years one of the ones I bought died and one that I'd adopted died. So I was left with two adopted fish and one that I'd gotten from the pet store that was once black and had mutated and turned gold. My favorite of the adoptees I named Dave. He was a BIG goldfish. They all had those goofy bubble eyes but he was the coolest. I was pretty proud of how big he got.
It got tiresome to own fish though and I was tired of ruining carpets and furniture due to all the water involved. I don't know how other folks do it but it was a pretty messy process to upkeep those guys. Joe already had some fish so I figured he was a good candidate to take them in. Now I'm not sure what really happened and I thought Goldfish live a long long time so who knows. I'm just sorry they didn't make it. Oh well, Dave would have probably flushed them down the toilet so they got a few extra years of life out of it. No more fish for me anyways. Too much work!
On a sad note the three goldfish I gave up for adoption last November have died.
Read for yourself:
-----Original Message-----
From: R. Joseph Heagany IV
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 1:15 PM
To: Marian Burgess
Subject: Re: Fishies
hi marian!
well, i'm sorry to say this.. but they didn't survive.
they didn't all go at once.. but 2 weeks ago i had to
burry the big one (who lasted the longest) friday
morning i woke-up and he was swimming upside down (as
the others did) i didn't think much about it - but i
had to go out of town for the weekend.. anyway, i came
back and my entire apartment smelled like rotten
fish.. and i heard it got quite hot that weekend too.
ugh, gross.
well, they were fun while they lasted. sorta freaked
my friends out though with those big crazy eyes.
glad you're enjoying yer new city.
cheers,
joe
Joe was a guy I met last fall in Oakland when I bought his elliptical. He emailed me afterwards wondering about my apartment since I'd mentioned I was moving and he needed to move out of his place pretty quickly. He wound up finding another place and I wound up getting him to adopt my fish.
I'd had those fish for almost four years. My friend Dave foisted them on me after he'd found them abandoned in a rental his parents had after the speed freaks that lived there had moved out and been gone for three weeks. They were suprised to find the fish in the first place since the tank was full of murky brown water. A little stirring and voila, three fish! I took those guys in and added two more to the fold. Over those years one of the ones I bought died and one that I'd adopted died. So I was left with two adopted fish and one that I'd gotten from the pet store that was once black and had mutated and turned gold. My favorite of the adoptees I named Dave. He was a BIG goldfish. They all had those goofy bubble eyes but he was the coolest. I was pretty proud of how big he got.
It got tiresome to own fish though and I was tired of ruining carpets and furniture due to all the water involved. I don't know how other folks do it but it was a pretty messy process to upkeep those guys. Joe already had some fish so I figured he was a good candidate to take them in. Now I'm not sure what really happened and I thought Goldfish live a long long time so who knows. I'm just sorry they didn't make it. Oh well, Dave would have probably flushed them down the toilet so they got a few extra years of life out of it. No more fish for me anyways. Too much work!
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