Blogging Failure

This is what Argentum Vulgaris looks like after a whole day battling with his sick pc...

Please forgive me folks, the problem is close to being resolved, but like many of you, when you have a sick pc, it’s not always easy to find the funds to fix it, so frustrating.

Blogging will resume as soon as possible, and I’ll be back with avengence. But truly, I feel like buying a one way ticket for my pc – straight through the window. It is only that Meow Meow likes to sit on top of it on a cold night that prevents me from depriving him.

Sunday BBQ at the Bar

World Cup

Meow Meow relaxes...

...while Daddy blogs!

My Neighbourhood

Several people that I regularly contact are aware that my local bar (Raimundo’s) is basically my neighbour, and I often joke with them that 11 metres is so far to go for my nightly stroll to watch the news and have my customery beer at night. I have been promising and promising to post a picture showing just the level of inconvenience 11 metres can be. Unfortunately my gate isn’t well defined, being under the smaller tree on the right, but you get the idea.

Here is a shot of the inside of the bar. Raimundo wasn’t aware that I snapped this while he was fitting a new light.

Bars like this don’t exist in most of the first world. Every neighbourhood has one, sometimes two or three; we will soon have two, there is one under construction just 20 metres on the other side of Raimundo’s bar. They are so much a part of our neighbourhood, they play a part in the life of the praça, yes, we are right on the praça. I’ll post pictures of that one day too.

Thank you Adorabibble...

I don't care if you lick windows,

take the special bus

or occasionally pee on yourself..

You hang in there sunshine, you're special

That means a lot...

AV

Nope - Caturday was yesterday!

And I was without net, so new posts coming...

Some more members of my old aquariums

Pearl Danio (Brachydanio albolineatus)
from Burma, Sumatra & Thailand

Leopard Danio (Danio frankei)
from Eastern india, Sri lanka, Malaysia

Zebra Danio (Brachydanio Rerio)
from Eastern India

Harlequins (Trigonostigma Rasboraheteromorpha)
from Indonesia, Malaysia & Thailand

Comments

It's all rather boring, but at the moment I can't respond to comments. My computer decides to switch off when i open the comment box. Weird, I know.

But, please have patience, your comments are being read (email notification) and appreciated.

AV

This is why...

...I don't take Meow Meow to the bar.

That's a sixpence

By todays standard it's worth about five cents, which is what it became when NZ changed to decimal currency in 1967.

But it's value was much more, here are some of the things you could do with sixpence when I was a kid:

1. buy two icecreams
2. get a milkshake and tuppence change
3. buy a comic, Walt Disney or The Phantom
4. catch a bus to town and back again
5. sit downstairs at the movies
6. buy lunch at school - fish 'n' chips
7. get your puncture repaired on your bike
8. buy the morning newspaper, and the evening one
9. buy 24 wine gums
10. or six liquorice straps
11. buy three boxes of matches
12. have three turns at the fairground
13. get a quart of milk
14. a loaf of bread
15. get six 1d bangers
16. six strings of Tom Thumbs
17. two sky rockets at Guy Fawkes.
18. an exercise book for school.
19. post two letters
20. but you needed two to get a hair cut



Can't do any of those things for five cents today...

Garfield's Wisdom

See, it's not a beer belly...

...it's an abdominal Hard Drive!

Ceiling Cat

One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was

going on. So he called one of His angels and sent the angel to Earth for a time.

When he returned, he told God, 'Yes, it is bad on Earth;

95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not.

God thought for a moment and said, 'Maybe I had better

send down a second angel to get another opinion.'

So God called another angel and sent him to Earth for a time.

When the angel returned he went to God and said,

'Yes, it's true.The Earth is in decline; 95% are misbehaving,

But 5% are being good.'

God was not pleased. So He decided to e-mail the 5%

that were good, because he wanted to encourage them,

and give them a little something to help them keep going.

Do you know what the e-mail said?


Okay, I was just wondering, because I didn't get one either.

Meow Meow has bloodied his paws

Meow Meow is now Meow Meow "The Intrepid White Hunter".

He has progressed from flies on the wall, chasing my eraser around the desk, and retrieving pigeon feathers from outside, to hunting seriously.

About an hour ago he presented me with one of these, but then took it back to play with it, under the bed, behind the sofa and inside a supermarket bag. I think it was a Sceloporus graciosus gracilis, but one can never be sure presented with a half chewed specimen.

His little paws have been blooded, he has passed the feline initiation, he is no longer just a cute little kitten, but a force to be reckoned with...

A Balanced Diet

A quirk of Google, I got two for the price of one...

Yes, anyway...

A well balanced diet is essential!

I like this definition of balance.

My aquarium had Tetras too

Serpae Tetra

Hyphessobrycon eques

From: Paraguay and central Brazil

Black tetra
Gymnocorymbus ternetzi

From: Rio Paraguay, Brazil & Rio Guapore, Bolivia

Neon tetra
Paracheirodon innesi

From southeastern Colombia, eastern Peru, and western Brazil, including the tributaries of the Solimões.

Black Neon tetras
Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi

From Paraguay and south western Brazil

Meow Meow Update

Iz yu blogging?

Blogging are hard workz

I iz sleepz in my bed

Wotz diz?

Nuffin' in it!

He's getting bigger...

Oh my resolve...

...why hast thou forsaken me?

No, I was resolute, I did not have pizza yesterday, but I didn't have salad either...

To find out the story you have to visit Things That Fizz & Stuff

...enough said!

No Pizza Mondays

I hate Mondays!


That's why Garfield is my hero, he hates them too. Ah, he loves lasagna too...

I have decided that Mondays are going to be my "No Pizza Day".

I have recently been becoming less and less satisfied with my weight. Not for any health reason, but simply my shape.

It was commented at the bar the other night that I am "out of shape," to which I replied, "Isn't round a shape?"

But they are right, sadly, they are right.

So how did I go from the 76kgs that I weighed when I lived in Bolivia in 1999, to my present 100+ (the plus is my secret, but <10),>

I gave up smoking three times. Ha! Justification! you shout. No, it's the truth, each time I gave up smoking, I piled on the weight like there was no tomorrow.

The last time, as an example, I gave up and six weeks later I had gained 10kgs and stayed there for the six months. I thought bugger this, and reasoned if I put weight on when I stopped smoking, I'll take it off when I start again. That was erroneous thinking. I simply stayed the same, up and down a kilo or two, but essentially the same "round" shape.

Now, I love pizza. My love for pizza is probably only eclipsed by Garfield's adoration of lasagna. I have decided that come hell or high water, Mondays are NO to pizzas. Instead, I am going to devote Mondays to something disgustingly healthy - salad.

Today is Monday...

There is so much truth in this...