Hey everybody. I'm going to sleep any minute now. I'll catch up with online-stuff in the morning.

I had an exhausting few days. The funeral parlor is not exactly my favorite place, nor is a ninety-degree cemetary in a black suit. But the services were lovely, and things went as well as can be expected.

I find it strange to say that even with circumstances such as these, Mike and I seem to be having a lot more fun with each other lately. I think that's a good thing. Our planned activity for this weekend? A midnight 'til 8am rave. My first rave. I'm kinda nervous about the whole thing, but hey, I said I wanted to dance, didn't I?


Okay, bed. But first, check out my new layout. Much thanks to those of you who helped, particularly researchminion, pamelajoy, and seshen. I'll most likely tweak the component boxes as thoughts come to me, but I like the overall feel.

Please explain to me why it takes two hours to mow the itty-bitty patch of lawn outside my window? When they started at 8am, it sounded like a jet plane was hovering above my building due to the lovely industrial mowers. I woke up completely startled. It is now 10:05. Said mower is still at it.

WTF?

It appears that I have a tailbiter. When I left for work this morning, Sushi was absolutely fine. When I came back, he was nervously swimming in circles, and 1/4 of his back tail was gone. It appears he's nibbled it off-- his back fin is stringy and tattered.

I'm starting treatment with Melafix, stress coat, and aquarium salt to mellow him back to his usual self, but it's got me seriously freaked out. I've heard that some bettas do this, but Sushi had been fine for the month I've had him. Weird.

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Definite damage.

I invite you all to partake in Michael's ultra-pimp vintage 70's suit:



Hee.

It's gonna be a long night. I must stay awake as long as humanly possible. I will be working on projects, so hopefully I'll be productive. Added before and after shots to my last post so that you can see the damage that my self-mutilating fish did. Off to brew some coffee. Expect delirious ramblings at about 5am.