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Jonathon is running a diagnostic on my other computer. It was doing things last night that puzzled both of us. I’m accustomed to being puzzled by technology, but when Jonathon is puzzled, something is up. He tells me that the computer is overdue for a day in the shop. Jonathon explained it like taking a car into the shop to get the oil changed. Not because something is wrong in particular, but to prevent bad things from happening. I’m all for that. Lucky I have more than one computer. Though, truthfully, I’ve been trading back and forth pretty freely from the main desk to the small desk. It’s like I work at one until anxiety, or just a screaming need for a new view drives me to the other desk.
Music for the last few days has been mostly the musical 1776, both the new version with Brent Spiner, and the original Broadway version from the 1970s. I would be more than happy to say who stares in the Original version, but the disc is up here without it’s case, and if I go looking for the case and the cast I will never get this posted. My apologies to the wonderful actor who portrays John Adams in the original.
Yes, a musical, so the book is not going as well as I would like, but at least I’m not listening to Christmas music. So it hasn’t come to a completely tragic pass, at least not yet.
Jonathon and I calculated that if I do five pages a day, every day, until the end of January that the book will be finished. Five pages a day. I can do that. Five, not twenty. It’s doable. Though, truthfully, I’m going to try and get ten pages today, so I can take Saturday off. Trinity is with us this weekend, and we’re going to a rock and mineral show. If there is time we’re going to try setting up a small tank of fish for her. The hermit crabs are gone the way of all things invertebrate. They died of different causes. Some died from too much humidity. But the frustrating thing was that with three heat sources in the cage the temperature would not rise to a level that they could thrive at. We’ve found a better crab book, that frankly, gives very different advice from the last book we had, but then look what happened with the last book. I’m not saying we’ll ever get crabs again, but if we do, we’ll get the cage set it up (no crabs, just cage), and keep trying heat set-ups until we get one that will work. I had similar problems when I tried keeping a bearded dragon in my office, which shares a wall with Trinity’s room. For some reason the temperature in these two rooms is colder than most of the rest of the house. Yes, it is probably something to do with the heating system and how it circulates, but we’ve had it looked at it, and the problem remains. The bearded dragon did not die. It hibernated, for four months. Finally, I took her back to the breeder I got her from, because a sleeping lizard just isn’t that interesting, and I was afraid there was something wrong. The breeder was thrilled to have her back, and thrilled that she’d been hibernating, because that meant he had a female that would be off schedule from his others and he could have eggs during the slow season, or something like that. He said she was healthy, a good weight, and lovely. Good to know. But until we can get a tank or cage to the right temperature no animals go into the tanks. We’ll put the fish tank up this weekend, I hope, and let it get warm, then season it with a small number of fish. Part of the problem with the crabs was being too enthusiastic too quickly. But the first two were doing so well, ah, but it was summer. Once the temperature started to drop, well . . . And the location was wrong, and . . . Trinity was most distraught that they all passed away.
We have two new aquarium books, one Aquarium for Dummies. I really like the dummy line of books, and the idiot’s guide to things. I have the Idiot’s Guide to Amazing Sex as one of the books in the closet of research books you’re too young to know about.
Gotta go make a few more pages before lunch.