Since none of these are as nicely taken as I'd like, I'm linking instead of sucking up my file space here.  It's been about forteen to fifteen years since I've taken fish pictures, and never before with a digital camera, so I sort of screwed up and used way too high an ISO setting for the light levels.  Should have opened up the aperature instead.  Oh well.  Not bad for my first attempt.  I'll get better.

Anyway, here's a quick run-down of the new family members:

• The four reds, hanging in the darkest corner of the tank.  For reference, the heater tube in the background is just under an inch wide.

• WOT?

• One of the two golds, the more yellowish one.  There's also an orange gold one, plus the four reds.

• Hanging by the filter uptake.

• Probably the best single-shot of the night.  Properly framed, this could be a keeper, though the background light levels are a little low.

• The yellow gold again.  The graininess sort of ruins what would otherwise be a pretty good shot.

So there you go.  About thirty minutes sitting in front of the tank trying to catch little flashes of color in between fin-spasms.  Constant motion with these little buggers.  It's fun to watch, hard to catch on a still camera.  Especially when you're going for a close-up.

I did a quick water change last night and cleaned up parts of the tank.  Noticed a whole bunch of new microsword growth in the back corner.  Lots of new little shoots popping up in that rear area.  I may just trim back the parts that haven't rooted by now and let the new growth go where it will for a while.

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Bad things happened yesterday afternoon in the Funhouse strip-mall daycare center.  Very bad things.  So bad I can't even make fun of Funhouse for being involved in it.

I can honestly say this is the first time I'm sorry that we fail at everything we have a hand in.  There's no pleasure found in this failure for any of us.  Not even our marketing guy can find a way to spin this into a positive.  There's not much more that can be said about it.  It's an ugly situation that I hope doesn't turn any uglier.

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I had a weird burst of energy late yesterday afternoon.  Mrs. NFB was a little under the weather when I got home so I took the dogs for a walk in the park by myself.  Before getting out of the car with them I said, "OK girls, let's keep the pace up and just shoot around the circle."  We got out, and they listened.  Almost jogging speed the entire way, only stopping once each for a potty break.  I was very impressed, as they typically dilly-dally and sniff every blade of grass along the way.

I felt all sorts of energetic yesterday.  I'm hoping I can keep that energy level up.  It's tough to do that through a work week.  But, after last week working so hard, I'm just feeling all of it pile up in me all day long now and wanting to do something.  I tried to keep active last night, and hopefully I can continue to do that.

I suppose, off to face the crap.  Outz.