The start of sleepless nights....

Well, I usually dont get stressed about things, I have almost completed my schooling will relatively no stress, I have handled life and death situations with relatively no stress, yet the thought of moving my fish tank is KILLING me. There are so many things that are uncertain about this latest adventure. Are we going to sell our houses and be homeless for a short time? If so, what do I do with my fish? It's not like I can just throw them in storage and hope they will be fine by time we get a place. I guess I could always sell everything, but like most things in life, I wont get as much as I have paid for them and I won't be able to buy replacements for what I sold mine for. Then you have the moving of the tank itself. this is a mammoth adventure as it is. There are 150 gallons of water of which at least half needs to be used so you dont kill everything in the process. There is the sheer weight of the tank and the stand which are a blast to move anyways. Now if I didnt have to worry about all the living creatures it would be less complicated, but the creatures are the whole point to having a tank this big. So I really dont know how I am going to do this. Then besides the fish tank, between the two of us, we have more junk then you can believe. I think I am going to have a "buy it so I dont have to move it" sale. I have an extra couch, desks, tables, chairs, pictures, junk, junk, and more junk.
I think I need to take a nap, just thinking about it is making me tired.

Snow Anyone?

I decided to share some snow pictures since everyone else is doing it and I don’t want to be left behind.

This is a picture to illiterate how much snow I got. If you look back towards the back fence, you can see it is halfway up my 6ft fence.






This is a picture to remind everyone why we must tie up our shrubs before winter hits. Hopefully the new owners don’t mind broken shrubbery.






This is a picture of why I must snowplow a path for my dogs. I have intentionally darkened the picture so you can see how deep the snow is for the pups.

It snowed

well, I think this has been the most snow at my house in the shortest amount of time. I just got done snowblowing TWICE. After doing the front drive twice I headed to the backyard, what I had already done once, and there was another 4 inches of snow. Luckily, I find great pleasure in snowblowing.

Oh, by the way if anyone has boxes, I need them.

baby z - again

baby z appears before your very eyes!!!!!

Am I the only one that sees it?

Is this not just the Yin Yang symbol?

the "simple" fish tank

Ok, I have been working on programing my fishtank's computer all morning. (well that's a little bit of a lie since I have completed 3 assignments and only have one left to do for the week) I just wanted to give everyone an idea on how must fun it is to work on this think. Here is a sample of the code that turns on and of the lights, controls the powerheads, and helps run other vital systems to make sure my fish are happy.

Enjoy.

Outlet Numbers
DC8 (A)
1.T5's
2.Heater
3.Uv light
4.Co2 Regulator
5.Metal Halide
6.Sump Light
7.Rotating Pump
8.Cooling Fan
DC4 (B)
1.Left Pwrhead
2.Right Pwrhead
3.???
4.???


T5_$-A1
MH1$-A5
HTR%-A2
FAN%-A8
UV_$-A3
pH_&-A4
smp$-A6
WV1#-A7
WvL#-B1
WvR#-B2
Wv3#-B3
Wv4#-B4


If Time > 10:00 Then T5_ ON
If Time > 13:45 Then T5_ OFF
If Time > 19:15 Then T5_ ON
If Time > 22:00 Then T5_ OFF
If Time > 11:30 Then MH1 ON
If Time > 20:30 Then MH1 OFF
If Temp > 81.9 Then MH1 OFF
Max Change 010 M Then MH1 OFF
If Time > 13:00 Then smp OFF
If Time > 18:00 Then smp ON
If Temp <> 78.0 Then HTR OFF
If Temp > 78.0 Then FAN ON
If Temp <> 06.70 Then Co2 ON
If pH <> 10:00 Then WV1 ON
If Time > 22:00 Then WV1 OFF
If Time > 05:00 Then UV_ ON
If Time > 06:00 Then UV_ OFF
If Time > 19:00 Then UV_ ON
If Time > 20:00 Then UV_ OFF
If Temp <> 00:00 Then WvL ON
If Time > 00:00 Then WvR ON
If FeedA 000 Then WV1 OFF
If FeedA 002 Then WvL OFF
If FeedA 007 Then WvR OFF

Ok, now that you have all that information digested, can someone tell me when the fun starts?