Opening bid ..... $1

Ok, I have decided to sell some of my art work. Starting off I would like to present the piece called "Feast of Famine"
This creation is made of recyclable materials to help reduce the impact on the environment. The Item will be packed and shipped in biodegradable materials and packed in a way so that the work of art will not be damaged.

"Feast of Famine"

If you have any questions, please ask. All funds will be applied to future projects.

Fraggin day...

Well, since I am home all alone on this beautiful and peaceful day, I decided to do a little fragging of some of the corals in my 120g reef tank.





I will then put them in to my 12g nano tank.

I have only done this a couple of times and I am still trying to figure out the easiest way of doing this. The keep is being able to rip these corals up from the rocks in such a way that you do not damage them. Kind of like pulling the tablecloth off a table without taking the cups and plates with it. For those who are wondering what fragging is, well it's basically gluing sea corals to rocks....that’s it. This is where I recommend Loctite brand SUPERGLUE Gel Control, it works amazingly well for glueing corals to rocks!

(if the Loctite company wants me as a marketing team member, please contact me)


Back to the topic…..So today, I decided to frag some of my eagle eye zoo's.

(not the best pics, but I am using my phone ;p )

This process started by me using some forceps that I just happen to have under my fish tank. I was able to get a few nice little polyps from the main colony. (makes me wonder if proctologists have a better natural ability to frag these things) Anyways, after getting a bunch of these little guys off with a little collateral damage it was time to do the gluing. This is where I realized I didn’t have any extra little rock pieces to glue the zoo’s to.
Luckily, I have a huge hammer and a huge screwdriver that I used to break this larger rock into little pieces. Last time I did this it was in the kitchen. You would be surprised how long it takes to pick up all the little pieces of rock that are blasted around the kitchen. Needless to say, scratz wasn’t too pleased with this adventure last time. So this time, I made the executive decision to crush the rock in the garage. Well it still made a huge mess, however if I don’t get time to clean it up this year, scratz wont have me killed.
Anyways, after breaking up the rock, I successfully glued the little polyps to the rocks as planned.

(the zoo’s aren’t to happy)




While I was in the tank I decided to frag some of the mushrooms as well.





These are easier then the zoo’s because you can just cut them off and attach them to something else. Also as a bonus, when you cut them off, not only does the part that you cut off grow, but the fragged part grows as well. Anyway’s here is a pic of the mushrooms.





That is all for now, I think with all this excitement it is time to wash all the salt off of me and clean up the mess I made on the kitchen table and take a nap.

Todays events

Today was my very first Wednesday that I had no work, no school, and no real plans. For what I had hoped to be a uneventful day, it was full of frustration. My plan to sleep in until noon or so was dramatically interrupted by a little girl at 9am who was hungry and needed some cereal. After getting her some coco puffs, I figured since I was already up, I would start messing around with my fish tank. I have been having problems with my calcium reactor and a few of my power heads. So I began working on the tank, however every 2 minutes, I had to watch the little girl who had more energy than anyone should have and required me to watch everything she was doing. So I decided we would go outside so I could adjust the sunroof on my car and let her ride her razor scooter around to help her get rid of some of that energy. While she was doing this, she changed her mind and decided to ride her bike instead. This apparently required me adjusting the handlebars and the seat since she is bigger than she was last year. After I got done with that the little one decided that she was hungry again. Anyways, I still was able to adjust my sunroof, right before the UPS man arrived. He brought me the replacement pump for my skimmer, which died last week. (if it’s not one thing broken on the tank it’s another). I decided to head in to try to get that pump switched out, only to find the older girl at my house was still in bed and it was almost noon. Once she got up, she was just as needy as her little sister. She wanted something to eat and for some reason they need me to tell them what they can eat, even though they can get it themselves. One they were fed, I tried working on the tank again. I don’t know how you are supposed to pay attention to everything they do when you have your own stuff to get done. This is where my frustration began, from this point on I everything that could go wrong did. Well, while I was trying to pay attention to 2 girls and replace my water pump, I also managed to knock over the living room lamp.

Then the pump I got needed a different attachment then what I had, so I had to make a trip to lowes. I walked around for hours trying to find something that would work. I couldn’t find what I was looking for so I decided to make something. I bought a few miscellaneous pvc pipe parts and headed home. Once I got home, I used the wonder tool, the Dremel to trim, cult, and melt the pvc into something I could possibly use. This again took forever, with the end result of the pump not working the way it was suppose to. Anyway, after destroying every piece of pvc I bought and finally just giving up, the pump worked. There is no reason why but it did. This is a pretty pointless blog, so I will stop typing before I curse my tank or break something else.

While I'm on the topic....

Here is a great website to see how "green" you really are http://www.abc.net.au/science/planetslayer/greenhouse_calc.htm

Just use it to see how soon you should die from your use of the enviornment.
Here are my results:




Feel free to post your results :)

Smoking...It does a body good

The other day scratz and I saw a advertisement on the TV about how to measure your carbon foot print. Well with nothing to do, I figured out our carbon footprint and according the website we have an approximate footprint of 41.2 metric tons of CO2 per year (the site said the average is 45 metric tons). So I guess we are already being green. However, my prelude has been acting a little sluggish lately, bogging down in every gear, hesitation when you step on the accelerator and just being an all around pain in the butt. With the idea of being green and reducing our carbon footprint, I figured I better try and fix this problem. Anyway, I decided to do the old shade-tree mechanic trick of using Seafoam to clean out the carbon deposits and other junk from the engine. Now for you who haven't heard about Seafoam, it is actually intended to either be an additive to mix with your gas to clean your fuel system or to be put into the engine via the oil fill hole 10 minutes before you do an oil change to clean the tar out of your engine. Both of these process work very well for a product which was created in the '60s I believe.

In case you are wondering which way I used it, it was neither of the two previous ways mention. (who does what the instructions say anyways?) The "REAL" way to use Seafoam is not actually written on the instructions, but for you adventurous types here you go. First you locate a vacuum hose in the engine bay which connects directly into the intake manifold. You then disconnect one side of the hose, but leave the other side attached to the intake. Start the car and make sure that there is a vacuum on the hose. If there is, then stick the free end of the hose into the opened bottle of Seafoam. The engine will then suck the liquid into the intake manifold, you want to do this until about half of the can is emptied into the engine. You may need to have someone help keep the car running by working the throttle while you do this because the engine really doesn't like taking such a big drink of liquid even though it needs it. As soon as half the can of Seafoam is gone, turn off the car. Some people say you should let the car sit for 30 min to an hour to allow for the Seafoam to clean the engine out. Then once the car has had time to set, you just start the engine, rev it over and over and watch all the thick white smoke pour out of the exhaust. Once it is done smoking, you can take the car for a test drive and notice the improvements.
I know all of you are asking what the point of this blog is, well when I just did this I some how managed to forget to start the car an hour later to finish the process. I didn't just for get for a few hours or overnight, I forgot for 3 whole days. So this morning when I started my car at 0530hrs to head to work, there was this GINORMIOUS cloud of smoke. The smoke was so thick, I couldn't see out my rear window to even back out of the garage. I sat there for a minute waiting for the cloud to go away but it didn't. I decided I would risk it and back out anyways before I suffocated in my own exhaust. The best part about this stuff is the more gas you give it, the more smoke it makes. So once I was able to get out of my smoke filled driveway, I gunned it. This created a scene which is reminiscent of SpyHunter on the 64.
I could not believe the amount of smoke my car was creating. If it would have been dark outside, that would be one thing but it was bright daylight and I seriously was creating a white cloud vortex as I drove. I continued on my way to work breaking every speed limit I could just so I could make more smoke. It was like I had an endless supply. The cars I cutoff and the cars the got stuck behind me must have thought my car was on fire or about ready to explode. The only thing that could have made it even more awesome is if I had a video camera in the car to catch the look of the other drivers as this toxic smoke cloud completely enveloped their vehicles.
Here is the Official Untouched Satalight photo...(untouched like the mars photo's that is)

Unfortunately, my car stop producing this wonderful smoke screen about 3 miles into my drive. Luckily, I was able to make up the difference in my carbon output for an entire year in a matter of 10 minutes. Who's the tree-hugger now? GO GREEN, WHOOOT!!!!