I'm a pretty handsome guy. I'll give you the shot if you buy me a caramel latte afterwards.I got my Geezer Covid shot this morning. The Lady next to me was 103 years old. She was nice but what I didn't like about her, is that, she looked better than I do.
A Supermodel gave me the shot so i was all excited. After the shot you have to wait there for 15 minutes. While I was waiting, I asked her if she would like to go for a cup of caramel Latte across the street at Starbucks. She didn't. During that time, If you grow two heads, turn orange or drop dead they are supposed to inform some Government agency. Probably the "Men in Black".
So far nothing happened to me and I stopped looking in the mirror to see if I grew any hair.
No luck yet. Now I have to start getting up in the middle of the night to see If I can get my wife the shot as it isn't easy. There are like 7,000,000 people here on Long Island and they have only one Supermodel give one shot at a time, then fill out paper work for 15 minutes while another person, maybe a 103 year old person waits there. I told them to take her first. Every minute for her is valuable.
I know there is a shortage of Supermodels but I think anyone can give this shot as long as they have a nice personality. I wonder if you have to go to high school to know how to do this because it seems pretty simple to me.
On weekends my Dad, who died at age 47 when I was 10, used to drive us to Brooklyn to visit his parents (my Grand Parents) I hated to go there because I had to dress up in a suit and tie and my Grand Parents were born in Sicily and didn't speak a word of English.
It's hard to argue with your extensive experience. I appreciate the grounding you provide.This is from 4 years ago so I am sure it is on here somewhere. I had nothing to do and my wife is not feeling well so I figured while I was waiting for her to feel better, I would re post this here. If you don't want to read it. (I don't) go and watch Rachel Ray make ravioli with broccoli rob .
Remember my tank is far from perfect. A month ago I put in a garden eel, I have not seen it since so it is either croaked or under the UG filter. But it probably croaked. A week or two ago I added two ruby red dragonettes, havent' seen either one yet so they are either hanging out with the garden eel or dried up on the floor somewhere. If a fish lives a week, it generally lives forever, but the first week is crucial. I also lose corals, sometimes in a very short while, sometimes inexplicably after years. No one knows why but it is not the silly parameters that everyone is so worried about. If the majority of your creatures live to be older then Myley Cyrus, the parameters are fine.
I was just reading about refractometers and how you need to calibrate them to be exactly what ever. Why would you care about that? Your salinity should be close to what it was where your fish came from, but it need not be exactly in the center of the line, the fish or corals can't read your refractometer and don't care. The salinity all over the earth varies, so what are we setting it at? Let me check my salinity right now................It is hard to tell exactly what it is with my ancient swing arm hydrometer but I brought the thing with me many times to the tropics and drew lines on it where the arm was floating so I have to guess. I also tested it against a refractometer.
My salinity now is much lower than the salinity in Florida is, about 21. I am going to change the water tonight and I like to have my new water close to my old water so I check it. I will mix my new water to a salinity of 25 (or 1.025 for the perfectionists) this way my overall salinity will come up a little. This is perfectly fine and the fish and corals will not get the horrors from this minor change. I am changing 20% of the water so the overall salinity will probably rise one degree.
You would be amazed at the salinity variations our fish and corals can live at. Of course we want it close to something like 25 but IMO close is close enough. It's the same with the temperature. Mine stays about 78 in the winter to about 82 in the summer but it has gone to about 87 which is too high, although I never lost anything to salinity, parameters or temperature.
RAP music maybe but not from my house.
As for changing too much water, I stick with that. Why is it that new tanks look lousy? If new water was so great why is so much water changed to kill algae even though that never works. When people see ich, they change water, like the ick parasite cares. Maybe ich likes new water, who knows.
We need more common sense IMO than medications and controllers.
I don't have any controllers or dosers. They are not bad, I just see no need for them. I also have no sump, nothing wrong with them, they were just not invented when I started my tank.
The secret to keeping salt water is live bacteria. That's mostly it. The majority of people never allow live bacteria into their tank because they only use store bought frozen fish food that is frozen to the temperature of Antartica and is irradiated to kill bacteria so the stuff lasts longer.
That is great for fish food manufacturers and I use some commercially sold food every day, but I also add live bacteria in the live worms and clams I feed every day. That is the main reason my fish never get sick. But it usually falls on deaf ears which is why we have need for those "disease forums". ;Happy
Nothing but respect Paul. Thank you for your service. George
I think there should be a thread on respect. As I get old-er, I notice all around me, in all aspects of life that respect for many things is all but gone.
I know I sound like my parents but my Mother lived to 99 and she used to tell me this all the time. I didn't listen then or believe it but she was right.
As a little kid, last century,
But every Sunday we would go there. I remember off to the left they were building the Varrizano Bridge. Anyway at the house we would always stay in the basement. I don't know what it is about Italian families but they lived in the basement. Even in my house we had a finished basement and we lived there. Upstairs was just for company, but I never remember anyone going upstairs except to sleep.
When we walked in my Dad would always go up to his Dad and give him a kiss, then to his Mother.
We would sit for dinner still wearing our suits and they would all speak in Italian and I had to sit there being quiet. I didn't speak Italian anyway so I wouldn't add much to the conversation.
My cousin had a small fresh water fish tank so I would look at that and the stuffed pheasant they had on the TV.
My Daughter comes here to my house and says "Whats up?" then sits down. That is her Hello. My Grand Kids run past my wife and I looking for toys or candy while never looking up from their tablet not saying anything.
They go behind some furniture and stay there until I bring out something new for them.
The Kids may eat something but rarely while the rest of us are eating. I think they live on pretzels.
I just don't see any respect.
Yesterday I got my Covid shot and now they are only giving it to Geezers like me. But I was one of the younger Geezers there as the Lady next to me was 103.
I didn't know this Lady but I had great respect for her just because I know she has lived longer than me. A lot longer. She lived through WW2 and saw many more things than I did and probably had more wisdom, so she deserved respect and I gave it to her as did the much younger people working there giving out the shots.
I always go up to an older person and ask how they are doing and if I know it is a Veteran I shake their hand (before Covid) and tell them, "welcome home Veteran".
There aren't many people older than I am any more but when I find one, I try to be very respectful as that is what I was taught. I call them Sir or Miss.
In school a teacher would hit me if I was talking or making noise during a lesson and when I got home and told my Mother she would smack me more and maybe even call the teacher to thank her.
Today that teacher would be sued or go to jail. It's the same with police. I was taught to trust the police and do what they say. Now police are in many cases the enemy. But in an emergency, they are the first people we call.
Many of my friends are retired cops and they tell me all the time no one respects them any more.
Veterans also. When I wear my Viet Nam Veteran hat I often get respect from older people. But rarely from younger people. It's like the Patriots who fought in WW2 didn't do anything for us and they are taken for granted. We have very few WW2 Vets left but we still have Korean War Vets and like myself Viet Nam Vets.
I fear that the next generation respect will all be forgotten and people will all just live in their own world, worrying about their own problems without ever thinking of how and why we live in a beautiful and free country. I am old so I hope I never see that day.
Oh My, I thought it was HuduVudu. Nice to meet you Shane.Hi Paul, my name is Shane. Not HuduVudu.
I know it well as I was there and had a hard time getting through that movie. I don't think I ever finished it.Full Metal Jacket has to be one of the best movies of all time. The message was real and the movie was to a tee accurate. RIP Lee Ermy.
I struggle with that too. Between my gf and I, we have five kids at home. Sometimes it is difficult just to get a thank you from them. I'm the "heavy" and my girl always feels like the kids would be greatful if she only did more for them.
