April 11, 2010
I’ll be posting a story soon —Coming Tomorrow—-on my plight to humanely euthanize my fish after an ich epidemic swept the tank. Lessons learned and the highly effective method I eventually utilized will be discussed. Stay tuned for this harrowing account of “Fear & Loathing In Fish Town”.
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March 30, 2010
There in front of my car, as I came to a gentle stop hardly perceivable to my inner ear, I was faced with ultimate mortality in all its heartless, cold, and grim cruelty. An image, a picture of a godless world. Survival of the strongest. No compassion, no security, no redemption was evident in this scene. The deadness and permanence of the long endless winter was upon me. Leafless old limbs seemed to bend over me and my car, threatening to break off and splinter like dry bones, a hale of mortuary winter disease. Even now as I recall it, the image is etched and burned into my mind as clear as the day. Two little paws, straining, grasping, clawing with slow determined patters. Patter… patter… patter… My heart wrenches in my chest, grabbed and torqued like the sudden loosening of a canning lid under a stagnant stalemate but now erupting, overpowering, and excessive force. Its so disturbing it physically hurts. I want to look away or keep driving but I have to watch. Patter… patter… patter…
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