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Oh dear. When I got home yesterday evening I saw that someone had decided to have a go at eating Harry (the big orange fish). Most of his tail fins were gone and it looked like he'd been attacked. So I took him out of the fish tank and put him in another container with a floating plant and a rock.

This morning he seemed to be doing much better already. He was swimming around more actively and seemed on the whole a lot livelier. So we'll see how things go, see how he's doing when I get home. He'll either be dead, or he'll be getting better. Read more about More in the fish continuing saga...

Well, today I was in the shopping centre, and there was a pet shop, so I decided to see what they had in the line of submarine creatures. And sure enough, they had some fantastic looking snails.

So, yours truly bought himself a snail. There were black and white ones, and the lady at the pet shop kinda dug out a white one before I had a chance to say yea or nay, but it's a beautiful snail none-the-less (never thought I'd say that!). Read more about The latest addition to the fish tank...

Well, last night I got home, proud to have my first oficially bought bottle of fish food, so all was happy. But as I walked in the door, I heard a horrible noise coming from the fish tank, one of the filters obviously. Read more about Life is full of learning: Fish tanks and fun...

"Retarded politicians!" was my frustration put into words, at which a friend commented that what I had said was tautology. Tautology? I looked up the definition and found, "Repetition of the same idea in different words". Yes.

The cause of my frustration? Some politician on his way to work this morning, on the N2, in his little convoy with police forcing cars out of the way so that they could drive, about 20 kph ABOVE the speed limit, unhassled. What's the deal? Read more about Tautology - Repetition of the same idea in different words...

Last night I was exhausted. Like dead tired. So I decided to take a nap, and wake up later. I hit the hay at about 20:15 last night, and Hannah woke me at 21:00. Would you believe I woke up feeling worse! Read more about A night of sleep...

We'd like to say a warm welcome to Ernie II, the successor to Ernie the First. He arrived today and has speedily made himself at home with the others. This time I didn't get an orange fantail, I got a brownish looking fish, similar to Harry, the more goldfish-looking one. Read more about Ernie II and the Dolphin...

Ernie the fish is now an ex-fish.

I got home this evening to find him floating in the top of the tank. Not unexpected however. He's been looking sickly and swimming funny the last 2 or so weeks, so I've just been waiting for the inevitable.

Oh well, it's off to the pet store on Saturday then to buy Ernie II. Read more about Ernie is dead, long live Ernie!...

Well, yesterday I went to visit the folks for the day out in Paarl. Dad has been whining since goodness knows when about me going to visit them out in Paarl, so in order to quiet him and keep the peace, I freed up yesterday to do the deed.

Anyways, so I pretty much mooched there for most of the day. Didn't really do much. Read more about Visiting the parents...

On Sunday afternoon I started getting a headache. Nothing too unsual about that... just that they usually aren't simple headaches but proper migraines. For some reason I never just get a simple headache, it always turns into a full blown migraine.

So, knowing this, I thought I'd get a Panado (light painkiller), just to see me through church that evening, and then I'd have some Myprodols (heavy painkiller) when I got home, since Myprodols put me to sleep and I don't wanna fall asleep at my drums. Read more about Migraine Troubles...