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  1. OK. So, I have started my own personal diary of sorts to keep track of my fishy business! It was suggested I post it as a blog! OK, so first of all, Since my diary did not start until I started cycling my tank I will give some BG info..


    10 gal tank (to be used for quarantine/hospital tank)

    2 inch gravel (1 inch sand colored fine substrate for plants, 1 inch colored substrate for looks)
    6 fake plants
    2 live plants
    1 large cave ornament
    1 med sized pink/whiteish rock (real)
    1 4 inch long bubble stone.
    3 plant bulbs

    Before this first post, my two live plants where removed. (due to in order for my bacteria colony to grow, cannot have plants that will absorb all the ammonia)

    So.. here goes...


    Day 1 (9/29/07)

    Added ammonia, waited 4 hours. testing 3.0. Added more ammonia to bring up to 5.0. tested 12. did 25% PWC. testing low again, added a few more drops of ammonia. Testing 5 now.

    Day 2 (9/30/07)

    Temperature fluctuations. Yesterday w/ light 79.9F
    w/o light 96.4
    Before bed 75
    wake up today 74.
    5:20 pm 80 (after light being off for one hour)

    Day 3 (10/01/07)

    Ammonia holding steady. temp fluctuations continue. Removed fake plants. Bulbs still not sprouted. Will leave in until done cycling. if still not sprouted will remove and replace with live plants. Also: Two inches of gravel. Too much. removed 1 inch. Also removed rock as placement was not sufficient. any fish who would swim in front of filter would end up being pushed into it. Left cave. It and a few live plants will be more than suitable for its purpose as a QT tank.

  2. Well, I cant say I would be upset if I this week was completely erased from my memory. I kept hoping it would look up, but the change of tides never did come. I really hoped it would get better tonight when I got home from work, but nothing has changed, well other than another day has gone by. I know, I tell other people to look on the bright side, but im not seeing any light right now. Ive had to go all week wondering if my man was mad at me or if he was hurt or something. I was physically sick all week until yesterday and I didnt even realize why. I finally figured it was from the diet pills I started taking. Work has been BLAH but also BOOM. alot of clashing. One of the supervisors is breaking down, she just cant handle it anymore. If she would start taking advice from other people she might make it, but if she doesnt change soon, shes going to be fired. Me, im just trying to keep myself out of the way, do my job and nothing more, since everyone is pretty much ignoring me anyways and nobody ever seemed to give a f*ck when I went the extra miles anyways, so f*ck it. Im sick of being the only one who cares. but oh well. Then, oh and this is great. I spent $300 on two bedding/curtain sets (one blue one purple) and of course, just like always my luck.. what happens? delivery problems.. why.. f*cking asshole sellers feel the need to use DHL.. goddamn idiots. now I was supposed to get the damn package 2 weeks ago, I talked to a woman at DHL last saturday and gave her VERY clear directions and a description.. goddammit theres a huge f*cking rock face mountain right behind my house, you cant miss it. she told me, oh yes, i know where you are talking about, we will get that back out to you next week (this week).. well guess what.. IT HASNT COME!!!! I just went on dhl to see the tracking info.. its giving me errors like crazy wont let me view the tracking info WTF.... but hey, whats it matter, with my luck I probably wont even be getting my new house anyways, or my husband for that matter.... someone just give me a hole to crawl into, please.

  3. Forever

    By Hope4Peace ,

    its when I really need you, that you're never around
    its when I start to trust you, that you always let me down
    its always when I'm truthful that you lie right to my face
    its for all the things i love of you, theres just a much to hate.


    and its never enough
    to tell you how I feel.
    its always too much
    cause you know my words are real.
    but when you ask me if Ill leave you,
    I still reply "never".
    and when you ask how long my love will last,
    It will always be "forever".


    its when you say you'll be there, that you never do show up
    its when you promise to do it, that you always seem to give up.
    its when I try my best, that you just cant give at all.
    its the moments that mean the most to me, you never can recall

    and its never enough
    to tell you how I feel.
    its always too much
    cause you know my words are real.
    but when you ask me if Ill leave you,
    I still reply "never".
    and when you ask how long my love will last,
    It will always be "forever".

    you couldn't bear to hear the truth again
    another round with Mr Hide
    but somehow you seem to turn it all around
    and make me out to be the bad guy

    and though it never makes a difference,
    ill still tell you how I feel
    and ill ask for your forgiveness
    though i know my words where real.
    but when you ask me if Ill leave you,
    I'll still reply "never".
    and when I ask if you still love me,
    you always say "forever".
  4. well. I tried getting to sleep , but to no avail, so I figured Id come back online for a bit. Its been a long day. Rough morning at work. what good is any system if people dont follow it? I had a perfect set up for the line at work but it wasnt working.. why? people dont know how to f-ing read? this shelf that sais for FIRST TEST, is where you put things for FIRST TEST.... just like the one that sais FINAL TEST is for final test. ERROR REPAIRS FIRST.. for errors from first test that need to be repaired.... ERRORS REPAIRS FINAL for errors fron final that need to be repaired.. FOR HOODING... do I really need to explain? and for christ sakes BAGGING AND COMPLETE.. .. but yet.. "well people dont understand where to put things".... CAN THEY READ? ?? Honestly what kind of stupid ass workers do we have that they cant understand that simple setup.. but hey whatever works for you iditots.. who cares if cables that havnt even been tested get hooded and bagged? its not like MY name is the one thats going on the order or anything *rolls eyes* GRRR. Yea Im just a bit frustrated, not to mention im having to make whole new logging systems andmake sure they work, and do this and do that and a little of THAT as well. But hey.. its not like I dont already work my ass off or anything. Just a little recognition would be nice, instead all i get is crap from people cause im not passing shit.. well Fu@%, its not MY fault the cables they send to testing are crap. Im not the one who built them. I wouldnt be caught dead doing the crap they do, never mind putting my name on it and sending it up. really, its amazing the shit they concider acceptable. but really, I stand up and run around 8-10 hours, go not the extra mile, but the extra 100 miles to make sure the orders get out and not only that, but that they are good quality so that we keep our customers.. especially the ones I deal with since they bring in the big bucks. Do you realize how much pressure there is knowing that youre dealing with an order worth $100,000. I do it on a daily basis. If I screw up, its not a good thing. And with all that, all I even want is a simple "thank you". Is that too much to ask for?
  5. Ive made my mind already, that crap is nasty. im not drinking another drop. so what my pants are a little tight, I can wait the few weeks it takes to loose it the old fashioned way.......... exercise till I pass out and pop lots of diet pills on an empty stomach ......



    .....Just kidding
  6. Well, you know that "Hollywood 48 Hour Miracle Diet" came out quite a few years back, well its still on the market. The past month or so I have gained a few lbs. prolly about 5. so anyways, this diet. heres the deal. you eat/drink nothing but this special juice and water for 48 hours and you can loose UP TO 10 lbs. so ok I figure why not. It sais on the bottle GREAT TASTING!!! So what can the harm be? drink some good juice, loose a few lbs. ... yea well I just started it and well.. all I have to say is.. Its a good think you have 4 hours to drink 8 oz's of that shit then you get a 2 hour break before starting again, because IT TASTES LIKE CRAP!!!!!!!!! Seriously, Its nasty. but screw it, thats the price of beauty, If I cant take it I can abandon, but im going to at least try... Ill let you know how it turns out.
  7. How sick are people, what has the world come to? what has happened to us that parents murder their own children? and in such cruel ways. What has this world come to when mothers put their infants in the microwave??? not just one case, but two I heard of. one in 99 and one in 05 that I heard of this am on the news. WHAT THE f*ck IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!!!!!!! how could you bear a child only to be so cruel to it? I just dont get it. I really am a believer that people should need a license to have kids. mental evaluation and check ups every 6 months. thats why I say. people like this would not be allowed to own pets, so why children? what the hell has this world come to. It kills me to think that my child/children will grow up in a world so cruel. I seriously am going to consider home schooling for them when the time comes, either that or I would rather not have kids if this is what they will have to deal with. I cant even bear watching/listening to the news. someone tell me what is wrong with this picture.. the damn NEWS!!!!! And people wonder why I dont want to watch it. of course I want to know whats going on in the world but what the f*ck, theres some things in all honesty I dont want to know about, I wish I could be completely naive to the cruelty of this world. because what kind of existence is it that the mere act of watching the damn news breaks your heart every day.

  8. Gallery

    By Hope4Peace ,

    OK, so, I finally got around to the gallery. Dont expect much more than whats in there now, not for a while at least since my camera is busted LOL.. I added a few icons I made. YES, I really did make them, they say coolbuddy.com because I submitted them to msnicon.com and all icons must have coolbuddy.com on them in order to be accepted. yes i know they suck and yes I stole the bgs of the cat and pina colada ones.. only the background image. not the text or saying.. im not a complete thief.. no more than anyone else on that site lmao... I have dozens more (many of which are 100% original but thats all I could fit. anyways most of them arent that great anyways LOL.. but yea.. I need to go do some cleaning now..
  9. Well well, its been an interesting week to say the least. Stayed late every night until Thursday as usual. Wednesday, I was even the only QC person. Friggin crazy, thats what it was. CRAZY, but hey, its my job. Wendnesday morning I had to go in early for a meeting. Figures, as if I didn't already have enough to deal with at work, starting Monday, QC will be in charge of tooling. When an assembler needs a tool for an order ( other than those in their tool boxes, screw drivers, various wire and jacket strippers, clamps, ect.. ) things like hand crimpers that cost thousands of dollars.. well, they are no longer going to be going to inventory. Now, they will come to QC, and WE will have to check the order, look the tool up, find an available one in the system. get it physically, inspect it, log it out of the system. when they bring it back, inspect it, log it back in. you get the idea. well whatever.. all because people arnt responsible. not the assemblers with the tools, and not inventory personnel with keeping track of them. wendnesday night we lost power. it just went out. so I figured I would see if it was just us or other people, turns out the next town was out. but no apparent reason why. the weather was fine. so as I kept driving, i found the following town had power, so I turned on to a back road to loop around.. found the problem.. huge tree right in the damn road, all the way across it. I start slowing down, the tree still pretty far ahead. then I realize something else and stop on a dime. The power lines all around me, on the ground just a few feet from the damn car, god did that scare me, took me a minute to back out away from them. got home and called the power company and told them.. luckily, the power was back on by the time i got up in the morning. but yea.... thats a quick summary of my week. oooo no, thats not lol.. so, Wednesday as I was leaving work.. LATE.. deb (of deb and jeff the OWNERS of the company) she was talking to me and yea, she said that we would start enforcing the 4pm cut off again. if its not past QC at 4, its not going. now I don't leave till 5, so its not like I'm going to just stop, its more of. at 4, I work on whatever is priority, and by priority i don't mean management priority, i mean whatever is closest to going. if the line has a big order, at 4 o clock thats too bad, I will work on getting whatever is left of the small orders out.. and NO MORE STAYING LATE TO GET ORDERS OUT... now by "late" I mean 1, 2, 3 or more hours late... 5-20 minutes is fine. If something is close to going and is scheduled to ship, or worse, behind schedule. then ill stay to get it out. but the thing is, no more staying till 830 at night, having non assembly personnel working on assembling, and having someone drive the order down to ups personally because we missed the truck. Once in a while ok., but its been a nightly thing, and thats over with... and all I have to say is THANK GOD!!! oh, and one thing that hasnt made my week any better.. I miss my baby hes been gone all week on business .. returning tomorrow though
  10. why is it that no matter how hard some people try, theyre never good enough? I try so hard, I work my ass off all week. I even stayed more than 3 hours overtime on friday to get an order out. Every day I go above and beyond and yet still Im not worthy of anyones respect. I try so hard to prove myself but then I have these people who spend THIER time trying to sabatage me. Then. the man I love dosnt even respect me. Tells me he will give me anything I ask for, Do anything I ask. All I asked was that he not do anymore work on our house untill I get there so that we can do it together. what does he do all day? works on the house, comes back late at night, and i ask him why he did it and he said he couldnt just sit there all day doing nothing. so i ask. what about spending time with me? but no, im not good enough he had to not only leave me home alone all day, but while doing so, do something that i had asked earlier and he agreed NOT TO DO!!! im not worthy of anyones respect aparently. not the people i work so hard to help. god if you had any idea how much i endured with this guy. how much pain i took for him, and this is what i get, he cant even respect a simple wish of mine. why should I bother to try when im never going to be good enough???
  11. Thats right. no more flip flops. We are no longer allowed to wear flip flops (or any kind of sandal) at work anymore. In addition to that, we must have a seperate pair of shoes which we wear ONLY inside the building. WHAT THE Fu@%!!!!!! Ok. I LIVE IN THONG FLIP FLOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Deb and Jeff but this is rediculous. Its not like we have the most upstanding dress code and yet now we cant wear damn sandals in 90 degree weather? Yes, I seriously am pissed off over flip flops.....
    so yea, I spent my morning driving almost an hour (then another hour back home) to go buy a new pair of sneakers which I can only wear at work....

    I miss my flip flops already

  12. So.....

    By Hope4Peace ,

    Well, I finally did it, Made meself a blog here... Wasnt going to but John kept nagging me . So I guess next stop is a gallery.. oh the agony. So Anyways, well.. I dunno, I cant promise I'll be writing regularly but Ill try. For those who dont know I work full time in quality control at a company that manufactures communications cables for goverment and industry. Yes, thats right boys, you can feel safe knowing that I inspect and test the cables that go to the department of defence But seriously, we deal with big names (that really being one of them) our customers also include all aspects of the military, weve even built orders for area 51. A movie that came out recently, deja vu, the producers of that movie bought cables from us. SC Johnson, one of the biggest manufacturers of household products in the US, yep, they buy from us. So yea, thats my job, I inspect and test the cables and let me tell you, its quite a job, running back and fourth all day, though that will soon change, the company is expanding and an addition has been built which we will be moving into shortly. No more running back and fourth because QC will finally be contained in the QC department! I know what a novel idea, well novel or not, it hasnt been entirely possible, QC was just too small of a space for us all to fit, and I usualy ended up being the one to relocate and do the testing on the assembly line (if thats what you really want to call it lmao) so, since that area was too small (yes we really needed this addition which we are moving into this week, thank god) so theres first text and second text, and we had two different testers (the machines we plug the cables into after inspected to see that they actually WORK. well first test was on the line, but then any additional work on the cables (hooding, labeling, ect..) was done in another room, where the second test was performed (also known as first and final test) So here I am, first test some cables, lug them across the damn building to second test where they will be finished, test the cables there, run back to the line, and in times of dire need to get an order out which is about every day, I am litterally RUNNING. But the running didnt bother me so much the people do however. one thing I cant stand. and really there is just one big rule I have.. and I dont believe its too much to ask for since its a rule in the company anyways, DONT TOUCH MY PILES!!!!! People just take whatever they want from wherever they want, put whatever they want wherever they want, well WTF. I have a system... these cables are tested, these are not, these are good, these are bad, these are counted/logged, these are not. I have a designated area for them to put cables and take cables from... why can they not stick to that? if they put a cable thats bad in a pile of my tested good cables.. IM THE ONE WHO IT COMES DOWN ON. MY NAME IS ON THE DAMN ORDER! NOT THIERS. SO yea, I cant wait for the new QC area.. assemblers will not be allowed into the QC department ... so yea anyways, thats my job....hope you liked the rant
  13. I love how people dismiss my ideas, then later they use them as if it was their own. this is all I have to say to them ....WHATEVER! The most recent case. A poetry site I used to be active at. I suggested that they have something when you sign in that tells you which poems have new comments. At the time, you would see a list of ever poem you had and beside it where links with a number, example (3) would mean you had 3 comments if you had 1 new comment on that poem it would say (3)(1). Now, these links are very small. and for members who have hundreds of poems, its a bit of a pain in the ass to look through them all to see if they have new comments. Hence, my suggestion.. well the staff and many members said, thats a stupid idea, you can just look at the list and it will tell you... yea, I just signed into my account there.. guess what the newest feature is? upon login you now get a list of your poems with new comments.. hmm wonder who thought of that? like I said....

    whatever
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