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| Sunday, September 11th, 2005 | | 12:18 am |
I found the following on the net trying to figure out my goldfish, 24. How do I tell what sex my goldfish are? It is difficult to tell the sex of goldfish when they are not in breeding condition. When they are in condition, it is the males that are immediately identifiable. They develop something called "breeding tubercles". These are little protuberances that develop on the leading ray of the pectoral fins and on the gill opercula (the operculum is the large scale covering the gill). The tubercles look like small grains of white sand. On fish with headgrowth the tubercles on the gill covers are often not visible. But the ones on the pectorals are usually pretty obvious. Of course they are hard to see on white fish, but if you get sort of above and forward of the fish, you can see them as a serrated edge on the front of the pectoral fins. I have seen males develop these tubercles as early as 4-months of age, though I would say 8-months to a year is more typical. What about females? Well, they don’t have the tubercles and males (with the tubercles) will follow them around and nudge them in the rear part of their bodies when they are in spawning condition. The males can be quite relentless and even kill a female, if there is no way the female can get away and rest. I have actually gotten a couple of notes from people saying that they had a sick goldfish, but that the other goldfish in the tank was trying to help the sick fish by nudging it to the surface. Uh, sorry. The "other fish" is a male and the owner simply has not observed the hours of chasing that exhausted the female, reducing her to an inert, bruised mass. --- So far soo good, I don't think I've seen any 'nudging' lol. Tofu Current Mood: humored | | Monday, August 29th, 2005 | | 11:30 pm |
The first in Many
So I haven't updated this thing since March, mostly because I think the blogger looks way cooler, but I guess since I'm about to leave for Prairie and not everyone reads my blogg or my lj, or alot of things so whateve. (christofu.blogspot.com) Anyways, as I've mentioned to Natalie I've been packing and cleaning and cleaning and packing and so today I packed everything in my room completely that I'm bringing, I wish I could bring my deer antlers, there's not too much more room. it looks like I'm going to have my two suit cases and my back pack, but beyond that, I'm pretty much done. I need to buy a belt, runners, and a new bag, but I'm pretty much set, if I needed to leave tommorow I'd be set to go. I don't understand why girls are so lousy at packing things, like they bring more stuff then guys so you'd think they'd be better at it, and finding space and things, but obviously... Well anyway, so it's back to prairie by saturday, this will be fun I think/hope. because if it's not fun then it's really going to suck. I want to be at Prairie for Natalie and also because I want to meet school with some new energy that I Was totally drained of last year. As well I wont be able to have anything extra curricular to hold me back because I wont be allowed to have anything like that of the sort because I'll be on AP, so I'll be looking forward to that too... sorta. I'm going to miss my friends, Nathaniel, Andrea and Jonathon, they've been my best friends consistantly over the last few years and when I leave and then come back again they treat me as if I never left. So it's going to be sad to leave them, because I feel like when I leave them I'm going to some superfiscial reality where everything is suddenly a soap opera and everyone over interprets everything you do and say and completely either under or over reacts to a situation and is anything but real with whatever issues or problems may exist. Well I should get some sleep now, I suppose whoever reads this that knows it exists I'll see you on sunday I hope, Tofu Current Mood:  listless | | Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005 | | 1:03 am |
Ranting and Ravings
So this is something odd I suppose eh? well if you know me you know I'm not a fan of consistancy in technology. nonetheless I have succomed to the depths of despair in technology, invested in a computer and I now have wireless internet... What on earth was I thinking? well anyways, so I have a grave dislike for technology of this nature because of its' impersonality and how it allows for such poor communication. maybe it's just because it's really difficult to flirt with Natalie over the email... hmm I guess other people will be reading this too. I guess I shouldn't mention that plant I have in my room either, well I guess since I'm from BC it's like a Cultural sort of thing... cultured indeed, hahaha. There is no plant. Anyways, So today I have come to the realization that I am a student and that is my primary obligation... so why does it never feel like it? like if someone wants to tell me something about what's going on in their life and how they feel or what kind of semester they have been having I automatically want to hear it. why? because I'm SU and I ran for the position because I love talking about what's wrong with our school because I want to make it better. it's frustrating like nothing else though because I have to deal with so much crap that is completely irrelavent to what I wanted to do. I really wanted to be involved because I wanted to see a change, my biggest frustration is with the stupidity by which our administration opperates... or fails to administer. My job is not to make a Yearbook, and it never has been, it was demanded of my commission and I got dumped on because somebody dropped the ball. I got sqrewed and had to pick up the pieces, why didn't anyone say: you should have an editor because it's not your job... and it would be just that simple. I'm so annoyed, and it frustrated me everyday because I can't help with what I wanted to, and no one will give me money to give to someone else making it easier for me just to say... this is your job and this is mine. I'm so annoyed. at the beginning of the semester it's not like I knew what I should have done, but I wanted to ask her for the money back, why am I the only one that sees this person as stealing? ARgGhhH, Are school is so backwards. And why is it that people can make money selling alchol over the summer but they just can't drink? why is holding hands a terrible thing, and if it is why is it permitted at all... why don't they allow it so people can actually be held accountable for the things that really matter? Why on earth do students have a curfew... are we not all in college? wouldn't student's be more accountalble to others on a much more personal level if they were able to exercise personal decisions for themselves instead of having to get movies approved by an RA checking the rating... and why on does prairie have a no debt policy when the majority of students and even faculty are in debt for funding their education? Does this school not seem backwards to anyone? I would quit SU if I wouldn't be leaving everyone high dry and not made some commitment to a school that doesn't even seem to care about being involved with others and actually contributing to the community. It seems to me the forced community approach aspect is sqrewed up and that the explore students have it right. They hold each other accountable, they have their own common intereasts and they are the most motivated and mature students on campus... why does everyone talk about social intigration with explore when the whole freaking school sits in the same area at dinner time anyways... I'm frustrated with this place and it's big brother rules, if people can be married that are younger then me isn't it maybe a better idea that we promote relations on campus where people can hold each other accountable and don't hide in dark corners to have private conversations? well... I think I'm done ranting... but definately not done complaining, something must be done! Tofu Current Mood:  aggravated | | Wednesday, August 18th, 2004 | | 1:08 pm |
My poor dog
I'm really worried about my dog, she's not looking very good, infact she looks aweful now. She has 4 major scars on her face that will probably never heal. She's about 10 and she does alot of stupid things, she keeps getting her head stuck in the gate. She some how likes to stick her head inbetween the spindles and she manages to get her head stuck there and then she get's these scars behind her head because of pulling so hard. yesteday I went and boarded up her fence so she couldn't stick her head through anymore and I made the mistake of using a flims 8th of an inch board. well, now I have a 3/4 inch board because she knocked it down. I kinda feel like I boarding her up, but it's not like I never take her out. well... once she knocked it down she went and stuck her head threw again and opened up all her scars. I'm worried that she's just getting old and cenile and we're going to have to put her down. like she willingly hurts herself, I don't know, I think it might be the thing to do though. I think I'm going to phone the vet and ask him what's normal and if maybe she's just gotten too old now. About ten years ago and like three weeks was when we first got her. well, I'm just worried about my dog, I think I'll take her to the lake and try and get her to go swimming to clean her wounds. Current Mood:  sad | | Friday, July 30th, 2004 | | 6:01 pm |
| | Friday, July 9th, 2004 | | 12:27 pm |
Confessionals?
well, if it was possible to do confessionals of my parents without actually calling them confessionals because I know Katie doesn't like it when I do them, though I do like calling them confessionals... anyways, here's what my parents have been saying lately: Dad: "you know, if Natalie doesn't work out Veronica still likes you, and she lives closer..." Mom: "So Nathan has a girlfriend does he?" Me: "Yeah, she lives even farther away then Natalie, she's from Ontario" Mom: "Ontario eh, well at least she's Canadian" Mom: "you know you could get diamond rings real cheap at Wallmart... She's born in April so you could get her a diamond ring anyway, it's her birthstone" Current Mood:  amused | | 12:16 pm |
lot's of spare time
Clearly there are many things that are wrong in the world and I obviously have too much spare time on my hands because yesterday I spent my morning writing my member of parliment, the priminister, the president, and the director of homeland security asking them to explain to me why it is that a trained member of the strongest military power in the world drops a bomb on his allies and only recieves a written repremand and a fine for ignoring orders to stand by, but a person who runs a red light and kills a person in an intersection faces jail time? well, anyways, I find it odd how we have two Americans in Canada right now who fled from the war on iraq and deserted their military and are trying to claim refugee status. if they really wanted to get out of the war they should have just bombed their allies, then they'd definately be free men, but now they could face jail time. Wow, I should really find a job, then I wouldn't have time to watch the news. Current Mood:  annoyed | | Wednesday, July 7th, 2004 | | 10:48 pm |
| | Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004 | | 11:01 pm |
God is Great!
So I was thinking about this today, my girlfriend is awesome, she always been so nice to me and God has really blessed me by putting her in my life. it seems odd to be thanking God while she is so far away, but I am greatful and God is faithful... so what's to worry about? it's just tough when she's not here and I worry about her lots, but I don't really worry about 'us' because I know that is totally a God thing. it's odd how before I left school I had this narrow Canadian cultural ideal and now I've developed a more American one so now alot of my ideals have really been turned upsidown. it's odd, before I was all choked at the USA for Iraq and the border tariffs and essentially destroying the Canadian economy, but now I really don't seem to mind that so much, like I do mind, but I just don't care anymore. I still hate the border stuff and I think the Americans are over parinoid about terrorists coming into the USA and blowing something up, but I do agree with them going into Iraq, but I don't like there reason for doing it (weapons that do not exist), but I like the way they have brought more peace then was there originally. anyways, that really has nothing to do with what I'm trying to write because I'm just saying that out of my first year of Bible college God did not change my perspective on anything at all, but when I went to the USA and when I met Natalie and she became my girlfriend (which happened at Bible college), that's when things started to change for me. I mean look at me now, I listen to country music (and like it), can drive a tractor, a desiel truck, and wears leather chaps with fringes to go out baling hay to make money. I'M WORKING ON A FARM NOW!!! anyways nothing at school really made much of an impact on my except my girlfriend and this is just because God has been good to me. My views on everything have changed so much, I look at things differently then I did a year ago and this is all because (the way I see it) because I have been blessed enough to have God let someone else into my life and mess things up a bit. God is great. ~Tofu Current Mood:  thankful | | Monday, May 31st, 2004 | | 10:32 pm |
Guys are jerks!!!
So, this is my problem, is it bad to not like people you don't even know? basically I have two friends (besides Natalie) that have these guys that they like and both of them (the guys) seem really really dumb to me not to catch a hint after such along time. I mean I'm a little slow, but I would notice I think after a while if a girl liked me, it just doesn't usually happen so... I think I would notice. I assume the stoy is the same with these to guys. I guess my other vent is that some are really really dumb and say things and say them because they think they have to? that's the stupidst thing I've ever heard and it really annoys me and makes me really upset because this is to people I actually care about. anyways, that kinda choked me too. anyways, so I really don't know any of these people either very well, or at all, but I do know the girls and I think if the girls wern't so nice they'd be done with them a while ago so here is my conclusion, girls are nice (at least some of them) and guys are jerks, (at least some of them). hmmm, so obviously that's sorta true, I'm not sure what I'm saying here but I think it's basically that I care about these people and it bugs me when guys blow away a girls self esteem in anyway because 'guys are jerks' so... that's my entry. this entry really has nothing to do with me, but it's just what's on my mind at the moment so there it is. ~Tofu Current Mood: aggravated | | Sunday, May 16th, 2004 | | 3:01 pm |
Missing Girlfriend: Blonde hair, Blue Eyes, 5'8, likes to go for long walks on snow covered roads...
So, I haven't completely figured this out, but pretty much everything makes me think of Natalie. I can't even put peanutbutter on my breakfast Bagle with our being reminded of Natalie's unusual peanutbutter craze back at school. I can't look at a flat horizon in a movie without thinking of Kansas. Yesterday I watched a movie about some angel, (I'm sure there was something heretical in it) and what do they do in it? they go and see the worlds largest ball of twine. it's odd. I can't hear a single country song with out thinking of Natalie, though I'm sure that has something to do with all country music, my brother calls it "glorified whinning" though I am starting to like it odd enough. She's become the only reason I check my email (though she's the only one who emails me too so that may be a good reason why). It's odd. I can't walk out side without thinking of our unusally long and traditional walks with hands on the verge of frost bite. anyways, I'm not complaining, I like having everything remind me of her, I'd be a little worried if a day ever went by when I'm not reminded of her in some way for a while. So I'm not really venting I suppose, just day dreaming... do I sound obsessive? ~Tofu Current Mood:  nostalgic | | Tuesday, May 11th, 2004 | | 12:43 pm |
Phone Cards
This is also part of an email I sent to Natalie, same deal as last time, but it serves as a partial record of my day. I had an odd arguement with the person on the other line though when I worked it out though, they were telling me that it would be 150 minutes to 200 hundred minutes calling from the USA, they were obviously wrong because I had a calculator in front of me and I did the math. if it was a 150 minutes then the cost would be that of 6 cents a minute for a 10 dollar card. if it was 200 minutes the rate would be far greater. she then said tht she doubted it would be lower then 100 cents a minute. I said will could you do the math, and she says "I don't have a calculator" and I'm doing the math right as she says it on the computer with our calculator and it's only 80 minutes calling the long distance from the USA, which is no where near 200 to 150 minutes. I said why did you tell me it was a 150 to 200 minutes, she says I just guessed. Anyways, you don't have to be a mathamatician to figure out when someone is telling a lie and so I totally caught her on it and did the math myself. so... my word of advice is, don't trust the people on the phone to tell you the truth, as customer service personal just make stuff up to keep people ignorant. Current Mood:  accomplished | | Monday, May 10th, 2004 | | 9:52 pm |
Ready to sleep.
This is actually part of an email that I sent to Natalie, but none of this is really exclusive information and is really a summary of my day so... I've made it a lj entry too. So I called the winery today, they offered to have me in for a job interview at 3:30 this afternoon. So, I had breakfast, then I showered. Then I realized I have no bus pass to get there and it's raining outside. so I decided it would be better to get wet now and go get a bus pass then ride my bicycle in the rain to a job interview and show up all wet and sweaty and gross. So... I did. I rode my bike in the rain, along side the highway and got soken wet and kinda muddy and gross on both my front an backsided because no nomal person has a bike with a cover over the wheels. anyways I got my bus pass and rode back home. after I got home it was 1:00, I went and had a bath for a half an hour making it 1:30, I then basically read and messed around on the the computer, and polished my shoes that are old and too tight until 2:45 when I had to leave to be at the bus stop for 3:00. If you know me fairly well you would know I hate to be late for anything important. well, anyways I made it to my interview ok, and I think I looked pretty good, too bad I didn't have Natalie around to whistle. So I make it there on time, in fact I'm 10 minutes early, which is fine, and pretty standard if you want to impress anyone. well, as it turns out the guy doing the interview is running a bit late, tells me to wait 10-15 minutes early. to me it sounds like I shouldn't have been so early, like I should have give hime a little time to prepare. well 25 minutes later, (3:45), he finally gets around to talking to me because a schedual got messed around. I think he talked to me for a total of 5-7 minutes. Arghh, so I spent about 2 hrs getting ready for a 5 minute interview. on top of that I miss my bus coming back because he's running late. so I spend an extra two hours in the area of Brentwood, which I suppose could be like what Everett is to Seattle minus the guns and smaller pop. when I'm there I grab 2 small pizzas and head for the bus stop to eat my pizza as I wait for the next bus. I get home and its 5:30. I've eaten an entire 6 piece small pizza and another 2 pieces of the other one. I don't know if I'll get the job, if I do it will be because of the experience and not my presentation of myself because he didn't really even sit down. oh well I guess that's how it goes sometimes. ~Tofu Current Mood: disappointed | | Sunday, May 9th, 2004 | | 5:45 pm |
Orphaned.
So my parents have gone to europe, I'm wondering when exactly their going to be back home again. I've been orphaned on Mother's day so unlike every other person who has plans on mothers day I'll just be at home. I just hope my parents went to the worl championships in praag, I hope the decided to represent. I've taken the effort during this time to put a little Canadian patch on my sweat pants also, and I have managed to succesivley poke a hole right through the fleshy part of thumb with the blunt end of a needle. last time I poked the blunt end of my 'pointer toe' on my right foot, now it's my right hand. oh well soon enough they will be home. I also managed to get a job interview at a Winery in Victoria, I really want the job, I think it'd be really fun to be in the student union and write an article in the monthly magazine about how I ended up working in a Winery during the summer to pay for Bible college, could you imagine the looks on the faces of the Alumni? it'll be great if I get the job. I did manage to get a part time job however, so in the meantime while I hope to get a fulltime job, I'll at least have a part time job. oh well, I can't wait to tell my parents. ~Tofu... I miss the people that used to call me that. | | Wednesday, May 5th, 2004 | | 5:51 pm |
Today
Today I took a bicycle ride around the touristy areas of victoria, mainly downtown. on my way down however the chain guard off of my ne bicycle fell right off. I was not impressed with this disruption of my peaceful bikeride. nor was I impressed on my ride home either when the chain well off on the large spoke. anyways I was gone for a total of 4.5 hours on my bike ride and I think I only spent at most an hour in down town so the rest of it was spent on my bicycle just riding around. I was riding very slowly however because the ride home I was only using one hand because the other hand had a drink in it so you can't go incredibly fast when your drinking, it's all about drinking responsibly (I was not drinking anything bad, don't get any idea emma). well, that's about all that's really intereasting that went on today, other then the weather outside is absolutley beautiful and I wonder if I'm going to find out later I have a sun burn? | | Friday, April 2nd, 2004 | | 8:11 am |
Quotes from Katie...
"Well it was an open shower so I saw him..." If you want to know the context, it has something to do with Rum. lol | | 7:57 am |
Natalie's friend
So Natalie has this odd friend who for some reason asked Natalie if we were going to break up for the summer... really ODD. for some reason she drew the conclusion that because it may be difficult or hard it may not be worth following through on. She also has some wierd logic on dating for fun. something to do with trying out 'different flavors of icecream' definatley wacked, she also drew the conclusion that there was/is very little difference bt/w friends and girlfriend/boyfriend... needless to say, she's must be single. I really don't understand how someone could be down for some 'short-term-dating' thing, it just doesn't make sense for the simple reason that you invest your self into a person and then suddenly break it off? her logic was that because it's the same as being friends then there's no loss when it comes to dating. there's obviously some problems with Natalie's friend and guys I think, I'd hate to be some 'flavor of the month' or not know that while I'm thinking long term she's thinking till the end of the summer. I can't stand illogical people. ARGHH Anyways, the point is Natalie and I are both in agreement that Natalie's friend is a few fries short of a happy meal and probably has some issue with commitment of any level. not to be harsh but that's basically what she's said about herself. But Natalie is great, and that's the point. ~Tofu | | 7:40 am |
So...
So, I now find it entirely hard to believe that classes are over this time next week, and not only that but school is over in 2 weeks, and in 3 weeks I will be in Kansas, and in 4 I will be home... April is bound to be the fastest month of my life, (or feel like the longest). In anycase life will be good up until the 3rd week; after that I'll be a lonely fellow. when I get back from Kansas my parents will be leaving for holland 1 day after I get back. and... I've left Kansas so... Natalie's back there while I'm in victoria and my parents are gone, and I'll only have one brother who'll be around for only part of it cause he'll be working full time while I'm out looking for a job and the other one is staying somewhere else cause he's bound to be trouble if Karl and I have to listen to him. So I'll be all alone getting my bicycle fixed and then dropping and making resumes all over the place cause it's incredibly difficult to find a job in Victoria. anyways, I will be bored and lonely this summer for quite sometime. Current Mood:  blah | | Sunday, March 14th, 2004 | | 9:40 pm |
Random events`
So, speaking of random, in the last 5 days I've gone flying, skating twice, have to assignments due tommorow and the next day (one worth 20% and the other 30%) and had a stray cat follow Natalie and I to the dorms. Natalie seems to have this thing with attracting fuzzy soft animals. So speaking of random, or as Natalie said yesterday "This may sound kind of random..." out of nowhere, Natalie gets the impression that I have tried to kiss her or something, JK SHE NEVER HAD THAT IMPRESSION, but the randomness gave me the impression that is what was up. anyways so we're sitting in the foyer watching this stray cat mew at the door and Natalie says "This may sound kind of random but I'm not going to let you kiss me any time soon." "Uhhhhh, I didn't know I had tried to..." anyways, as it stands to all who are reading this I never tried nor insinuated, Natalie was just being well... RANDOM. So anyways we agreed that our lips shall never meet until we are married, and we even shook on it, and for some reason Natalie wanted to "pinkey-promise" on it, (because swearing is wrong). I MUST STRESS TO ALL READING THIS THAT I HAVE NEVER HAD NOR TRIED TO KISS NATALIE, NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! INCASE YOUR READING THIS AND SUDDENLY THINK THATS WHY THE SUBJECT WAS BROUGHT UP, YOUR WRONG, WRONG, AND WRONG. anyways, now that that's cleared up I have some homework to do. ~Tofu Current Mood:  indescribable | | Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 | | 9:29 pm |
Quotes from Katie
" Your just jelous cause your boyfriend doesnt... oh wait, he's not my boyfriend, opps. " ~Katie Current Mood: amused |
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