Weekend Wrap-up

Astute readers of Cellar Door may have noticed a complete lack of updates on what I've been doing since just after Valentine's Day. While my immediate comment would be "Not much", that would, in fact, be a lie. Several things have happened, and while none of them is particularly interesting or ripe for a story, taken as a whole I may be able to write something worthy of a post.

Friday evening was spent at Butters' place, with friends in tow to celebrate the fact that we actually managed to congregate in one area. While the celebration was shorter than I may have liked, and despite having no real plan, we had quite a bit of fun. My energy level was much higher that normal, which hopefully added a bit of flair to the evening. ( I'm up to 9 pieces of flair now, by the way. ) I don't know if I should attribute my energy to the combined presence of so many friends, or the fact that I was still wound up from a really good workout just before I came. Either way, I think we all agreed that it needs to happen with greater frequency. ( The get togethers, not my energy. )

What did I do Saturday? "Michael, I did nothing. I did nothing and it was everything I thought it could be." I almost didn't leave my room Saturday. I caught up on some long overdue rest, and read about 600 pages. ( Which, for me, means I pretty much read all day. ) Little else I can add here really, so I'll take a little bow.

Today started off with a trip to John Newbie's Coral Reef Aquatics. I finally ordered the metal halide lights I've been wanting for forever ( 2 250watt @ 14k, for saltwater geeks who may be reading ). They should be in stock in about a week. Today I picked up about 35lb of beautiful Tonga rock, and 5 Blue Chromis. The Chromis are cool because they'll kinda school together, which I always thought was quite a beautiful thing to watch fish do.

For the sake of this update, I've just snapped a few quick tank shots and upped them to my Flickr account ( link on the right ). Please excuse the mess my tank is currently in, but my lazy ass still hasn't set up the refugium, so the heaters, pumps, and skimmer are still dangling at all angles from the display tank itself. I should be motivated to clean all that up this week, since it will need to be moved to make room on top for the new lights.

Also had a chance to work out with both my brothers today, which I don't think we've ever done before. Hopefully we'll be trying to make a habit out of it every Sunday. Afterward, we settled in to watch the NBA All-Star game, which was pretty fun. I haven't watched an All-Star game since the early 90s.

Well, that about wraps it up. Tomorrow night will be a visit with Jonathan, so hopefully we'll have some cool new shows under our belt when next I blog.