Babble - 2-2-04

Er, um, er...

So on Saturday we went skiing up at Sierra at Tahoe with my friends Cynthia and Deepali. We went for just a day trip, leaving at 5 am and getting home at 7 pm. The snow was icy, but it was still a ton of fun. I pushed myself this time, tackling some harder blues and only falling once. Whee!

Anyways, we stopped in the lodge to grab some lunch, and as I'm walking back to our table, some guy taps me on the shoulder. I look back at him, and he says, very matter-of-factly, "Hi." I don't recognize this guy at all, so I just give him a half smile and walk away. So he continues to stare at me, and it's really freaking me out. I sit down at our table where Marc, Deepali and Cynthia are already sitting, and he's still staring at me. Totally creepy. So I tell them what happened, and Marc gets pissed, and says, fairly loudly, "A little young for you, don't you think?" Embarrassed, I just hope the guy didn't hear that.

After that, I don't give the incident any more thought. Then today, as I'm walking through the coffee area at work, I glance over at a bunch of people who are sitting around chatting and drinking coffee. One of the guys there is looking at me, and it's kind of creepy. So I'm thinking, "hmm, that guy looks familiar....OHHHHHH." Apparently, I work with ski guy. And I realize that I've seen this guy tons of times around work, but I totally didn't recognize him when I saw him in Tahoe. Yeah, I'm that bad with faces. After realizing this, I had to run back to my office because I was about to bust a gut with laughter.

Next time I see the guy, I suppose I'll have to make amends, hehe.

Catquarium

So last night I filled the aquarium with saltwater, and started setting it up. (See the Fish Diary.) This morning I woke up and noticed that the cats weren't in the bedroom, and hadn't been in the room all night like they usually were. It dawns on me that I'd forgotten to put the top on the tank when I'd finished. I head downstairs, afraid that I was going to find a cat floating in the aquarium. Luckily, I didn't. Instead, what I found was Snuggles sitting on the kitchen counter looking at the tank, and Stubby standing on the glass piece that went across the middle of the tank! Poor cat looked a bit confused, like he had no idea how the heck he was going to get off of there, and I have no idea how long he was up there. He seemed glad to see me though.

Oopsie, math error

When I exchanged our protein skimmer for the new filter, I ended up with a $10 dollar store credit. The guy who was helping me, Matt, seemed to have a little trouble figuring out how to make the adjustment on my credit slip. He crossed out the original $100 credit that I had on there, and wrote, "Balance, $90." I didn't notice this till after, and I figured it was probably some way they did it at the store that made sense to them but not to me. So today I went back to the store to buy some live rock for the tank. It ended up costing $50 plus tax, and I handed the guy (a different guy) my credit slip first. He took it, and gave it back to me with $35 credit on it. I told him I should've only had $10 credit on there. So he gave me $5 off for "being so honest." Which was cool. I could've walked out of there no problem with free stuff plus more credit, but I believe in karmic debt. ;)

OMFG

Tonight I finished setting up the new wet/dry filter. Talk about a PAIN. I had to get it done though, because I had $50 worth of live rock sitting in bags waiting to go into the tank. That reminds me, I still have half of my spaghetti dinner that I set aside to finish working on the damn thing sitting in the microwave. Anyways, head over to the Fish Diary to read more about it.

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