Nivita calls last night. The Jain fasting plan this year is every other day for the rest of the week. Good thing I got my gyro in last night. Today, just water. And maybe some booze after sundown, since Tim is in town.
Going back and reading my old Jain posts, I realize we have a fish update that is long overdue. And realized that I can quell my desire for food, while not having to worry about the boozing. Maybe I’ll be a 1.75 for today…maybe make up for it by fasting more. Maybe not.
The 5 new fish from the old post – they’re still around. The 1 survivor fish isn’t. I don’t even remember what it was. And the snail population got eliminated by our puffer fish. He grew and grew and grew. And then we forgot to feed him. So he became a skeleton. We switched to feeding dried worms to the fish – and the 5 others love those, but the puffer didn’t. And when we finally got around to getting snails for him (just lazy – took like a month!) it was too late.
And the puffer just went “poof” – we don’t know where his body is.
Then about a week later, the snails were dead too. For a while, Catherine wanted to create a snail farm, since the snails were like a buck and she didn’t want to keep spending that much on puffer food. But once the puffer died, that was a moot point and there was also this issue with the sex of the snails that Catherine didn’t figure mattered, but nature kind of says it does.
Regardless, we think the water might have been too salty for the snails.
I got a voice mail this morning – I fell asleep before Sal last night apparently – and one can hear Sal talking to me, then asking why I’m not talking back…and moms would convince him to keep on leaving me a message, and he would, till he’d get distracted with “Why can’t daddy talk?”
What a handful…