Anniversary Trip

Sonya and I celebrated our 3 year Anniversary this weekend and into the week. We went to Emerald Isle on the outer banks of NC. As you can tell from these pictures...we had a great time :-) Sonya is 22 weeks now and still looked great in a bathing suit. We went to the aquarium, walked around Beaufort, and spend some time on the beach hanging out. It was a great time to rest and relax with not too much on the agenda. We're back home now and are sure looking forward to going to work tomorrow...at least one of us is.

Office Tank

There have been several changes in the office tank. A little while ago during a frag swap I purchased a ricordia. Later I purchased some Zoanthid's with my coworker Pete. These had been in his tank along with some of my rocks until my tank was stable. Well the rock I got had been at least partially cured and my water chemistry levels were right on. My amonia, nitrite and nitrate levels were all zero (or close to it). So I added some critters. A Zoanthid frag

Another Zoanthid frag.

My Ricordia.

This is a frag of Josh's Xenia. It will look better once it's attached to the rock and we don't have to hold it on with netting and rubber bands.

The tank.

I used Josh's camera to take these pics. So they are much higher quality. Unfortunatly this picks up some stuff that I don't really want it to, like water drop smudges.

I also got three blue leg hermit crabs to help start cleaning things up. I'm pretty excited. Things are moving along nicely.

Office Tank

So I decided to just update the office tank posts once a month, or when significant changes occur. I bought a piece of live rock for my tank this week. I had been planning for a while to get this aquacultured live rock from Florida, but I had a bunch of store credit at a local fish store, so I used it to get this 7.5 lb piece of rock instead. It has pretty coraline algae growing on it and I really like the shape. Now I have to wait. The tank has to "cycle" which involves the build up of beneficial bacteria to eat waste.
I'll post another update when something fun happens.

More Pictures!

On Friday we got to see our baby man again. On our last ultrasound they saw some "bright spots" on his heart, so they wanted to check him out a little more. Our doctor was great and said our baby looked wonderful. He has a "beautiful heart" and long limbs. :-) he currently weighs (at 19 weeks) around 11oz. We praise God for knitting our baby so well.

In the first picture you can see that our baby is definitly a Tarheel :-) he has all 5 toes :-) it is also good to see what will be kicking me alot in the future :-)

The second picture shows his arm and 5 fingers, thumb is pointing up.

enjoy!

pie

I was just reading some documentation for VMware resource management and it had an interesting example in it that got me thinking. The example was dealing with dividing resources and it compared it to pieces of pie. So I'll pose the question as this.

If you were given one piece of pie and your sister was given two pieces of pie, who would have more pie?

This is where my wife would say, "I don't understand you smart people; sometimes you can be so clueless."

Now most of you would probably say the sister is getting more pie, but for people like me and the people that wrote the VMware documentation we have to say I don't know. It depends on if the sizes of pie are all the same. It's this kind of thinking that sets people like me apart and makes me do poorly on standardized tests. And it's thinking like this that sometimes makes my wife think I'm pretty stupid sometimes. :-) Sometimes she's right ;-)