Time flies when you're having fun

[GaryE]

This morning around 9:15, I decided to run out to the fishroom for 45 minutes - we had a rare for here power blackout in last night's storm and there were lights to reset, plus I had to do a small water change. Out I went through the teeming rain, and into the wondrous space of the fishroom.
I did the basics, then decided I could be inspired by a thread here and reset my whiteworm cultures. After that, I thought I could move some killies to their own breeding tank, as they had grown to the right age. I fiddled with filters, tried to catch and move my Microctenopoma ansorgii to their own tank (there's one crafty one I can't get - she dives into the tangles of peace lily roots along the back - her wild cousin species charged into streambank roots in the same way).
I watched the dwarf Cichlids for a bit, checked the progress of the treatment for nematodes in my new Epiplatys annulatus, and was pleased with both. So I grabbed my jacket to scoot back in and noticed it was noon.

45 minutes, eh? How many of you you have a tendency to get lost in your tank or tanks, when you let yourself?

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I have my tanks in two buildings and 4-5 rooms depending ot the season. While I have duplicated a lot of the basics like cans., hoses and pumps and some other things to both buildings, a lot of the things I use get moved back and forth. Sometime I am not quite sure where I left spomething and I need to get it. So I head to another room or building.

When I get ther and start to look around for whatever, I get distracted by something I see in a tank. If can be as simple as a plnat having been uprooted. So I stop to fix that and then spot a pile of uneaten food and i am reaching for the siphon. I have days where I start a 15 minute task in one tank in a specific room and hours later it is sill not done.

Dang you multiple tank syndrome.

 

[Back in the fold]

There’s no clock in my fishroom . I don’t want to be rushed . I have the questionable luxury of having to answer to no one but still I let other things make their own schedule that I feel I have to adhere to . I can get lost in a project or task easily and lose track of time and it’s really easy with my fish .

 

[gwand]

As Einstein posited, time is relative. Sometimes I think it is an illusion. Then I look in the mirror.

 

[Back in the fold]

As Einstein posited, time is relative. Sometimes I think it is an illusion. Then I look in the mirror.

Time is an invention of man . The sun appears and disappears with the revolving of the earth . Us ? We grow through our life cycle like any other living thing . The mirror only shows our current point in that cycle . I like how aboriginal people don’t pay any attention to clocks and calendars . My cat doesn’t wear a watch and he seems to do okay .

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Your cat doesn't need to tell time, nature does it for the cat. It eats when hungry not at mealtime. It sleeps when it is tired. Were it feral it would have it hair grow much longer for winter and less so to summer.

Before humans had watches or even calendars, we did OK.

But it is wrong to confuse the measurement of the passage of time with the existence of time itself. If time did not exists we could go in either directions there would be no constraints.

I am not a Trafalmadoran. The Tralfamadorians are an alien species.....

The Tralfamadorians are fatalists – they believe that everything is predestined and that nothing can be done to change the course of the universe. They can time travel and do not view time linearly: “All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

The way to think of the timeline of someone’s life,........ is not as a straight line, as we tend to think, but similar to a book. When you hold a book in your hands, you hold the entire story, start to finish; every event in the book has already been written. While we are logically programmed to read the book from start to end, this is not the only way to experience its events. You can open the book to any page, any time in the story and you will be able to experience that event even if it is done out of order. This is the idea of time as a fourth dimension, beyond the three dimensions of space.

Both the above are from the book "Slaughterhouse-Five." This sees time like a long "worm" and it is possible to move between any points in the "worm?" rather than only moving in a linear fashion. The Trafalmadorians can do this but we humans have not learned how to do this.

edtited to change time line to time like in the last paragrapg and correct spelling errors

 

[Magnum Man]

my main tanks are in my bedroom... some days I don't want to get out of bed...