What are you doing today?

[TheLavenderBadger]

Today I'm going rock-climbing at a gym in the morning. Later, I'm going to do a deep-clean on my five gallon because all of the fish and decor are out of it for the moment.
Also really looking forward to seeing if @WhistlingBadger's waterfall works!

 

[xxEMOxLIZZARDxx]

Traveled down to Philly last night.
Have brunch with friends this morning.
Dinner with my parents and in laws as well
Basketball game at 7:30pm tonight.
Tomorrow is just as busy.

 

[jaylach]

With dread in my heart I did water tests this evening and was a bit amazed. It was one of those cases where I was just distracted by other things and 'I'll do the tests tomorrow' syndrome. It went one and on... It was the same with water changes. It has been probably a month and a half for either in a little 20 gallon cube.

Oddly everything is OK. In this small of a tank I was a bit surprised but not in general as to larger tanks. This evening's test results were as follows.
PH -- 6.2
Ammonia -- 0.25... not a factor as with other parameters it equates to like 0.0004 bad ammonia.
Nitrites -- 0.0
Nitrates -- 10-15 PPM.

With my tank being heavily planted I attribute the health to the plants. Since I often scoop out moldy meal worms that neither the cichlids or rope fish eat I really expected the nitrate level to be off the wall but they are OK.

I also give credit for these good results to my using under gravel filtration along with the built in sponge filter. There is just no other filter system that gives as much filter area as under gravel.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I might listen to too much music

This is from the past 10 days

 

[JuiceBox52]

I might listen to too much music

This is from the past 10 days
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No such thing

 

[JuiceBox52]

Today my printer cooperated for once (it’s a miracle, I know) and I got all my stuff printed, only messed up three times and got 100 things printed!

 

[Deleted member 149562]

Starting to get a distinct feeling of doom over my DIY curtain pole installation.

The curtains arrived yesterday as indicated by the supplier.

No sign of the curtain pole.....hmmmmmm.

Both coming from same supplier, both with March 4th delivery date.

Was planning to remove the old and install the new today.

Looked at the supplier website....curtain pole has been dispatched and is to be delivered by DHL....checked the DHL website....it arrived in the wee small hours of March 3rd...."To Be Delivered on March 6th" (Why didn't they deliver it on Friday)

So my appointment with fear (namely standing on the top step of the ladder when terrified of heights and with drill in hand) has been delayed til Tuesday at the earliest........me, up a ladder, with drill in hand, trying to keep balance and not shiver with fear, whilst fixing a 12ft long curtain pole single handed and fitting eyelet top curtains (that weigh a ton).......a potentially disastrous day filled with lots of unladylike words cometh methinks.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

No such thing

Last year I just just shy of 80,000 minutes listened

 

[Alice B]

With dread in my heart I did water tests this evening and was a bit amazed. It was one of those cases where I was just distracted by other things and 'I'll do the tests tomorrow' syndrome. It went one and on... It was the same with water changes. It has been probably a month and a half for either in a little 20 gallon cube.

Oddly everything is OK. In this small of a tank I was a bit surprised but not in general as to larger tanks. This evening's test results were as follows.
PH -- 6.2
Ammonia -- 0.25... not a factor as with other parameters it equates to like 0.0004 bad ammonia.
Nitrites -- 0.0
Nitrates -- 10-15 PPM.

With my tank being heavily planted I attribute the health to the plants. Since I often scoop out moldy meal worms that neither the cichlids or rope fish eat I really expected the nitrate level to be off the wall but they are OK.

I also give credit for these good results to my using under gravel filtration along with the built in sponge filter. There is just no other filter system that gives as much filter area as under gravel.

You did tests? I quit doing those as soon as I was sure everyone was cycled. I did water changes on the 10s last week, 29 38 55 and 40 are due in a day or so. I do not do weekly water changes. I am sufficiently planted to hold nitrates down and my tanks are well cycled. Today I dig drainage ditches. Foundation work is done, ground locally is saturated, I have an under foundation float activated sump pump, more rain due next week and I do not want my foundation wrecked again. Did one ditch, use dirt for birm, and get pond liner from foundation across ground into and under the back of house drain line.
The AC section is a huge problem, couldn't get drain behind it, ground really too soft to try to add gutters. Most of the water under the house is coming thru the soil, not off the roof, but you can't see the tip on the AC unit - it's leaned a little toward the house since January 2019 at least, the 9 inch rain after grade downhill raised was late September 2018, water got trapped under my house. Obviously I am really boring and not having much fun.

 

[connorlindeman]

Trying to learn Passacaglia on the piano. It's harder than it looks!

 

[connorlindeman]

I think today is the day I get the waterfall working in the new build. Stay tuned...

Did it end up working?

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Did it end up working?

Yes, but I'm not satisfied with it. Modifications are underway. More soon...

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Trying to learn Passacaglia on the piano. It's harder than it looks!

Which one?

 

[connorlindeman]

Which one?

This one

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The left hand is a bit irregular which makes it challenging.

 

[connorlindeman]

I've been trying to practice sight-reading music more.
I started playing by ear when I was like 6 years old. I can hear a song, and then play it on the piano almost immediately with no music.
I never took any lessons till I was maybe 12. Reading music has always been challenging for me because once I hear the music once, I don't need to read the music anymore. I can just play it.
That has kinda been something that held me back from learning to sight-read well.
I have to intentionally read the music. It's actually hard to do.