Meglet Rambles On

Even in this age of iTunes and MP3 stores, I still prefer to buy my music on CDs. There’s just something about opening a box, unwrapping a CD, reading the liner notes, and having that shiny silver disc to hold. Not that I don’t load all my CDs into iTunes for easy access from my [...]

After last weekend’s major tank rebuilds, I noticed that the 3 Otocinclus Catfish (Ottos, for short) in the 40 gallon hexagon tank were acting a little oddly. The 2 smaller ones had gotten very pale, and lost their stripe. All 3 of them were much more active than they had been, chasing each other around [...]

Doesn’t this make you feel cooler just looking at it?

Mini Waterfall, originally uploaded by Meghan A.

Warning: long, geeky wall of text ahead!
 
Going into the holiday weekend, I had “To-Do” list that just had a couple big items on it. Nothing outrageously insane, just some things I wanted to get done since I had an extra day off work.

Rebuild the 46 gallon bow-front fish tank and move the Cherry Barbs [...]

Between work, life, and sprained ankles, I haven’t had as much time to put into my fish tanks lately as I usually do. So this weekend, I’ve decided it’s time for some serious maintenance.
To start the weekend, I took the 6 Congo Tetras that lived in the 46 gallon bowfront tank back to the store. [...]

I have fond memories of frozen Lemon Pepper (fake) Chicken that used to be delivered by the Schwann’s people. Yesterday I was inspired to search the web for a recipe that would allow me to create something similar but better. After a few tries, I found a recipe that looked like it would produce something [...]

A few weeks ago, I thought I had the beta version of Windows 7 working on my iMac, using Boot Camp to boot directly into Windows. Turns out, I almost had it working. It was installed, I could log in and access programs, but it would lock up randomly, anywhere from 30 seconds to an [...]