SEA MONKEY LOG
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Day 92 2:10 PM MST: This week the sea monkeys continue to swim around their little bowl happy shouting out anti-Microsoft slogans and complaining about the issues of routing IPX and keeping the traffic off one network and on to the other. Oh wait that was me except for the part about swimming in the bowl. Got some decent video of these guys this time and you can open them up below. I find it very strange that monk.avi shows some odd behavior by swimming straight down and trying to swim through the bottom of the bowl. You can see this by looking at the right side of the AVI and seeing the sea monkey dive down to the bottom and a second later a large amount of sediment explode from where the poor little guy tried to burrow through the plastic on the bottom of the tank. We appear to have a dominant male in the tank he is bright orange and has a huge mustache (its what he uses to grab on to the female sea monkeys with). He just keeps cruising along the tank looking for a quickly or some other male to beat up on. He must also be pretty viral as 4 of the other 6 sea monkeys have egg sacks hanging from them. So what are the other 2 sterile or males, only in time will we actually know what they are or maybe we will never know.

Day 100 10:00AM MST: lets give the sea monkeys a hand for 100 days of life. Well not quite as day one was filling the tank and another day or so of the sea monkeys just enjoying their eggs and hanging out wondering if they really wanted to make their appearance on the internet. It looks like the sea monkeys might even out live the camera (don t think it was meant to handle 24/7 run time must have been made for Microsoft). Well back to the tank (not the shark tank they are done go AVS.) we have childrens yep I ve seen about 3 very small little monkeys swimming around the bottom of the mountain range.  Strange, that somehow they look cuter then the adults (not that either of them are so cute I wouldn t squash one with my thumb if I found it climbing up my arm) is it true that the smaller something is the cuter it is?  The sea monkey tank also got disrupted yesterday as I was cleaning my desk and the aquarium almost got knocked over and tested the sea monkeys ability to swim in damp carpet. The stressful life of the sea-monkey.

Day 132 1:01PM MST ok sue me another month gone by with no update and now 32 days later I show up like nothing has changed. Well for the most part it hasn't sea monkey world is flourishing and full of lots of new little shrimps. Unfortunately our Alpha male sea-monkey passed away during my vacation/birthday week (that's right I try not to be even close to work during my birthday it's a good traight I learned from my older brother. Yes its true I miss out on free drinks and such from friends but I also miss out on the bone heads that suddenly become caring friends who want to know how old I am what time of day I was born and how I feel now that I'm older {I feel the same grumpy}). It was sad to see the poor corpse on the bottom of the tank just turning black ( I wonder if it the oxidizing of the sodium of the sea-monkey ) and decomposing. But in its place are a few livelier exvertebrates swimming around in his place. Overall the tank seems to be happy and swimming around waiting for the next feeding (hopefully I come back to be a sea-monkey if reincarnation is the status quo)

Day 147 10:20 AM MST: Life in the Ocean of light continues at its hectic pace like a piece of jell-o melting on a February evening. The race to become large sea-monkeys is on again for the 7-10 crustaceans this time with what appears to be 2 reddish brown males jockeying for position of alpha sea-monkey leader of the harem. It aught to be like a wrestling match to decide the winner I just don't know how to get the squared circle in the tank. But I think we could sell tickets by having the supersonic sea-monkey versus the large Lobtrosity. Hey I'm reaching but I think it beats watching Mike Tyson bite someone and maybe I can sell the rights to the WWF. Well aside from all that there is nothing more to say but I have added another AVI to the bottom of the web page. Just so you can verify they are still alive.

Day 188 10:20 AM MST:Life in the Ocean of light is still going on were down to 2 sea monkeys for a while there. Sorry no update was just a bit busy at work. But hey didn't crash my car this time there was a gap. Discovered sea monkeys really need a more saline environment to be happy as when there is less of a saline content in the water they tend to be more lethargic and not breed but when the saline levels rise (due to evaporation of the water) eggs start to hatch and the sea monkeys swim around more vigorously. But now the population is exploding yet again went from 2 large beasts to about 20 now most being very small (same size as about day 21) a cleaning is in order for them but as I am slow with just about everything that involves cleaning the monkeys get to swim around the corpses of their dearly departed relatives (not that I think they care) the still swim around looking like they are very happy there isn't a goldfish lurking.

Day 245 3:36 PM MST: Good to the last drop. No not your usual thought when you think of sea monkeys but finally after waiting for the last step of my latest homebrew project, the great stout was consumed and I called it good. I named it "Sea-monkey stout" and maybe it's the fact that I have been drinking pretty boring beers for the summer but this batch is good, damn good. You can read about it on its own web page here http://home.attbi.com/~jimblish/beer.html Life in the ocean of light is pretty much going on as usual sea monkeys swimming around mating giving birth dieing and going through it all over again. This generation doesn't even seem to mind the gigantic semi daily onslaught of aeration. Perhaps it is the generations and generations of sea monkeys that have been force-fed sea-monkey crack and now their little brains have degenerated into the way sea monkeys were 20 thousand years ago. Perhaps I need to be arrested under the laws of zero tolerance against drug pushers 10 years for me in the big house. Heck the ASPCA has more then enough documentation that I have collected on myself for cruelty to crustaceans. With all that said I have been wondering of the effects of electric currency through inhabited saline solutions, or if anyone has seen the effect of boiling crab legs in a microwave. With all the reality shows on television would survivor sea-monkeys be a good idea? Or have internet votes to kick a member out of the tank with the reproduction cycles of sea monkeys we could have a long running show (almost as boring as the original) before you start thinking it's a genius idea I'm defiantly copying the big brother life in a fish bowl from modern humorist http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0007/bigbrother/index.cfm Send votes ideas on how to make the sea monkeys more entertaining to jimblish@attbi.com. I might even do something based on ideas that are returned. Then again I might just be boring and not do anything :-).

Day 458 5:00 PM MST: OK OK OK OK sorry this is most definitely the longest between sea monkey updates 213 days since the last update I'm sorry and hopefully it will not happen again but no promises. Yes these are the relatives of the same sea monkeys we started with over a year ago. Water still hasn't been changed since the last time I wrote about it (you can tell with the cloudy aspect of the water) they are still happy still having a bit of food once in a while a dose of crack every month and the overly shocking amount of Jacuzzi bubbles 2 times a week. Over all the sea monkeys have been working on a GUI interface for configuring Linux firewalls and have mostly just swam around drawing dirty pictures on their white boards. So now we have decided to put them back under micromanagement and 24 hour camera surveillance. One thing the Sea monkeys have done is start working on their Stanley cup play-off bracket and amazingly kept it up to date with scores "usually" up minutes after the games have ended. One night they seemed to have gotten a bit tipsy and didn't update the page until the next morning. You can see their work at www.jimblish.com/stan/. Well amazingly enough the sea monkeys have no new news although they are holding back with a lot of secrets at the moment.

Day 484 11:50 AM MST: 1 Year 119 days and an unfortunate accident claims the lives of the Ocean of Light inhabitants. As the Sea Monkeys quietly swam around innocently wondering when the next batch of crack was going to be delivered and horrible freedom was forced upon them. I was moving my computer set a bit and moved the monitor around in order to get a couple of the wires untangled and suddenly there was the unmistakable sound of dripping water. I quickly searched around for something thinking "good going Jim you just dumped an old beer all over your workspace." As I continued to look around I found to my horror the source of the aquatic sounds. Sea-Monkey diamonds all over and water seeping through my desk and down into a puddle on the carpet right below my computer. As I looked frantically around for sea monkeys I knew at once that the rescue mission was doomed before it even got organized. I could see none of the translucent bodies on my exposed desktop and definitely not on the brown shaded carpet under my desk. So as I looked sadly for the remnants of the eco-system I found no signs of life of death for that matter so I must believe that the sea monkeys finally got their escape. In ten to twenty years I will see sitting in a smoke filled bar staring back at me a burly Sea-monkey that will immediately get up and walk away just proving that they are still alive. Then of course I will be haunted by a mass of six foot sea monkeys waiting for me outside every door and hiding in every shadow waiting to put me in a giant bowl and have a camera take a picture of me every thirty minutes. Hey doesn't sound like to bad of a deal. Well the sea monkeys are gone long live the sea monkeys. But if you look at the sea monkey cam "http://home.attbi.com/~jimblish/cam.html" You may notice that there is a surprise brewing.

Day 489 9:32 PM MST: It's a miracle The sea monkeys are still alive. While emailing the bonified expert on sea monkey habits and habitations. Dr. Sea monkey a.k.a. Susan Barclay, D.d.D. from sea monkey worship fame www.seamonkeyworship.com (watch for her book) I was testing my camera to make sure that things were still working and noticed that some of the air bubbles appeared to be moving. And upon closer inspection and going cross-eyed there were sea monkeys swimming around. Very tiny baby sea monkeys I have asked the Sea monkey answer lady if these might have come with the purification packet but al last she went to bed (its hard work being an author (not that I speak from any experience except for watching great books on the learning channel and the life story of Stephen King on biography) but as I see it now there has been a miracle in the Ocean of light which of course means the life cycle still goes on. And you haven't escaped updates on what is happening in the life of sea monkeys. Well now after dropping off a quarter of a small sea monkey spoon full of food (talk about a tongue twister glad I'm typing) well that is enough excitement for me for the night. Its amazing how the little things can make your day I might even show up to work tomorrow Happy birthday to me :-P the sea monkeys are still alive. Oh and just incase you didn't know my second doctorate arrived in the mail http://home.attbi.com/~jimblish/seacert.jpg thus making me have a double doctorate: my Doctor of denizens of the deep and my Doctorate of Religious Science http://home.attbi.com/~jimblish/drrs.jpg. Well as people dance in the streets witnessing this miracle I must go to bed and feel relieved that the burly sea monkey at the bar is just in my imagination, or is it.

Day 561 3:17 PM MST: Attack of the sea monkeys. Amazingly the sea monkeys will attack to defend their territory. A few days ago I found a dead spider that had made the mistake of taking an unauthorized peek at the denizens of the deep only to be drug down into the murk depths of 5 inches of water and drown by the muscular crustaceans. Also I believe that the mystery of the miraculous rebirth out of the empty aquarium has been solved. After a couple of weeks since the rebirth a nasty film started rising off of the bottom of the tank I can only believe that this nutritious slime somehow evaded my less then hygienic cleaning of the tank after the giant spill of may 26th. It is my belief that the sea monkeys had started their rebirth out of this slime (which I fully expect contained eggs that or I have created multicellular life out in my basement now that is a scary thought) crawling their way back to existence. The fun thing is is that the sea monkeys like this new addition to the ocean of light as they are constantly eating it and swimming around in it. One very noticeable change in the lifestyle of these little buggers is the fact that all sex seems to have ceased in the tank. I have not seen two connected sea monkeys in a very long time perhaps the sea monkey crack has evolved into this bottom slime and now the monkeys would rather eat and feel ecstasy then engage in carnal pleasures. That or maybe the stress of the owner still being unemployed has caused a bout of impotence in the salty water. The sea monkeys have also developed a strange interest in the powerball multi-state lottery which has made it to Colorado and put their little javascript ability to creating a calculator to find out exactly how much you could win from a grand prize win. You can visit their little free time diversion here at the big lottery calculator.