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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2670 on: December 17, 2010, 01:43:33 AM »
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2671 on: December 17, 2010, 07:22:32 AM »
Wow, all you guys buy so many nice things. Must be nice to have money. I bought another month in this shit-hole apartment, and I bought some beer. Thats all I can afford.  ;)

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2672 on: December 17, 2010, 09:34:12 AM »
My fire salamanders arrived.  I bought 5 of them; a sexed pair of S.s.terrestris sub-adults, 2 S.s.gallacia juveniles and 1 S.s.crespoi juvenile, and I've housed them in 3 vivariums.  One of the S.s.terrestris sub-adults climbed onto my hand and said hello while I was unboxing them, and the gallacia juveniles are following each other around and hunting flies.

I also bought some more axolotl eggs.
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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2673 on: December 17, 2010, 09:40:33 AM »
My fire salamanders arrived.  I bought 5 of them; a sexed pair of S.s.terrestris sub-adults, 2 S.s.gallacia juveniles and 1 S.s.crespoi juvenile, and I've housed them in 3 vivariums.  One of the S.s.terrestris sub-adults climbed onto my hand and said hello while I was unboxing them, and the gallacia juveniles are following each other around and hunting flies.

I also bought some more axolotl eggs.

You would have made a very nice Naturalist in Victorian times.  There was a small, but important current of nature enthuasists in my time.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2674 on: December 17, 2010, 10:14:19 AM »
Coffee
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2675 on: December 17, 2010, 05:00:49 PM »
My fire salamanders arrived.  I bought 5 of them; a sexed pair of S.s.terrestris sub-adults, 2 S.s.gallacia juveniles and 1 S.s.crespoi juvenile, and I've housed them in 3 vivariums.  One of the S.s.terrestris sub-adults climbed onto my hand and said hello while I was unboxing them, and the gallacia juveniles are following each other around and hunting flies.

I also bought some more axolotl eggs.

You would have made a very nice Naturalist in Victorian times.  There was a small, but important current of nature enthuasists in my time.

Living in Victorian times would have sucked though, so I don't mind if I missed out on being placed alongside Darwin and Mendel in the high-school biology textbooks.

I'm a bit concerned about one of the salamanders; it's one of the sub-adults, and it hasn't explored it's new habitat like it's partner and the juveniles did, or eaten anything.  It's moved around a little bit, but hasn't ventured out of the plastic tub that it arrived in.  It's partner found a place for a burrow and stayed there for a couple of hours, but when the other one didn't join it, it went back into the plastic tub and has been lying on top of the other one for the past few hours, and looks like it's protecting it from a menacing woodlouse that's sitting in the corner of the tub.

The juveniles have been busy exploring and sampling the various foods that I've presented them with.  Judging by their reactions, woodlice are ok, but a bit hard to swallow, millipedes taste yucky, various flightless flies are tasty and fun to hunt, waxworms are delicious and strips of chicken are very nice, if nutritionally incomplete.  They're all very tame; they don't seem to mind my presence at all, and the juveniles have been taking food straight from my hand.
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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2676 on: December 18, 2010, 05:25:40 AM »
I moistened the sub-adult's skin with a dilute solution of physiological salts this morning, and it finally crawled out of it's plastic tub and burrowed under the acrylic beach in it's tank.  It's skin was looking a bit wrinkly, and I think it was dehydrated.
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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2677 on: December 18, 2010, 07:46:46 AM »
Good luck with your sub-adult, Peter, hope s/he rallies and grows up strong.  :thumbup:


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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2678 on: December 18, 2010, 07:47:46 AM »
As for me, yesterday I bought $70 worth of quarters to use in the laundry machines!   :2thumbsup:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2679 on: December 18, 2010, 11:19:47 AM »
A wood lathe
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2680 on: December 18, 2010, 11:38:27 AM »
My brother's christmas presents.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2681 on: December 18, 2010, 12:53:20 PM »
Food.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2682 on: December 18, 2010, 01:14:47 PM »
Some books, a shirt and some eating utensils.  We keep on losing forks.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2683 on: December 19, 2010, 04:48:58 PM »
A first hardcover edition of A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving:



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A Prayer for Owen Meany is a novel by American writer John Irving, first published in 1989. It tells the story of John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany growing up together in a small New England town during the 1950-60s. Owen is a remarkable boy in many ways; he believes himself to be God's instrument and journeys on a truly extraordinary path.

Not my favorite Irving book, but still good.

I now have first editions of the most acclaimed John Irving novels. I'll eventually add The Hotel New Hampshire to my collection, but that probably won't be until next year.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2684 on: December 19, 2010, 06:23:00 PM »
^^^ The Hotel New Hampsire is one of my favorite book of all time. John Irving is brilliant.