Geir Andersen - Rough edges

Update

Just a quick post, as I really shouls have been in bed a looong time ago. Working early tomorrow…

All the tanks are doing wonderfully and fish are growing well. The JD’s are slow growing, but the PP’s are “monsters”. They’ve been out of danger for some time now, as they’re much to big to be prey. Hoping the JD’s will kick in shortly

On a whole other note: I’ve never really been much of a gamer, but recent events have got me to endeavour into this world. (A much bigger post on this will follow shortly.) Iæve never had a computer that was built for games, but during the last year or so I’ve had the urge to build one. Last week I finally did it, and this time I put the effort into making it reliable for games.

Specs and all that sort of thing will come in the “larger” post.

Well, now I’m off to bed getting far to little sleep but hey… That’s one thing I’m used to!!!

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Three weeks have come and passed

Today it’s three weeks since I first saw the fry from my Dempsey tank. I took them from their parents after a few days, and it seems to have saved quite a few. I expected there to be quite a few that wouldn’t make it, and so it was.

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Third day

Well, it’s now three days since I found the youngsters, and today I made a “bold” move..  I decided not to risk having mom and dad cannibalise the herd. From what I’ve read, they should be fine for about a week, but to me it looked like there were a bit fewer today from yesterday.

(Click on the image to see full size on my Flickr page.)

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Offspring

I’ve had a male Rocio Octofasciatum for some time, and he’s been alone about a year or so as his mate passed away. I’ve been somewhat reluctant to find a new female as they do make a mating pair, but I found an ad on a forum for JD’s and decided to give it a go.

Picked her up about a week ago, and let her into her new home hoping for the best. They’ve seemed to like eachother, but I haven’t seen any courting bahviour to speak of.

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Pictures

Well, today I did get a bit done. I had to do a 30% water change yesterday, and that’s always fun :|.

Went out today to get a few supplies for my tanks, and ended up with a bit more.

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Rock on!

Snow hasn’t stopped for over a week, and it’s probably about 1 meter or so here now :(. Not the best time of year to say the least. Have lost a bit of oomph to go ahead and make/test more of the pyro effects because of the snow. BUT…

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This is just ridiculus

45 to 50 cm snow on Sunday… That’ll put an effective stop to all testing right now. I got my hands on some great tubes for a simple mortar today, and really looking forward to testing that. All I need is a way to plug it, but I think I might have a solution for that. Tomorrows forecast predicts about 20 new cm’s of snow, so I might not get a chance to build it before work. Have to see how it goes..

Didn’t have a chance to make dextrin today because of.. well.. a few different things. No stars drying to be tested, but there’s still time. It’s kind of hard to have the parts and compounds lying around but no time to build and test. If all goes as planned, I’ll have some spare time this weekend, and things might happen…. That remains to be seen.

See you in the sky!

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Too bloody cold!

All this snow and wold weather just makes it hard to be outside testing. Knowing that I can’t test stuff, makes it hard to make new stuff… It’s a vicious circle! Last batch of BP is dried and tested and I’m well chuffed again. This’ll work great as break. I have to make a mill to get good liftpowder but I can use what I’ve got, just have to use a bit more than the optimal percentage.

I’ve got a few canisters ready for filling, but I have to make some stars and test those. Lacking dextrin as a binder, but hopefully I can make that during the coming week. My starmix has not been tested yet so I don’t know if it’s even usable, but hopefully with some good priming it’ll do the trick. My testing-mortar is ready, and this time I’ll make sure to test it while filming. Great to have some video documentation to see the progress from start to finish.

Snow is the worst part of winter. It can make for some very good photos, but again…too cold to take the camera out (for me). My camera can handle the cold, but I can’t :-P.

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Finally!!!!!!!!!

Today I got my first successful launch
On a downside, I didn’t bother to film it as I didn’t think it would work.

I built a very small shell, maybe a 1″ canister. I didn’t weigh it to measure the liftcharge, so it didn’t go quite as high as I wanted. The spolette I made was waaay to long and the shell actually fell back down before lighting… Booboo. Still was fun though, but I need some real timefuse!!!!!

I’ve never been more chuffed than when the mortar went of, and I saw it lift. The trail from the spolette was just cool. This was something I made myself. Learning… Here I come!

Not working until evening/night tomorrow, so I’ve got a couple hours left of today ;). Off to make some “pipes” for some slightly bigger canisters.

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Not today

Didn’t have a chance to do anything yesterday, as I was a bit tired from a 12 hour shift. All I did manage to do, was update my WordPress to the latest version. This was long overdue.

This morning was a bit on the dozey side, so no work done. Only 7 hours of work today though ;). I really don’t mind, I love my job :D:D.

I have to make some more BP though, it takes time to dry so best to have it ready

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