I have a roomate who does capoeira, a Brazillian dance/martial arts practice. He really enjoys it, goes to tournaments, and has learned to play the main intstrument (a wire on a stick that you whack, like a koto or a washtub bass but more annoying since all he seems to play is a rythmic version of the Jaws theme.) It occurred to me today that his sport could be called "kick-fencing" since that's sort of what it is.

I bought three more fish today to keep Bulletproof happy ($4.75. Fish happiness: priceless.) It turns out his species is a school fish and he looked sad anyway. Next week we will buy them a castle or some plants. I named them Victor II, Noah II, and Gerhard Ricther. I was going to name them after incompetent WWI commanders, but I don't have enough of them to represent all the player nations.

It has been three hours and they are all swimming around together like a school. Bulletproof is the new alpha fish, because he is the biggest, and Victor II is probably the beta fish, because he is the second biggest. There are some combs on the counter with them that they like to stare at. Gerhard (the tiniest fish) likes to stare at them the most, and will sometimes get left behind because the school moves on while he's staring at the combs near the bottom of the tank. I think fish must like patterns-- when I had 11 fish all named Leslie, they liked to stare at a basket that lived next to their tank.

So all my current fish are doing fine, and have probably forgotten what their lives used to be like before, as they are fish, and have 30-second memories.

Costume continues apace. Three tentacles down, head half done.