We had a nice chat about the aquarium situation and decided to use the pretty ten gallon as a test to see how the non-wet-pets deal with an aquarium. After a few weeks, we'll discuss an upgrade.

So, once we figured that out, we went ahead and did her planned living room re-arrangement, because she was all excited about it. Then I dug out the tank and cleaned it up. Now we just need to find a nice little stand for it and we'll be all set. I'm thinking a short little end-table to keep it right around couch-viewing, floor viewing for the furry critters, height. I'll have to go look sometime after the weather clears up.

When it comes time to discuss a larger tank, I'll likely build the stand. If I don't find the appropriate size for the little one, I'll build it too. Tough to get out the table saw in this kind of weather though.

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Mrs. NFB picked a particularly grueling movie from Netflix this week. I picked goofy. Who won?

The Girl Next Door - this was not a fun movie to watch. No, it wasn't bad. In fact, as far as movie making goes, it was made spectacularly. Very good acting considering most of the cast was pretty young. But the story was painful. Made even worse knowing that it was based on a real story. A girl and her sister move in with her aunt after her parents are killed in an accident. And the aunt decides she's the source of all bad things and must be punished. A lot of evil in this movie. And framed in the future of the male lead's adult life, reliving the past, visiting the source of wrongness and pain that shaped his life. Worth a watch, though I'd not really want to watch it again.

Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave - While some say this is a horrible movie, and they're probably right, it's still a lot of fun to watch. OK, so the main characters that are left over from the previous RotLD have apparently had a memory wipe, because they don't remember shit about the living dead they just dealt with, but aside from that? Good, goofy, stupid fun. There were some decisions that could have been better. The dude who kept popping out of the port-a-pot? He totally should have had an end-scene where he popped out, saw the huge crater, and then popped back in. The rat scenes? Should have delved in further. Rave or Bust? Totally should have had a car pick him up. Best line of the movie was definitely, "Normally you don't do this unless I take you to Olive Garden."

At one point Mrs. NFB turns to me and says, "is it just normal for women to just rip off their tops like that?"

"Well," I replied, "I've been to some concerts where that happens pretty frequently."

Both of us decided this movie was just too damn fun to watch. Especially in comparison with some of the other dead stinkers. Stupid, but self-aware always wins.

Pitch Black + Dark Fury + Chronicles of Riddick - what the fuck humanity? Seriously, this was likely the best sci-fi series of the modern age. And what happens? Right at the point where it all falls into place to be "HOLY SHIT" wowable, the series is cancelled. Come on, a Furyan, who pretty much just wants to be left the hell alone, in charge of the entirety of the most evilly awesome army of all time? How is that not a recipe for awesome? And then I read reviews for them and people sort of/kind of liked Pitch Black, and absolutely HATED everything that came after. Meanwhile, those same people praised all the shitty romantic comedies that came out that same year following the same stupid pattern romantic comedies have been following since the beginning of time. You fuckers are the reason Hollywood never tries anything new. Because anything new is scoffed at as nonsensical. How many reviews of Chronicles said that the story didn't make sense or they didn't understand the relationship of Riddick and Kyra? I'm an idiot and I understood it fine.

I LOVE THESE FILMS! It's like what would have happened had the Star Wars movies been made for adults.

On the bright side, I never have to find out what the ewoks of the Riddickverse would have been.

If you ever watch Chronicles of Riddick, don't watch the director's cut. They really hose up the ending with the director's cut.

I will watch them again, over and over. Just as I already have.

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Apparently our janitorial staff has decided that they are facilities managers today. They've spent most of the morning trying to figure out how many people made it in during the snow storm. They're currently involved in going to team leads and getting head counts. No one in the building, including the actual facilities managers, has any fucking idea why the numbers matter to these lunk-heads, however, it does prevent them from doing something damaging, so they're just being left alone.

Obviously we aren't running at 100% or they'd be busy this morning. Maybe they'll have an actual head count by noon or so, when they decide whether we're staying open the rest of the day.

Enough for one day. Laterz.