And now it's time for another entry to the old forgotten.  It's been a while since I last wrote in here.  Blame it on being tired & lazy.  Soon as I got back from my two week temporary duty at the Air Force Hospital radiology department in London, I had to get caught up with so much stuff at my main clinic.  I hardly had enough time to catch my breath.  I'd come home just mentally exhausted and resort to my Nintendo Game Cube to get away from reality for a few hours.

While I was up at the radiology department at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath, I had the chance to work the CT (catscan).  I had them take one of my abdomen.  Seems that I've got pretty big kidneys.  Otherwise, everything's in the right place which is a good thing.  I got to do ct scans on brains, sinuses, extremities, abdomen, and backbones to check for bone density.

Working around Air Force folks was an interesting experience too.  They're so layed back and efficient, whereas Navy personnel are a little more uptight.

On one of my weekends there I drove to a nearby college/shopping area called Cambridge.  I was pleased to find a couple of Starbucks coffee shops and actual malls to window-shop through.  One event kinda put a damper in my visit.  I accidentally drove through a road for buses and trucks only and there was a large metal pillar that automatically pops out of the ground.  Well, it decided to pop up right under my front bumper as I proceeded through.  My bumper was slightly bent, but the car is still drivable.  Now the engine warning light comes on, so I think it may have screwed one of my vents up or something.  I wish they'd put signs on these frick'n roads for us dumb Americans here!

Now that most of that stress has been taken care of, I've found some time to feed my new addiction: my new aquarium.  I actually bough myself a small aquarium before I left for London, and had it set up so that when I got back, I could buy my fish and put them in right away.

I bought four different types of goldfish to start off with.  I didn't realize how expensive it really is to maintain an aquarium.  You gotta buy the filter, and a pump to aerate the water, and make sure you change the water often during the first few weeks to make sure the nitrate levels aren't too high for the fish, and then pick out food for the fish.  They say that a fish can get constipated so you can feed it spirulina which will help it stay regular.  Ha!  There's so much interestingly nerdy stuff I've learned while reading up online about aquarium fish.

God, and I've actually had trouble going to sleep the past couple of night 'cause I couldn't stop thinking about algae.  Apparently, I've been feeding my fish too much, so they crap all the time and now my tank is just full of fish crap and algae.  I started looking at online fish retailers here in the UK that sell algae eating fish and critters.  It's amazing to find that people actually mail order fish online.  I'd like to add a blue lickin starfish, some cleaner shrimp, and a red legged hermit crab to my tank but I'm not sure yet if this'd be a good combination for goldfish.  Plus, it's kinda cramped in there right now as it is, so I might end up buying a bigger tank.  Tomorrow, I'm planning on driving over to a town called Bodmin to check out the goods at one of their local aquatic pet stores.