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Item the first: I am always running out of blogs to look at on my long, boring days. What blogs do you like to read, friends list? Or aggregates or news sites or wherever you go to find interesting things. I've gotten to the point where I can read up all my usual haunts in about an hour and a half, which doesn't help when I've got 5 hours of boring, boring class and all sorts of downtime.

Item the second: Either bettas are really annoyingly difficult to keep appropriately (or the proucts out there for them are not appropriate, probably more the latter), or I am neurotic. I poked around at a bunch of different pet stores looking for aquariums, and bought a 1.5 cube aquarium that I am not too enamored of (but seeing how they have it set up in the picture makes me go "curses! I should have thought to put the filter there!"). But it should do the job of keeping Angryfish alive and ensuring I don't have to change the water every time because I hate changing water for bettas.

While looking around I saw the Tetra Waterfall Globe but the only reason I didn't buy it is because $50 is a bit rich for my blood. Maybe when I have an office aquarium. But the cube was so "meh" that I considered returning it for the globe anyway.

Then found out that the water produces too much of a current for bettas. Lots of people have bettas in one, but check out the current in this video. Current is part of the reason I didn't put the betta in the Fluval to begin with (well, that and the limited air hole). So it's probably a good thing I didn't buy the stupid thing, because bettas are happy with the current in a bowl, i.e., none at all.

So I wonder, maybe I can just put the betta in the Fluval and stop worrying so much. Then I look at him and he attacks the glass at me. No... I think this guy is going to be forever alone by necessity.