The harder you try, the worse it gets.

Hmm, it seems my readership lately is going down and down, as I see less and less comments. Perhaps I should regale with more stories of my fish tank. I am sure this would be more entertaining for all of you. Did you know my shrimps were pregnant? They have masses of eggs sticking out of there bellies that looks more like white fungus. I wonder if my other fish will eat the babies? I would feel bad about this, but then again, I would save on flake food for awhile. Its a toss up.

My Uncle Mike wrote me a letter the other day. I was kinda surprised. Not that he likes to write letters, just that he wrote one to me. I remember when I was young and he used to tell us about writing to the government, to the president, governor, and whoever else thought might listen to his hand written letters. I especially liked the stories about him writing to his boss about all the marijuana use and stealing that goes on around him at his place of work. I bet he gives them lots of heartburn.

His letter to me was quite funny. Him and my brother are secretly developing the fuel vapor engine that goes 200 mph. I think this is exactly what Highway 8 needs in Chisago County. It already has one of the highest accident rates in Minnesota--too many fast teenagers behind too many slow retired old ladies makes for a twisted metal combinations. Uncle Mike also wrote about only wanting live ammo as a little boy and as a young man. I still think he secretly wants this now. Uncle Mike's yellow pages ad also isnt working. He gets too many telemarketer calls and has found a way to make money suing them. I wish him luck with this new found money making method, but for now, I will just promote his day job. Should any of you in Minneapolis/Golden Valley area need ANY kind of locksmithing skills, Spike`s Lock and Key is the man to call. But be warned, he only takes cash and likes to go into rants on the mention of credit cards. But this is mildly entertaining too.

Today was a dismal day in the laboratory. One of my reactions blew up in my chest, but no harm was done (to me). Actually, it wasn´t an explosion, but a implosion of glassware under high vacuum. It pretty much has the same effect of sending glass fragments, solvent, and my precious product evenly across the laboratory. I had spent so much time making this chemical though, I had to gently scrape and collect it off the glass shards throughout the lab. These are the real skills learned in the post-doctorate laboratory.

For the second time I tried to sell my laptop on ebay, and for the second time, I had some con artist buy it. He tried to tell he uses a special banking procedure that puts the money right inside my bank account instantly, just as long as I give him my pin code number. I sent him a fake one, and told him I will be expecting the money REAL SOON! The first con artist who won my computer on ebay said to ship it fast because it was a special b-day present for his son in Nigeria. Just hearing Nigeria raised some red flags. Mr. Scammer then sent a fake Paypal email to me stating that the payment was already in my account, and the package could be shipped immediately. I think the only ones on ebay these days are con artists. So now I have to wait the mandatory 14 days before I can relist the item while ebay sends out moronic email after moronic email to the buyer, gently asking them to please please pay the seller so we (ebay) can keep our raping 15% fee! I hate them all.

What do you think I should do with all these con artists?