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Just an old scene from Suikoden: Journeymen's Survival that I scribbled in my notebook back during ... oh, winter quarter? Finally taking the time to type it up for reference, so I'm also putting it here.

( Rune Bearer vs. Rune Hunter )

Hee hee. Belated birthday gifts.

My little brother tried to surprise me a few weeks ago with more memory for my laptop, since I can't play Guild Wars with my current chips. That was scrapped when he found out the chip he'd gotten wasn't compatible with my comp and I told him not to buy something expensive, since he basically lost $20 in shipping and handling and reshelving fees.

So what does he do? He gets me a portable hard drive and a new cooling pad for my laptop, and the pad itself contains four more USB hubs. So now I'm backing up all my stuff and everything's pretty awesome.


And I never wrote about this, but it's really a pretty surprising little story.

So, as any pet fish owner would know, small fish are quite susceptible to dying off. A good example would be the five red and blue tetras that my older brother got back when he lived in Stevens Court. Four of them died for various reasons (sickness, attacked by other fish, most likely), but one of them has lived on for quite awhile -- at least nine months now. My brother called him (the fish) stubborn and surprising.

Well, with my brother in CA interning for Intel, I've been in charge of taking care of the fish. So imagine my dismay two days ago when I find the little tetra swimming almost perpendicular to the bottom of the tank, struggling to swim the entire time. Apparently one of the slightly-bigger fish had nipped the majority of his left fin and now the poor tetra was unable to swim correctly. It was also apparently very tiring to swim, because the tetra would float up to the top of the tank, belly up -- like it was already dead. This cycle would continue every 15 minutes or so. I considered putting it out of its misery for a bit, but didn't have the heart to.

I'm happy I didn't. Yesterday morning, when I went to feed the fish, the tetra was swimming around almost as if nothing had happened to it. He's a little slower and still swimming a bit off-balance, but he's no longer succumbing to the need to give up and float at the top of the tank.

I'm now calling him Trooper.