Looks like Sushi

I finally feel refreshed enough from the disappointing results of our election to begin blogging again.

So much has happened since I last posted - Christmas in Ireland, the Super Bowl in Jacksonville - but the thing on my mind right now is my office glofish with the EIB (Eric Induced Bump).

For those of you unfamiliar with glofish, they are zebra fish scientifically mutated to help engineers discover contaminated water. At least, that's the story Yorktown Technologies is spreading. The glofish apparently glow under black light however I can't vouch for that as we've been unable to find a black light bulb that will fit in the hood of our aquarium. Fresh from X-Men II, my office roommate, Eric, and I decided to buy the glofish over a year ago to provide a loving home for these mutants.

So that's the remote history behind the glofish. Now here's the recent history. While I was away in Ireland for Christmas, Eric took the fish home since we're closed from Christmas to after New Year's. Somehow during the transport from the office to his home, one of the glofish developed a bump on his back.

It was a small bump at first but had grown to almost epic proportions over the ensuing weeks. The poor glofish had to wobble back and forth in order to navigate the fish tank. The many visitors to our office fish tank said their eulogies to the glofish knowing that it was a short matter of time before the glofish was found floating on the surface of the tank. Some visitors pleaded with me to flush it down the toilet to put it out of its misery. I maintained that it should spend its last moments in the comfort of its friends.

Then, last Friday, leakage from the bump occurred. Yuck. I assumed that Monday morning I would find the glofish dead, dead, dead with little "x's" where its eyes had been.

Monday morning I arrive to work to find that one or more of the other fish in the tank had nibbled on the bump reducing to half its size. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.

More pleas ensued by visitors for me to flush the poor fish down the toilet. Or put it in its own swimming area. I have elected to keep it with its companion fish who I hope must end up removing this bump from the poor glofish.

I will endeavor to take a photo of this fish because you really can only appreciate the yuckiness of it all with a photo.