Well, it was the chloramine that killed the fish. Chlorine evaporates by letting the water sit. Chloramine does not. How much smarter do you feel now? Quite the learning expirience.

Three new fish are now swimming in the tank. They seem happy now, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they survive the "cycling" of the tank over the next month.

Anyways...I've ticked off three of the five things I wrote I wanted to do this year in the East Bay. I briefly visited 4th Street in Berkeley. Cool downtownish district you would never know was there. Hopefully I'll get a chance to explore it later this year. I saw a Seabiscuit at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland with my parents. Good movie, and a really cool theatre with an ornate main auditorium. Much bigger than the Stanford, but it's a first-run movie house, so it isn't the museum-like time warp that the Stanford is....but almost. I'll be going back. After that we drove by Fenton's Creamery in Oakland, but have yet to try it. Looks like a fun place. Any place that's been open since 1894 is a must do on my book!

So the list still stands, even though I've done three things (including the slide at Cordonices). Once was not enough.