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Todd the Volunteer comes a couple of times each week and answers the phones for us. That lets the regular phone answerer do some other stuff for a while, and it lets us see Todd on a regular basis. It’s nice seeing Todd the Volunteer because he is a nice guy. By “nice guy” I mean “he laughs at my jokes.” I don’t know if he is giving me a sympathy laugh or if he really means it, but I’ll take a laugh any way I can get it.

Todd the Volunteer and I were talking the other day about Beta fish. I don’t know what got us started on the subject. Beta fish are not something that normally arise. I have, however, been the proud owner of a Beta fish. Marcus Aurelius Garvey lived in a coffee pot for most of his life. And by coffee pot, I mean a carafe that sat in a coffee maker which was, of course, neither plugged in or turned on.

I thought it was pretty cool to have a fish in a coffee pot. Other people seemed to find it interesting as well. I have to admit that I sort of stole the idea from my friend Lee from camp. He had Beta fish in his room at the fraternity house at Tennessee Tech. In fact, he may have been a Beta, if there is such a thing. Lee kept his in empty liquor bottles. Since I had put down the bottle by that point, I used a coffee pot. I assume one could use a bong too.

I’m not going to use a bong for a fish or anything else, but if some of you glass blowing hippies want to go for that, you can feel free. What I am going to do is make another fish bowl out of a coffee pot, except this time I’m doing to do it right. This time I am going to make the water move. Just how I am going to do that is yet to be determined, but I will be sure to update you on the reg.