Cesar's Rants

[cesar]

I must put some rants here. Don't worry I'm not one to go off on local reefers.

So I'm sitting at home needing to do a WC. I get bucket ready with RO water and just as I'm about to start dumping salt my mind throws a fart. I forget how much salt I need. So I call a local reefer and he advised me to use 1/2 cup per gallon. Since I was going to make a 4 gallon bucket I figure I need 2 cups of salt. I dump 2 cups of salt and let it mix overnight. Wake up next day and got my Refractometer. It's reading 1.010. Which is extremely low. I'm trying to figure out how to raise it to normal standards. I don't know what went over me but I called an LFS. They advised me to put 2 more cups of salt. I did. What an idiot. Now that water is too salty. I don't have space to transfer half and maybe fill with RO water to see of I can bring it down a bit.

So I wake up today wanting to do a WC. I said the hell with this. Went to a store and bought it made already. 75 cents per gallon.

[Bergy]

well, I am one to go off other reefers, especially when i am directly involved in the situation, but i  still like your story/rant... it's weak inthe rant category so I will stick with story.. hehehehe


if you have another bucket, you can put 1 gallon of water in it, then mix both buckets together to get back to where you were before you called the lfs...

and for the record, you can not go by 'how many cups' of salt per gallon of water recipe

that is why some salts weight 30 lbs per bucket and some weigh 40 lbs

You need to get the recipe for that specific brand...

And then i dont trust the recipes, for a bunch of different reasons, all of whihc suggest using those recipes as a guide by using about 90% and then adjust from there...

after you mix a few dozen barrels you can start to measure the real number of cups per gallon of water, and stick with it, but when you cnge salt mixes you will have to measure all over again

on my saltwater mixing station/barrel  I have marked the outside of the barrel in gradients and marekd the realvent salinity for that volume of water, (using REEFCYSTALS)  and for me, 50 gallons of RO was 26cups  which as you can see is a just a skosh more then 1/2 cup per gallon of water...  actually real close...

so, did you figure out what your salt level was ato 1.010???

Im guessing cause you didnt circulate the water overnight and teh salt settled in teh bucket

You might want to test that water for calcium and alk, (before you add it to your tank), might as well measure the calcium and alk of your tank prior to adding teh new salt water, then about an hour after water change go ahead and test your display tank water too


and see if you increased anything

[cesar]

Has any one seen that new "We are the world, Haiti" video? What a crap of $hit that is. Rappers can ruin just about anything. I'm burned with this Haiti thing already. I've seen it at work already. "I don't want to wait in this line, I'm from Haiti". Like we owe them something.

[Bergy]

cool rant!!!!

andyes, that is a RANT.. albeit SHORT RANT.. but still a RANT


I too want to help haiti and every other provence that needs and asks for help...

BUT, we need to understand VERY CLEARLY that the money and resources that are used/spent on this and other similar tasks are coming from somewhere...

So, when someone in govt says yes, lets help haiti.. they need to say at the same time.. in the same breath.. that doing  will mean we can not help 'this' or 'that'.. and that teachers will get laid off, or there will be less roads built or fixed...or that we will have to buld less 'cultural' information centers...


basically we either need to cut services already approved or raise taxes.


Let see how many people want to help when it means giving up something, or increasing our costs...


Let see how chartibale we are when we know directly what the tru cost is...

It is too easy to say I want, or WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO AFFORD



IT is those people that are hypocrites or stupid... We will let them pick thier own title...

[cesar]

Now this is going to be a rant. If you are offended? Oh well.

It knew it was going to happen sooner or later. Received new memo today from head supervisor at my department. Some people might know and some might not know but I work for The Department of Homeland Security with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Well I got a memo stating that begining next week we will have new Haitians arriving to our office seeking Immigration benefits due to the earthquake that took place in January. Well not only are we suppose to bend over backwards for these people but we must do so in their language. I MUST learn Creole by next week. They issued me a guide to memorize. Forget the fact that they are coming to MY country. No! I must learn their language so we can be sensitive of what happened in their 3rd world nation. I take great offence to this. It's bad enough it is required from me to know how to speak Spanish when I worked at The Border Patrol. Now I must learn their Creole language. What bullshit. We are losing our country people. We are giving it away. We are sitting here and doing nothing. Nothing but bending over and letting them rape us. What are we going to do? Absolutely nothing. We are the US. World Police. How about taking care of our own? How about our hungry Americans? Huh? Nothing! That's what. We our losing it people. This us disgusting me. Sure let's let them stay here and become a public charge. It's ok to invade our schools and make us learn your culture. Don't bother in learning ours. What the hell you're better off being an illegal alien in this country.


What a shame!


Just my rant.

[psykokid]

gotta love it when you dont have to even make an attempt to learn the language to immigrate and collect a check.

[cesar]

I wonder what will happen when that first Haitian applicant shows up and I speak to him in English? What are they gonna do? Fire me? Right! Supervisor is such an idiot too. He tells me "Officer ______ read this. You must, you MUST greet them in Creole". Didn't know what to say. I was in front of an applicant in the middle of an interview. I just laughed. I actually thought it was a joke at first. Then the whole office was talking about it.

[OCtrackiepacsg1]

I thought they spoke French in Haiti or is creole the Dutch of German?
I wouldn't be too hard on the Haitians, the had it rough the past few weeks. Though I don't think taking a forklift and dropping them right into the US might be the best idea.

[psykokid]

Hatian Creole is like Louisiana style Creole, a bastardized french dialect. Alot of native words thrown in with stuff from other languages.

[Bergy]

i understand the rant and probably a lot of the issue..

Basically it is the 'right thing to do', to greet them in thier native languages during times like this.. but I do question the logic or necessity  that dictates that an entire workforce/staff to learn a new language, in a short period of time...

It is neat to give and be the 'better' person... it wins all kinds of 'karma points'..  but, wanting and doing is the problem..

we dont have the resources to make that goal achivalble or viable...

If and when we have too much money, then yea... reach for the stars.. but until then, as posted in my earlier message, start lookiing at what and how we spend our monies now...

[cruzincaril]

im sorry but i usually stay out of these rants cuz i tend to get in trouble with my opinions..but i do have to agree with cesar.having them coming here helping them with whatever they need andddd required to learn the language beats me..im on cesars side..sorry. as bill must know we have the same problem in calif..with all the hispanices and jobs requirments must be BILINGUAL.   bad enuf im deaf i cant get a lot of jobs but requiring me to be bilingual is ridic.and i mayb even have more qualif than the next jerk but he can speak the lang so heee gets the job. ok so we can greet them in creole or whatever the language is..but maybe just learn or even READ off the paper what to say to them to ask questions of them to help them..but to require us to do more? bull..we are already helping them..and YES our ppl come first...help US  first before taking in ppl of all nationalities and giving them what our own ppl dont have..i could go on and on but im probly already in trouble here..

[Bergy]

well said carole...

And this is not a 'sides' issue...

I think it is unreasonable in today's economy.. this does not mean that when the economy gets better we should do this, it means that wehn we have TOO MUCH MONEY, is when we should do this...

Im not sure when that will be, certainly it wont e in my lifetime or in my daughters, but someday, we shoud have too much money and welcome and take care of the world, cause by that time we will have already fixed and taken care of ourselves first...


It is an ideallogical idea... i think it great if we can take care of everyone and still not sweat it at home...

[cruzincaril]

you put it better than me..thats what i meant..charity begins at home

[Bergy]

yes, it does, but we can not nor should not be isolationist... so, it can not nor should not be an all or nothing...

we should still continue to try... TRY... to accomidate those that are in our good graces... but we should do so in a measured amount...


and this like other govt discussions will always end up with me commenting about how we spend money on frivulous things....  I would love tear apart the govt budget!!!!  I would ax a butt load of programs...

The first on the list will be 'cultural' programs.. (like the OP issue, we should not spend money on these programs until we have too much money)

we dont need museums and special parades and certificates naming this a purple awareness day/month

we dont need new offices for politicians, or new desks, or new phones...

they should be working as paupers!!!!

Our courthouses that have cherry wood paneling and solid wood this and that, is effing stupid...

those courts and the judges should EARN thier respect, not be clouded by the indulgences of some over spending pompus fool...

politicians should want to work in govt as part of thier dream, not that they would work in glorius offices, and sweet cars, and first class plane tickets...

either they want to do something to make our lives better or they dont..

this way they wont have to compete with private business... i.e. pay a competitive salray/compenstion to attract the top and finest personnel, but rather to find people that really want to do the job... and to make a difference..

I can guarantee that George washington did not do this for the money or glory...

I can also guarantee that Obama, Clinton, BUSH, or any of the others dnt give a rats You better mean it as in 'donkey' about US but rather how history will view THEM!!!!