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I try to wake up early on laundry day.  I heard a forecast fir possible rain Friday, so today was the only day left this week to get it done.  I try never to do it in the weekend because then I would be leaving for the laundromat while it's still dark outside, 4am, to avoid the weekend rush.

Back in 2010, I decided to make a serious effort to sow fern spores so that I could create a more controlled harvest of the delicate maidenhair fern. The reason i say delicate is because Los Angeles is a desert.

I don't have memorized all technical terms used in the botany world, so I'll be speaking in layman's terms. Spores are the seed-like substance that appear as freckles on the backside of a single frond (leaf). To scrape this off, I usually wait until the leaves have wilted and dried so that i can cut it off from the plant itself. A small pocket knife or x-acto blade works good for the scraping process. Normally, you'd have a clean white sheet of paper to catch the scrapings. That way, spreading them across a pot of fertile soil can be done more evenly.

When I finally saw evidence of growth, I was ecstatic. What I couldn't figure out was why the sprout-like growth didn't look anything like the fern I was trying to grow. Well, this is where it gets technical. The sprores contain hormones of both sexes, and until the male hormone fertizes the female, the sprouts don't reach adulthood due to their lacking of their full genetic ID. For instance, the sprouts that appear might only have 80-some% of the genetic ID for my fern, and once the sprout comes in contact with it's genome opposite, it then becomes what I believe is referred to as a sporophyte (tiny version of a fern frond).

I've taken pix of my little outdoors experimentatal corner.

A closeup pic of the metamorphesis that I am anxious to see is placed next to the pot in which the growth is kept. I'm doing this in various pots to get an idea of what criteria is pertinent in the proper care of sowing fern spores. In ( picture of a sporophyte ), the pot was not only filled with a mixture of potting soil and sphagnum (peet moss), like the other containers, the pot itself sat on a container filled with granular sand. The container with the sand holds the excess water that drains out of the pot. This may well be the only potted example I have where I am witnessing the metamorphesis process in fruition, and without assistance.

I began late in my 2011 attempt to use a green plastic container, instead of regular see-thru plastic, to maintain moisture and humidity level. The results seem to be an improvement.

One pot, I've noticed, seems to have developed an unusual quantity of sprouts carrying the ( male fertilizing characteristcs of the plant ). It is the pot which contains a number of rocks on its surface. I originally did this for design, but I now feel as though the rocks may have provided some kind of temperature control which the other pots didn't have, because all ive seen in other potted attempts is the female sprouts. And lots of them.

The difference between the two sprouts, in reference to the way they look, is that the female seems to grow upward, like a blade of grass, or a macro version of a tiny palm tree. The male hormone carrying sprout seems to be like a single leaf that stays closely attached to the base where it sprouted from. If I had to give you a visual, I would say, image a clam at the bottom of the ocean.

I'm so overwhelmed with ( female sprouts ) ive begun to dig up plugs of them to transplant in other pots rich in male sprouts. I imagine it is a bit late in the spring to be trying this but until I am able to clearly see the results of having succeeded in the spore growing process, I won't give up.

Updates to this entry will contain ( more pix )

- [-] 1. Opening Image (1)
    - [+] a. Same face as final image, but younger.
    - [ ] b. At the same time as comparing similarities to the facial
          features, lots has changed in that the young MC doesn't
          appear in the slightest to be the same person
    - [ ] c. Whereas the antagonist doesn't really posses much change from
          adolescent to adulthood.
- [ ] 2. Theme Stated (5)
          Reincarnation is probably not such a ludicrous idea when one
          considers how treachery throughout the ages have managed to
          keep the flame of revenge hidden inside the hearts of people
          who have been hurt. 
    - [ ] a. Post WWII, the next generation
        - [ ] a. Eisenburg youth hunt down the offspring of Nazi war
              criminals who managed to escape persecution and spread
              their seed
            - [ ] a. Same concept as Nazi hunters meets Nazi youth,
                  whereas Nazi youth were being trained to hate and
                  kill, Nazi hunters raised their own youth to hunt and
                  kill
- [ ] 3. Set Up (1-10)
    - [ ] a. MC's taste in music glorifies hate in discriminatory fashion
              You might see this in his blogging style, using the
              handle of "Slavezombie"
    - [ ] b. Little things, like a fly that finds it's way into the house,
          make MC explode in anger
    - [ ] c. Upon breaking up with gf, MC makes an effort to live a
          celebate life style just until he can prove to himself that
          he can indeed control his urges of sex
    - [ ] d. He has no mercy for a fly that appears to be praying with its
          hands as that is the perfect opportunity for MC to flick it
          dead with his finger.
- [ ] 4. Catalist (12)
    - [ ] a. MC feels a need to seek enlightenment through loud music
        - [ ] a. He doesn't realize that Deirdre also saw a need of having
              music in her life and their tastes are very similar
    - [ ] b. MC is called by his nickname around the work place
              His nickname is Bier de Stone
- [ ] 5. Debate (12-25)
    - [ ] a. Confusion ensues in the present when a co-worker friend
          confides in MC about something disturbing he witnessed
    - [ ] b. More confusion around the identity of MC as his character is
          depicted as Henry in his youth, which nobody would suspect.
- [ ] 6. Break into two (25)
    - [ ] a. Deirdre's target works in at a small independent publication
          and she must put to use all those years of schooling to land
          a job there
        - [ ] a. Whether Deirdre knows that her target is Henry doesn't
              really matter at this point
        - [ ] b. Her band of misfit punk rock sisters encourage her to be
              true to their cause
        - [ ] c. They are a Nazi youth hunter band that want to bring
              their version of history to fruition
                  They believe the concept of a Hitler youth was
                  nothing more than Nazi war criminals escaping
                  persecution for their crimes and living out their
                  lives as a family man, with a loving wife and
                  children.
            - [ ] a. Their job is to expose the offspring of war
                  criminals, yet not link their discovery with the
                  band, which is undercover
    - [ ] b. Deirdre becomes the rebelious character in the story, though
          we don't know why she rebels so much
- [ ] 7. B Story (30)
    - [ ] a. The butterfly flutters past her ear and makes a distinct
          flutter noise that Deirdre interprets as the butterfly's way
          of speaking to her
        - [ ] a. Her sense of hearing is developed by starting a hard rock
              band
        - [ ] b. Deirdre is the antagonist who numbs herself from
              emotional attachment so that she could pursue an extended
              education in history
- [ ] 8. Fun and Games (30-55)
    - [ ] a. Deirdre learns what Bier's real name is
              It's a stupid and unusual story that juxtaposes Bier's
              ability to flick a fly dead with that of the spanish
              phrase "Adar mate al mosca" which translate literally as
              "to kill the fly" but is meant to imply finishing up
              one's alcoholic beverage. Bier's personality resembles
              that of a drunken poet.
    - [ ] b. Bier starts his own business on the side in which he changes
          his name to Henry S. Bier. Get it? Henry's beer.
              Henry S. Bier is assumed to be protagonists name. No
              reference should be made other than the audience putting
              the pieces together
- [ ] 9. Midpoint (55)
    - [ ] a. MC feels like he's losing his mind.
        - [ ] a. Middle age can do funny things to a person
                  This falls under MC's mid life crisis
            - [ ] a. Not the rebelious type, he finds an outlet to his
                  recluse kind of lifestyle by following the steps of
                  graffiti artists who dangle their cute teddy bears on
                  electrical lines
                      He paints happy faces on rooftops so that people
                      can see his work from satellite images
- [ ] 10. Bad guys close in (55-75)
    - [ ] a. Deirdre also encounters the first signs of PMS
- [ ] 11. All is lost (75)
    - [ ] a. This is the realization that the protagonist becomes aware of
          in his obsessiveness over something he can never obtain
        - [ ] a. He lived his life blindly seeing the beauty in women who
              were not compatible with him just to keep his mind off
              Deirdre
        - [ ] b. He was infatuated with a girl with short black hair that
              is key to the epiphany of Deirdre's mom with similar hair.
            - [ ] a. He honestly didn't make the connection of being in
                  love with the likeness of Deirdre's mom until…
- [ ] 12. Dark night of the soul (75-85)
    - [ ] a. As a result of being incapable of making it in journalism as
          a household name, he starts becoming insane
        - [ ] a. he manages to one day flick a tired, old common housefly
              with his finger and thinks he can kill any fly the same
              way
        - [ ] b. he chases flies when they enter his house flicking at
              them in the living room, flicking at them in the kitchen
        - [ ] c. Eventually, he comes up with a system to execute flies
              without a fly swatter
            - [ ] a. He lures them into a tiny hallway in his house of
                  which there is no escape
            - [ ] b. In that cell like room, he can wait for the fly to
                  land against a wall and flick it dead
- [ ] 13. Break into three (85)
    - [ ] a. While MC tries all his life to make ammends so that his life
          has meaning, antagonist approaches her plight from a totally
          different direction
    - [ ] b. Antagonist is smarter than MC
    - [ ] c. MC followed his heart
- [ ] 14. Finale (85-110)
    - [ ] a. The happy face that MC draws on rooftops becomes symbolic of
          opening image in that it is a simple happy face, like the one
          he had as a youth, though miserable, riding in a car full of
          girls interested in a girls night out type of good time.
              It also becomes symbolic of the final image in that it is
              painted in blood during his last few minutes of life
- [ ] 15. Final Image (110)
    - [ ] a. An obscurred bloody face

Alan Alda, from M.A.S.H. fame, had a contagious laugh, full of gusto. Whenever I tuned in to the sitcom, and Hawkeye laughed, it was sure to be funny (the situation). That seems like a hundred years ago, and in between then and now, intoxicating laughter has probably gone thru some changes. That signature laugh, however, brings to mind my pre-drinking age experimental substance abuse when a neighbor of mine, big, tough, and very much into partying with drugs... thought it fitting to adopt Alan Alda's laughing style, and all I can remember when I would hear Alan Alda coming out of his mouth is "Why isn"t anybody saying anything about how stupid he sounds?"

A few decades after that, when I finally finished with college and found a steady job, I became fascinated with one of my co-workers whose laughter contained a lowering of her voice. I don't know how else to describe it other than to say she had a low, throaty laugh. Then, around 2004, she took another job, got married, had kids, and is probably struggling to get back to her comfortable weight. So, the deep/low voice in her throat, when laughing, kind of fits her body structure now. I kind of miss the way she would express herself, after completing one of the arduous tasks at work, with an explosive "Finished!"

That was very cute.

Last week I met a new clerk whom accesses freelance work within the library department as a substitute whenever one of the regular full time clerks is on vacation, sick, etc. She is waify and cute as hell. Black hair, fair skin, and very uppidy. When she laughs, whether it be a nervous chuckle being on the job for only a short time, or a genuine expression of something she thinks is funny, she lowers her voice. I guess a fair comparison might be Beavis & Butthead's chuckle, a sound that is not uncontrolled laughter, but a significant expression of something considered funny in which the chuckler can either let loose and create a laugh originating from the diaphram and quite contagious, or he can let it stand by itself. I may have gone too much into detail there, but when you replace Butthead's face (and body) with a sexy little lady, it's damn cute.

We get a variety of different subs now that one of the regular clerks is on maternity leave. My stalking personality has me checking the work schedule for who's who, because I need something to keep me going rather than checking the work schedule for newbs who may need me to type them out a time sheet. And, surprise surprise! I get to see her again this week. I won't say when, because people I know sometimes really do read this, and I won't say who, because I don't need to be asked to exclude real people from my imaginative writing. In a perfect world, I would be able to take my 15-minute break with this person and film a short video when I make her laugh.

• Sat, 17:49: penny, play dead. http://t.co/JypTNP4a

bbq saturday.  May 22.  Awkward how I remember family gatherings being, what with my dad being the social loudmouth letting the booze do most of the talking.  Welp, like father, like son (I guess).
It was my neice's graduation celebration.  That's her, fifth in the list.

This is an algea eater.  His name is Catfish.  Currently, he's been living in a 10 gallon tank with a few guppies.  I kind of feel bad for him (her) because the 35 gallon tank I raised him in sprung a leak and he's had to adopt to his current cramped quarters.

getting work done on my pickup, so hadto walk it home. Took scenic route.

I imagine that I would have to upgrade a lot of my clunky hardware if I were to get  involved with it after getting bitten by the vlog bug. Just putting together a script for the linked YouTube video above seems like a writing assignment to end all my writing fantasies forever.