Earlier today I thought I had a computer virus.  My keyboard was acting completely haywire.  I scanned my system thoroughly and even got some new antivirus software.  Nothing helped.  Then I saw that a sparkly pinwheel I put in my pen can had fallen in front of the wireless keyboard antennae.  My keyboard's signal was being refracted as if through a prism.  It was not a fun way to write.  It felt like my computerbrain had had a stroke.

But it was just a sparkly pinwheel.  I have since burned it, as my antivirus software demanded.

My mom & stepdad got me a fountain setup for my patio.  I assembled it and filled it and conditoned the water and bought five goldfish and personally spayed and neutered them and released them into their new prison. 

Even during my vegetarian period, I have always believed that animals exist as our slaves.  Cattle?  Meat slaves.  Dogs?  Joy slaves.  The goldfish are my mosquito-eating slaves.  They'll eat passing mosquitos and any eggs or larvae in the water.  The first day I saw one jump up out of the water and get a bug, and I thought, Cool.

Then later that day I went outside and saw that same fish on the ground outside the fountain.  It had jumped out completely.  I asked, Are you dead? and touched it and it flipped.  I tossed it back into the water and it listed down to the bottom and turned on its side.  I put my hand in the water and pushed the fish along.  It swam when I pushed it, so I did it for a while, to get some water moving through its gills.  But it would go motionless when not prodded. 

It had become the zombie of fish.  The other four fish still avoid it, which is easy, because the zombie fish only moves enough to suspend itself upright in the same place all day every day.  You think fish have dead eyes?  Try staring into the undead dead eyes of a fish.  They look alive.