Nerdy Boy Web Log: Earth Date: December 6, 2005

Dear Readers,

I am as sad as possible can be. Today my goldfish Henry died. Yesterday Henry was looking very sick, so I took him to the vet, and he told me that Henry had a malignant brain tumor and there was nothing he could do. The next day I woke up in my race car bed (yes I am 43, still live my mother, and have a bed shaped like a race car) and went over to my desk to feed Henry, but Henry was floating upside down in the bowl. A tear came to my eye and then a rain shower of tears bursted forth from my tear ducts. I cried for hours in mother's lap for the loss of my beloved Henry. I remember the day I got him, I went to the pet store and said can I have that goldfish and the pet store guy fished him out for me and gave him to me. We had so many good times. Henry was always swimming in his tank so energetically, he truly had a zest for life. I had always noticed he had this zest for life until today when I saw him lying belly up in his tank. As I flushed him down the toilet I noticed that zest of life again as he swam around in circles faster and faster until he disappeared. I had always wished Henry would brake out into song and dance like in the Disney movies, but he would never do that now. Now could we all take a moment of silence to remember Henry T. Goldfish... I'll never have another fish as great as Henry, but I will still see Henry in my dreams. Henry was not just a fish but a believer and a great organism. Thank you for reading I gotta go cry some more for my beloved Henry.

Trivia: Goldfish have 3 second memories.

Joke: A boy was filling up a hole with dirt, when his neighbor peered over the fence and asked him what he was doing. The boy replied, "Burying my dead goldfish."
"That's an awfully big hole for a goldfish," the neighbor replied.
"That's because he's inside your cat!"