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Feeshies 'n workstations
The fish seem to be doing well. I did get briefly concerned on Monday, though. I came home from work and could only see one of the zebra danios swimming around.
After a lot of squinting and looking from all around the aquarium, I finally spotted a 2nd one. he was on the bottom in the back of the tank in a spot where the gravel kind of dipped down. I couldn't see fin or gill movement so I sadly assumed the lil guy had died. When I went to net him, though, he shot off across the tank and swam around excitedly with the other zebra and the giant danios. I resumed my search for zebra #3 and #2 went back to that corner. Again he zoomed off as soon as I went in with the net. I smoothed out the gravel there so the lil trench was gone.
I'd resigned myself to looking behind the tank to see if #3 had managed to jump out through the little gap between the filter and the hood when I finally spotted him. The poor little twerp was stuck in the filter's intake tube. The tube is in 2 sections so that it can fit into different sized aquariums. The sections are identical and each ends in a cone-shaped grid. I don't know how the lil fella made it through the openings in the first tube's grid, but he did, and there he was, stuck up in there against the 2nd tube's grid. Sheesh. So, I shut the filter off, pulled off the extension and #3 swam away slowly. I was surprised he was still alive. For the next hour or two, #3 swam around near the bottom slowly while #2 hung around in his corner. I wasn't really optimistic about either of them. Later that evening, however, all 3 of the zebras were swimming around normally. They are, indeed, tough lil guys.
One of the zebras does seem to like to try to swim around with the giant danios. They ignore him mostly, but usually one'll kind of lunge at him and chase him off. Dream big, lil fishy. Dream big.
Work this week has been odd in a way. The gov't guy finally came to do the certification we'd requested back in November for the workstation. The security officer and I were both anxious about the visit and expected a fairly intense grilling and inspection. It all lasted maybe an hour or so, though, and the guy didn't even have us power the thing on. I get the impression we'll officially receive a certification letter in the next week or so. Honestly, the inspections for the lower-cleared workstations I've been through were a lot more intense. I keep wondering if another shoe is going to drop.
During the review of a checklist and verbal discussions during the process, I was told that some of the settings on the machine exceeded the level of security that was required. The same thing happened with the lower clearance machines I'd done in the past. In both cases, the workstations were set to the official requirements for their clearance levels. Even though they're supposed to be set that way, apparently almost nobody does, not even the agencies in charge of verifying they're set that way. Go figure. Still, I don't plan on changing those settings on the machine. Better safe than sorry. All it'd take would be one hardnose auditor to pull the machine's certification because of something like passwords that were only 8 characters long instead of 14. Yeah, it makes some aspects of using the thing more of a pain in the butt, but we can deal with that.
And before I forget, a happy birthday (one day early) to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gareg !
After a lot of squinting and looking from all around the aquarium, I finally spotted a 2nd one. he was on the bottom in the back of the tank in a spot where the gravel kind of dipped down. I couldn't see fin or gill movement so I sadly assumed the lil guy had died. When I went to net him, though, he shot off across the tank and swam around excitedly with the other zebra and the giant danios. I resumed my search for zebra #3 and #2 went back to that corner. Again he zoomed off as soon as I went in with the net. I smoothed out the gravel there so the lil trench was gone.
I'd resigned myself to looking behind the tank to see if #3 had managed to jump out through the little gap between the filter and the hood when I finally spotted him. The poor little twerp was stuck in the filter's intake tube. The tube is in 2 sections so that it can fit into different sized aquariums. The sections are identical and each ends in a cone-shaped grid. I don't know how the lil fella made it through the openings in the first tube's grid, but he did, and there he was, stuck up in there against the 2nd tube's grid. Sheesh. So, I shut the filter off, pulled off the extension and #3 swam away slowly. I was surprised he was still alive. For the next hour or two, #3 swam around near the bottom slowly while #2 hung around in his corner. I wasn't really optimistic about either of them. Later that evening, however, all 3 of the zebras were swimming around normally. They are, indeed, tough lil guys.
One of the zebras does seem to like to try to swim around with the giant danios. They ignore him mostly, but usually one'll kind of lunge at him and chase him off. Dream big, lil fishy. Dream big.
Work this week has been odd in a way. The gov't guy finally came to do the certification we'd requested back in November for the workstation. The security officer and I were both anxious about the visit and expected a fairly intense grilling and inspection. It all lasted maybe an hour or so, though, and the guy didn't even have us power the thing on. I get the impression we'll officially receive a certification letter in the next week or so. Honestly, the inspections for the lower-cleared workstations I've been through were a lot more intense. I keep wondering if another shoe is going to drop.
During the review of a checklist and verbal discussions during the process, I was told that some of the settings on the machine exceeded the level of security that was required. The same thing happened with the lower clearance machines I'd done in the past. In both cases, the workstations were set to the official requirements for their clearance levels. Even though they're supposed to be set that way, apparently almost nobody does, not even the agencies in charge of verifying they're set that way. Go figure. Still, I don't plan on changing those settings on the machine. Better safe than sorry. All it'd take would be one hardnose auditor to pull the machine's certification because of something like passwords that were only 8 characters long instead of 14. Yeah, it makes some aspects of using the thing more of a pain in the butt, but we can deal with that.
And before I forget, a happy birthday (one day early) to
gareg !