I know I've mentioned my dad's love affair with his microscopes. He loves to spend hours peering at little microscopic beasties. I like to find him new water samples from different places. One of the sources he loves to scope is his small fish pond. It's tiny really, just a few coy in it. Well, something amazing has happened. He found a creature that he couldn't identify. He posted it on the chat boards he uses and nobody else seems to know either, however a guy from a university is intrigued and not only would like to collaborate with dad on studying this thing but thinks it might be a totally new species. I'm very excited. Dad is totally in heaven. I am so happy for him. It's kind of one of his dreams. It's not often enough that people get to realize a dream, no matter how small. So many times people give up on their dreams, loose their hopes and end up just going through the motions of life instead of living it. Dad helped me realize one of my dreams when he financed our trip to Chicago to see the Tut exhibition. And then while we were gone all this happened with his microscopy. Hopefully this is just the beginning. I want him to get on to smaller and smaller things since bigger and bigger things would mean he wouldn't be using the microscope, lol.