Mostly about my amusement
This morning we had no dead yellow jackets in the bedroom. We got home after 7 PM tonight and found two new one’s on the carpet next to the door of the closet. They were both dead but that means at least this morning some of them were alive enough to get out of the closet.
Tomorrow morning the exterminator comes back and we will see if we’ll see if anymore of them are alive or not.
I’m really, really beginning to hate those little monsters.
Check out this interview with John McCain on the Time/CNN website. It’s a little disturbing how far he’s gone off from being himself. He is not the same man who competed with George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination.
A picture tells the story.
There were 65 dead ones, mostly around the windows. Yellow jackets die off quickly and try to get out via the windows.
Friday we will open up the closet. I’m betting there will be well over 200 hundred dead ones.
Scientists at an Italian observatory this year succeeded in firing lasers at the mirror-covered Ajisai Japanese satellite, proving that a sequence of photons can travel great distances through space.
It’s an article about quantum key encryption but the title made me laugh. Larry Niven has been writing about communication lasers almost as long as he’s been writing.
In my closet on the ceiling, the plasterboard is soft and discolored in a small area. Looks like a leak in the roof and there is this noise which I though was something dripping. The noise was constant and we just figured that it was some leak from a pipe in the attic. I had no idea why there would be a pipe there (there wasn’t) but the stain looked like water damage, so it was either a pipe or the roof.
So I go get the ladder and climbed into the attic. I had to crawl through a small space to get to the top of my closet. It looked bone dry and the insulation did not seem to have any mold. There was no sign that the roof was less than perfect.
So my Dad went into my closet and pushed a wooden dowel through the soft part of the ceiling. The hole he made was around a 1/4 of inch wide if that much.
When he took the dowel out approximately 20 wasps came through that tiny hole like dive bombers. I just made an appointment for Terminex to come here TODAY.
I’m glad it’s not a roof or some mysterious non-existant pipe but now I am locked out of my room while I wait for the exterminator.
UPDATE: Well the gentleman from Terminex was here. What happened is this: by poking the small hole in the ceiling, we made a simple extermination job really, really complicated. If we did not make that hole, then he’d have made it but would have a) covered it up and b) pumped poison into the nest and just kill them.
My closet (with it’s door closed and a towel at the bottom!) has over 100 hornets inside. So he gassed the nest from the outside and then gassed the closet. There are a bunch of dead hornets in my bedroom. I’m to NOT go inside that closet until FRIDAY. At that time either things will go really well and I’ll have a lot of dead hornets to clean up, or things will be really bad.
Either way if I open up that door and a dozen or more are still alive, I’m going to get stung. Can’t wait for Lily to come back home… all of her clothing is in that closet.
Politics sure make for odd reading. John McCain’s campaign is reaching out for the angry bitter myopic accusatory how can you be so sexist supporters of Senator Clinton.
“She won millions of votes. But isn’t on his ticket. Why? For speaking the truth,” the narrator in the ad says.
That’s really funny. In 1999 I had so much respect for Senator McCain. But he wants this too badly and apparently will say anything to get the votes.
I voted for Senator Clinton in the primaries. But as it turns out more people voted for Senator Obama. Instead of panning and diminishing his accomplishment, why must some (not all) of Senator Clinton’s supporters continue to harp on this? What was Senator Obama’s camp supposed to do? Crawl hands and knees asking for the approval of the person who lost?
I had thought she was better qualified. I also thought her campaign just expected a shoe-in and did not really try. Florida and Michigan? That was her campaign attempting to cheat. Those states broke the rules and all the candidates agreed to stay clear of them. So when her campaign tried to play the “but wait! Florida and Michigan want me!!” card, I lost respect for her as a candidate.
If (or when) John McCain wins the election, it will not be due to an effort on his side. It will be because the Democrats are too in enthralled with their own drama.
NY Times has a cool map to see what’s at the end of a train line.
It’s about time. If the rules say you have to be 16 years old the same year as the Olympics, then that’s it. Putting on a 14 year old is just very stupid 1950 style communist government.
You know I hate to see any detainee die in prison. And I always believe if there is negligence or misconduct that ought to be punished. I also recognize that the population of any detention facility, whether it’s a state prison, federal prison, you’re going to get a certain number of deaths.
Aftermath of an Immigrants Death in Detention – City Room – Metro – New York Times Blog.
That must be comforting to the family of Hiu Lui Ng. I wonder what is the percentage of deaths at a facility has to be before it’s considered a “problem”?
On Saturday August 9th, my car got broken into and the Nuvi 360 was stolen. The window was fixed last week and today I received the replacement navigation unit. This time with a no-slip dashboard stand.
Lily and I thought about which one to buy. Rather than getting the latest and greatest, we just opted for the same model. It works really well, has good Bluetooth support, and I’m used to it. Also it was several hundred dollars cheaper than when I first bought it. Why mess with what I’m used to?
Our next car will almost certainly have GPS built in, so this one is destined for my MINI Cooper.
This time I’m using the Garmin lock feature. It works like this: when the GPS unit comes on and it’s at home, it just works. When I’m away from home it will ask for a PIN. If I forget the PIN and can’t take it to it’s home position, then I’ll have to send it to Garmin to have it unlocked. I’m registering this new one with Garmin.
This won’t prevent my window from being smashed (yeah, yeah, I’m not leaving the unit in my car anymore) but if someone does steal it, at least it will be useless to the next person.
