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i've got ants in my pants
Literally. There are ants everywhere in this city. In our first house, little, tiny 
black ants that apparently don't bite would appear either over night, or after we had been out. Most of the time, they are not very organized, and don't really seem to follow any sort of line - they just wander around aimlessly once they get inside, like they are milling at a party, and feeling lucky if they come across a buffet. I noticed today that they had found some melted candy above the fireplace, and there were a few of them eating the food, but there were no queues of ants coming to and going away from anything. In fact, alot of ants were moving to and fro, randomly around the place as if they could care less where they were.
The most coordinated action I have seen is when you happen to leave a piece of paper on the ground, or a shirt maybe. You'll think to yourself, 'hmm, I've seen that piece of paper on the floor there maybe 2 hours or so, maybe I'll pick it up and put it in the trash now'. You pick it up, and unsurprisingly, the ants are all huddled up there, shocked that you found them, but not really doing anything useful.
I'll buy some ant poison the next chance I get, but I wonder if it will even work. How much of an effect can poison have, when the ants won't even organize themselves enough to bring everyone in a line, as any self-respecting ant would, to their demise?
black ants that apparently don't bite would appear either over night, or after we had been out. Most of the time, they are not very organized, and don't really seem to follow any sort of line - they just wander around aimlessly once they get inside, like they are milling at a party, and feeling lucky if they come across a buffet. I noticed today that they had found some melted candy above the fireplace, and there were a few of them eating the food, but there were no queues of ants coming to and going away from anything. In fact, alot of ants were moving to and fro, randomly around the place as if they could care less where they were.
The most coordinated action I have seen is when you happen to leave a piece of paper on the ground, or a shirt maybe. You'll think to yourself, 'hmm, I've seen that piece of paper on the floor there maybe 2 hours or so, maybe I'll pick it up and put it in the trash now'. You pick it up, and unsurprisingly, the ants are all huddled up there, shocked that you found them, but not really doing anything useful.I'll buy some ant poison the next chance I get, but I wonder if it will even work. How much of an effect can poison have, when the ants won't even organize themselves enough to bring everyone in a line, as any self-respecting ant would, to their demise?
wow, almost a whole month
I haven't posted to this blog in almost a month.
That doesn't mean that I'm giving it up, it just means that I've been too busy!
Setting up a new life in a new country takes alot of time and money. And SLEEP.
And, a reliable internet connection. Which, until last night, I didn't have.
In the house in Carona, I had the worst shared wireless connection I have ever experienced. I don't know where it came from or who owned it. I do know that they never changed the default password on their router, as when you opened up the admin page, the password was actually auto-filled in by the router itself! I simply clicked 'log in', and was in. I could see that about 5 or 6 people were using it. I think one of these people was constantly using the connection to download movies 24/7 or was running a large website off of it.
Sometimes you could browse the net, and it would work great for about 5 minutes, then the next second, it would freeze up and stop working. Sometimes restarting the wireless card would get you back on, but then the next second, no worky. That will definitely turn you off of wireless.
Anyways, long story short, I ain't been posting. Plenty to tell tho...
That doesn't mean that I'm giving it up, it just means that I've been too busy!
Setting up a new life in a new country takes alot of time and money. And SLEEP.
And, a reliable internet connection. Which, until last night, I didn't have.
In the house in Carona, I had the worst shared wireless connection I have ever experienced. I don't know where it came from or who owned it. I do know that they never changed the default password on their router, as when you opened up the admin page, the password was actually auto-filled in by the router itself! I simply clicked 'log in', and was in. I could see that about 5 or 6 people were using it. I think one of these people was constantly using the connection to download movies 24/7 or was running a large website off of it.
Sometimes you could browse the net, and it would work great for about 5 minutes, then the next second, it would freeze up and stop working. Sometimes restarting the wireless card would get you back on, but then the next second, no worky. That will definitely turn you off of wireless.
Anyways, long story short, I ain't been posting. Plenty to tell tho...
Thursday, March 20, 2008
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