errantember: (darth bobo)
Don't Fucking Touch Me

Which part of "To touch me is to die" did you not understand?
errantember: (Little Cowboy Scott)
Collateral Celebration

It's good to know it's not just *my* life that's in danger when I fly across the pavement on my EVTA Deathmobile!

It *LIVES*!

Jun. 9th, 2009 10:52 pm
errantember: (Little Cowboy Scott)
The road first to auto-mobility and later to legality has been a long one for the Echomobile, the 1997 Geo Metro that will soon be mine.

MINE!

First [livejournal.com profile] trippedbreaker and I replaced the clutch, an operation requiring the removal of the entire engine. It was the first Major Surgery I'd ever done on a car, and completing it added a lot of confidence that I could do most of the maintenance myself if I owned one. That project started back when gas was $4/gallon, a place it seems on its way back to now, and a 50+ MPG car is good to own in that situation.
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errantember: (Little Cowboy Scott)
I just killed about 400 mosquito larva by siphon draining my Mom's fountain. I'm watching some of them twitch in breathless agony as I'm typing this. I've been tormented at my house by mosquitoes recently, and this is sweet, sweet revenge!

And if that's not doing God's Work, I don't know what is!
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Thanks the this nifty new invention called mosquito netting, I was able to extend my post-nightly-sleeping nap for a good 'nother three hours today. After getting up at 2 pm and having a snack, I was feeling pretty tired so I wandered outside to finish reading the Amber series. We don't get weather in Austin where it's nice enough to lay out very often, so I was really loathe to get up off the uncomfortable plastic pool chair I was vegging on when the mosquitos started showing up. Luckily I managed to find the netting, still in the box after a year, without killing my low-conciousness buzz, and drowsily assembed it over the chair. I then proceeded to roll over and continue napping until almost dark while some small part of my mind gleefully enjoyed the frustrated buzzing of tiny parasites that could *almost* reach my face. :) During the last 20 minute Loki finally figured out how to reach me and hopped up into my lap.
errantember: (St. Ember)
Last we left our Hero, his victory over the forces of Fleakind was nearly complete. However, like a bad cartoon designed to sell toys, the Evil Villian has returned after several months of No Fleas, requiring a hose-down of the Loki-dog with pyrethin following his first post-Kerrville Folk Festival potty break. Ironically, I actually found a flea on me as I was starting this post. Why was that ironic?

Behold!

http://www.diyhappy.com/quick-and-dirty-mosquito-trap/

I just made one of these and put it outside to help control my OTHER Bloodsucking Creature of God Problem (not the vampires - we've worked out an oral sex thing that does wonders for both of us.) It turns out, though, that fleas use a very similar mechanism (tracing carbon dioxide) to find their hosts, and another friend of mine suggested building something quite similar to help with adult fleas.

So where's the irony?

I had just come in from placing the trap when I found the flea on my leg. :)

I'll take some pictures in a week or two and see what we've captured.

Then we will dance a jig upon their watery grave while we gibber and howl.

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