Monthly Archives: August 2008

Actually, it’s ants, but I was using “Rats!” like an interjection.

There are ants in my kitchen! They seem to be smaller than the ones I’ve seen before. And their butts are more pointy. And they don’t seem to like the Terro I always use to kill ants. They LOVE Max’s cat food cans, though. They must be meat-eaters. Meat eating ants… *jibblie* That sounds like a horror movie to me.

I’ll keep putting Terro out, but I might need to find another way to stop this monstrous army.

Yesterday we tried a new thing at school: Instead of having the regular before-school meeting, we had a “campus work day”. We located things around school that needed fixing, cleaning, organizing, painting, etc… then we broke into groups and did them. It was pretty cool.

As I said earlier, I decided to work on restoring the “privacy screens” between the urinals in the boys bathrooms. I had one divider to hang in the Middle School, and three dividers to hang in the High School.

The Middle School bathroom was kind of fun. It was morning, I was playing an old mixed tape I made for Beth when I was in college, and there were people in the hallway laughing and having fun. After lunch, I hung the three dividers in the High School. That wasn’t as fun. There was no music, no people, and the walls I was drilling into were wearing out masonry bits faster than I could replace them. I persevered, though. Behold, the magnificent result!

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In the Middle School, several people worked on the copy room. It was a disaster, but now it’s OCD-riffic!

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I went to school again yesterday. It was officially our first before-school workday. Once again, I did things that didn’t really change the appearance of my room. But they were things that needed doing, so I don’t feel too bad. One of these days I’ll need to get my room ready for kids though.

The most exciting thing that I accomplished yesterday is something that I have not experienced since I began having email. My inbox is empty. And it wasn’t just that I put thousands of emails into some folder named “saved”. I did want to save a few emails, but they were categorized into “interesting links” and “temporary storage”. There are a total of ten emails between the two folders. The rest are deleted. And they aren’t just in the “deleted” folder. They are gone. They have been banished into the aether. They do not exist anymore. Finito.

I’m awesome!

Yesterday it came time for me to fill my truck with gas. I don’t really keep track of how often I have to get gas. I don’t really even keep track of how much it costs. I have to use my truck, and my truck has to be filled with gas. Since there’s no getting away from it, I don’t worry about it too much. It’s a necessary expense.

But here’s a weird thing: The last two times I’ve gotten gasoline, the pump has stopped before I was done filling up. The first time, it stopped at $50. I swiped my card again and finished filling up. This second time, it stopped at $49. Again, I swiped a second time and finished. It seems strange that this is happening all of the sudden. Is it my card? Is it the stations? Is it the government? I bet it’s the government. Stupid government.