I have a pest-control service that visits my house once a month. It’s probably more expensive than me just buying some bug spray and going around the outside of my house myself, but I like it because I’m forgetful and I’m lazy.
The sprayer guy came yesterday, and texted me before he came to ask if I had any requests. I asked if he could come inside the house to spray. It’s included in my price, but I’m never home to let them in. This time I was! Awesome!
My plan was to hold Bruno while the spraying happened, then put him in the car and go for a drive while the spray dried. They use a pet-safe formula, but it should be dry before letting pets into the rooms it’s been sprayed.
The guy came in, and pumped his sprayer. It squeaked, and Bruno FREAKED. He hissed, jumped out of my arms, and ran behind the couch. I tried to coax him out while the guy sprayed, but no success. I asked the guy not to spray the living room, blocked off the living room doors, and waited for Bruno to come out, which he eventually did:
Later in the day, I realized he had torn my shirt as he jumped out of my arms:
Still later, I realized he had given me some nasty scratches. But hopefully I won’t be seeing any silverfish for a while.
It’s not warm out, but it isn’t as cool as it was during the winter. Still, Bruno insists on sitting on me all the time. I try to put him under his blanket, but he prefers my lap.
It’s nice, I suppose. Unless I need to get up to get a drink or something. Then I feel like I’m spoiling his whole night.
I went to get a new bag of cat food for Bruno. They didn’t have the large size of his regular salmon flavor, but they did have large tuna. I was leery of switching without a trial, so I got a small bag instead.
He loved it! He almost wouldn’t go back to the remaining salmon in his bowl. That settled it – I went back for the large tuna.
As a bonus, the tuna-flavored food doesn’t stink like the salmon food does. Nice!
It was an adventurous trip back to LA, but not because of turbulence, thank God. It was because I was seeing all kinds of new places. It started with our departure point – La Guardia Airport. I don’t think I’d ever been there. It was nice.
And even nicer, Denis has a credit card that gets him (and a guest) into the United Lounge. Wow! It was beautiful, had comfortable chairs, and free food!
On the flight to Denver, I watched Groundhog Day. It had been a while since I’d seen it. It was fun to see again.
It was not, however, fun to use the bathroom. I had noticed this on the flights out to New York as well – people weren’t putting tissues in the trash. Is this a thing now? Just throwing used tissue and toilet paper on the floor of the airplane bathroom? Yuck.
In Denver, we stopped at the United Lounge there. It was even bigger. We grabbed some free food and headed on our way, but not before I did a quick walkthrough of the whole place. I’m going up the steps in the picture below:
The flight to LA went quickly, and soon I was home again. Someone was really happy to see me:
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