Catching Up

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   Today at work I marauded around the county with a different technician, Jeremy. He's around my age as well. One of the homeowners asked if we were brothers.

   Our first job this morning was this obnoxious Indian lady who had like seen four bees and called us. I don't think I saw a single bee at her house. Jeremy tried to tell her the only bees he saw were just randomly flying around (she'd made him climb onto the roof to look). She told us to spray them. We told her there was nothing to spray. She told us to spray them. We did some spraying. She told us we had not sprayed.

   "I'd rather have fifteen bees stinging my face than have two cockroaches on my foot" - Jeremy, on why he would never do generic pest control.
   We ran into some generic pest control guys in Carls Jr. Cue western music.

   Had my first yellow jacket nest today. After countless bee colonies and wasps, we finally actually got out the full bee suits for these guys. From all accounts yellow jackets are by far the most belligerent and unpleasant to deal with. After we turned the yellow jacket nest into Halabja we removed the comb and wrapped it in plastic because people back at central command wanted to see what yellow jacket comb looks like. It looks like bee comb without honey -- and the grubs squirm a lot.


   Report on the weekend adventures not ready yet, hopefully tomorrow.

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Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Saturday: Ashlee & Diedrichs - & Cool Kyle gets wailed on by a soccer net. At the time I wrote about it as if it was a lame evening but really it was all such good times. I remember that day like it was yesterday.
   Two Years Ago Sunday: You Know Its Not a Party If It Happens Every Night - A very astute observation. I survived the summer but for many other people involved it was only the beginning of things spiralling out of control
   Two Years Ago Monday: The Diedrichs Lifestyle - Suzanne is addicted to the Diedrichs kids, Shalane and I break up, and I crave a sandwich.
   Year Ago Today: Kristy Visits! - Strong sauce! Once again photobucket has murdered the photo quality, but you can view many of the photos on flickr.

Comments

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Dude. A request: Please ditch the small font.

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[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I just looked at my entry from your friends page and the font is about the same size as everyone elses, I don't know what you are talkign about.

[shid.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't killer bee's be the worst? Why don't yellow jackets make honey? ANSWER ME

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Yellow Jackets are carnivorous. And as to "killer bees," since they can breed with nonkiller bees, the small number of htem introduced to california has been heavily deluted by breeding with more docile native strumpets.

[ambiguouscase.livejournal.com]

did I mention that I love reading about your bee adventures??

You should really make that a book.

If I write a book, you'll be a part of it. You're too interesting to NOT be in a book.