Hijinks at HQ

   A few days ago we removed a honey bee colony* that was filled with various maggot-like creatures & black beetles. It looked horrible, like a bee version of Resident Evil or something.
   Back at HQ we extracted a single black beetle and put it in a plastic bag for identification. It looked just like an all-black ladybug. Upon presenting it to Boss Dave he quickly identified it as a hive beetle and told us to immediately bag up all the honey from the colony and drive it to the dump.
   The hive beetle it turns out, if it were to outbreak here, would infest hives, causing them to become a messy wreck, and the bees to flee (abscond), and become an angry marauding swarm of bees. In conclusion: beepocalypse! Well maybe not but it sounds worse than the overrated africanized bees (which incidently, are much more resistant to hive beetles).
   The bag containing the specimin hive beetle was pinned to a bulletin board in the office.

   Saturday it is discovered that the hive beetle is no longer in the bag. Bag is still sealed. No one admits to doing anything with it, and Dave's rather livid.


   Also Saturday morning -- Dave: "Whats that brownish stain that looks like coffee on your truck?" Ryan the Younger: "oh, its something that dripped off my new roof" Dave: "oh. I was going to say.. it didn't taste like coffee"
   Laughter turns to nervious laughter turns to oh god he's not joking.
   Dave: "funny story about that. This one time I go to this call and these people have this yellow substance dripping down a pipe in their garage and they say its honey. So I taste it, and then I'm like 'NOPE, thats urine!' the homeowner-wife then had to leave the room. But yeah, it was raccoons." wtf!


   So office Megan spends most of her time looking at pictures of pitbulls online. Personally I tihnk pitbulls are ugly, but whatever, I can relate to thinking animals are cute -- I myself have been known to peruse pictures of anteaters while bored -- but she's got to do this for hours every day. Its kinda weirding me out.
   Megan has also changed the background on the computer she uses to a picture of a pitbull. On Saturday, as a prank on the office girls (who don't come in on the weekend), we changed the background on both computers to this big picture of boss Dave. I can just picture Megan falling out of her chair when she turns it on and comes face to face with the Dave picture.


   Saturday evening I went with Nidia & her friends to see her boyfriend Chuck Norris' band play in San Clemente. Her friend Marybelle it turns out was the Secretary-General of a big MUN conference (WCIMUN) I went to in 2001 or so. Marybelle kind of reminds me of Cari Ham if you replace the personality of satan with one of good will and sociability.


Picture of the Day

Bob: "All that climbing around when we were little finally payed off ey?"


Previously on Emosnail
   Year & A Week Ago Yesterday: Flogging Molly Show - At the OC Faire. Hung out with Hannah & Allie, & Alex.
   Year Ago Last Monday: Visiting Shalane II - Another adventure in Banning. Lately she's been doing well I think and hanging out with a boyfriend in North County or something.
   Year Ago Last Wednesday: Plazcrak - And I go to the OC Faire again.
   Year Ago Today: Quotes from Work - Such as "there's the bees" "um no sir thats a pinecone
   Year Ago Tomorrow: Apiacidal Competition - On the bee killing competition.