The Agrinautica

Quotes
"After killing bees all day how can you sleep at night?" -Alvin Tsao
"Well, its 3am and I'm not asleep am I." -Me. I wouldn't sleep for 20 more hours or so.*

Office Dave was shleffing through business cards looking for the silkscreener who made our shirts last time. He came upon a card from someone we rent lifts from or something, the company was named something like "John's High Reaching" or long reaching or something.
"You ever wonder how people get into things like this? Like did John just wake up one day and go shit, I'm good at reaching shit, I should start a reaching company dammit" -Me.
"Yeah how do people these weird businesses... like bees..." -someone else
"I just woke up one morning and was like you know what I want to do when I grow up, I want to reach my arm into holes filled with bees!!" -Jeremy

Jeremy is gassin some bees, I'm standing next to the truck, a guy comes by and sees the bees flying around the dying colony:
"Are the doing that because there's a queen there?" -guy
"uh.... there's always a queen. -Me, after being dumbfounded for a minute on how to even respond to that.
"but they're doing that because there's a queen there right?"
"uh.. there's always a queen, you have bees, you have a queen."

"There's the bees" -some client
"um sir, thats a pinecone" -one of the technicians, arriving at a call that turned out to be a pinecone.

*but I had just woken up from five hours of sleep you see.


Today
   Today I finally got down to Diedrichs again, for the first time in at least a week. Alexis the Frenchman came as well. There were two chess boards going at Diedrichs. The regular chess games are starting to attract more chess enthusiasts. Today there was this guy Brett who teaches Chess to the children of rich people for $30 was down there. He was damn good and gave a few pointers to everyone. There was also this guy Jim who is 62 and has three masters degrees. Then this middle-aged guy who it appears had just come in for coffee joined a game.
   Former Diedrichs-area security guard Danny showed up which was awesome because I hadn't seen him in a year and he is awesome.
   After Diedrichs closed down after 10:00 Alexis went with Mike & Brian to this bar/place called Le Cave that purportedly was pretty cool and had jazz music. I didn't go though because jazz music usually involves saxophones and saxophones to me are like nails on chalkboards. Apparently they continued to play chess there.
   After they left Brett and I ended up talking about logical fallacies, paradoxes, & logical riddles. Eventually we went to Harbour House to continue talking, and played some chess.

In Other News" my laptop which is essentially dead at this point.


Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Thursday: First Occasional LJ Awards - & I see Bullets N Octane at Chain Reaction, & hang out with Hannah at Wild Rivers
   Two Years Ago Today: Getting Hassled By The Constabulary - And hanging out with Jimmy McTaig & making the Steel Reserve shirt and hanging out with Hannah at Wild Rivers.
   Year Ago Wednesday: Peasants Quest comes out!!! - And pictures of Petey & Shalane.
   Year Ago Thursday: Gutter Punk Trogdor!!! - and some chillaxing at Diedrichs

edit: original post time: 04:37 (moved to 23:37 to put on previous day)

   Today Jeremy and I arrived at an RV sales lot to fight purported wasps. What we found were things that looked kind-of like wasps, but had bright green eyes and lived in little burrows in the ground (little holes they'd excavated themselves, as evidenced by the fresh dirt mounds around them). We had no idea what they were. So we blasted them with chemical weapons. Then I capped one with the wasp spray (stuff's vicious, kills on contact) to take back to central command for identification. Unfortunately the wasp spray blackened her body (it previously had black and yellow stripes) but here you can see the pictures I took of our little model, on top of an aerosol can lid (from a bottle of the wasp spray no less). Our fearless leader Dave later identified it as a "metallic sand bee." I searched wikipedia and google for this term and came up with nothing.. if someone can help me out (ashael?) I'd like to know what the dealio with these kids is.

   Shortly later we came across yet ANOTHER unidentified flying object. Another wasp-like creature was coming in and out of a vent on a building. Its abdomen was much longer and slenderer than the typical paper wasp one is used to. Unfortunately Jeremy was a quicker draw with his death ray than I was with my camera, and none could be found after his assault, so no close inspection could be made.

   Jeremy and I roughed up an EZ Lube today where an employee made off with his gas card last week and spent $200 in gas. Actually the manager was as enthusiastic as possible about prosecuting the responsible employee (who is already on suspension due to the occurance) to the fullest extent of the law.


   Today Alexis, the French exchange student staying with us for a few weeks, went with me down to Diedrichs. It appears he had a splendid time there and got along swimmingly with Villem.


   I think I had much more to report for today. It seems to me I kept going through the list of things I wanted to write about in my head today and it was much longer than this. Hm.
   I got paid today for last week's work. $410 for four days of work. Man that used to be most of a month's pay at Wild Rivers.
   Because I spent the evening at Diedrichs after work (the weather was too pleasant this evening to hide inside!), no progress has been made on reporting on this weekend.


Picture of the Day

Another from this past weekend. This is right next to Santa Cruz (Capitola I think?)

Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Today: Robin Kivlin Has a Party - and Eric from The List, AKA citizene, comes into town and goes to Top of the World with the Diedrichs crew and I
   Year Ago Today: Photo Essay: Kristy & I go to the San Diego Zoo - and a giraffe tries to get jiggy with it. As usual photo quality is better on flickr, though I haven't put all the pictures from the original photo essay on flickr.

   Also, I think the colour might be slightly off on this monitor (or more accurately, the brightness or contrast), so editing pictures here is perilous because what looks good on this computer may not look good on others.. but there is no more reliable computer here for these purposes )=