Hey who am I to judge. I wouldn't want the sweaty masses to touch me either. Ugh. Cooties. Regarding Lawrence, KS, and most of the rest of kansas, you are right about it being white. Hell, I'm probably the whitest around and even I am taken aback by the lack of diversity. But barring that, it's a typical college town. Too bad she wasn't there when 'sack was. They could have hung out.
Yeah, I can see where people get that perception from... but if you knew the personal space issues she has/had (as in would panic attack after shaking hands kind of issue), the fact that she's that close to people is huge progress from where she was before. And knowing her manager, I have no doubt that the rules/costs were spelled out well before the pics are taken, so it's not like they showed up and THEN found out the rules for the pic. For all we know that also included 10 minutes of one-on-one time to talk to her. Again, it's easy to judge when you take a superficial glance at something without knowing the details. And it seems that only the people who didn't want and get their pic taken with her are the ones bitching about it.
My wife has this cousin, pretty much of a fuckup. I made the mistake of believing him when he said he knew how to do electrical work. Three of the four things I had him do were seriously messed up. Plus, he's maybe borderline autistic, as in very socially inept. Anyway, said cousin shows up at a family gathering and someone asks him where his father is. The father is one of these nice old guys who's always pleasant and everybody liked. So, cousin says "Oh, he died a couple of weeks ago, I had him cremated." He had not told anyone in this vary large family about this before. File under WTF.
You gotta get out front on this. Shave your head. Shaved is so much better than progressive balding. The ladies love it. Or so I'm told (full head of hair here.) No really, our very hot niece just married a guy with a shaved head. Tres cool.
I can attest to this, my roommate is a pop country artist signed with Universal (just got signed... you haven't heard of him). Going from his music/videos alone it would be very easy to judge him in the classic "pff, this isn't real music, it's unoriginal and formulaic and this guy sucks and what is the world coming to and get off my lawn." Truth is though, he's an awesome guy who's a good musician and has worked hard at marketing himself. And he never claims that his music is high art; he's proud of his work, but he's also well aware that a big part of what he does is just "playing the game." People tend to assume that all these pop artists think they're genius visionaries, but I think a lot of them are normal(ish) people who are just trying to succeed in their field like anyone else. He enjoys it and figures it's better than working in an office... I see no problem with that.
Been a few long days getting shit built up for the drive back to BC... and my feet are killing me. I need new shoes or something because my dogs are barking. But... I now have the biggest road case I've ever seen built and ready to mount in my trailer, gps, stereo, and cb radio mounted in the jeep, new nerf bars are mounted, and now I'm pretty well left with just the packing of my clothes and stuff to fill the box. I should be good to go by Wednesday, I'd say. So much stuff to do, but eating that elephant one bite at a time gets the job done. Just about done a bottle of wine, and feeling no pain... and tired. Happy birthday, you queens.
Well, I'm drunk as hell. And I just finished my prep for tomorrow's lesson. While very drunk. Should make for an interesting day, especially since I am going over the culture of the 1990s, which was literally the most formative decade of my life. We're two weeks away from finals, and I cannot wait for this school year to be over. Without exaggeration, this has felt like the longest year of my life. Just a few more bullshit hurdles to get over, including about 18,000 standardized tests all given next week, the week before finals. Why? Cause apparently the kids aren't stressed enough by finals, we have to throw extra testing at them. Hooray!
I know I'm late to this conversation but "Ortho Home Defense Max" works great. You spray it around the perimeter of your doors and windows and it will eliminate all types and sizes of ants and other critters. It can be used both inside and outside. Obviously if you are in a kitchen area don't spray it inside if there is exposed food. Check it out, you will be happy with it. Works significantly better than any type of ant traps.
If you put salt down ants won't cross it. It eats their bodies. And I just read an article where they said if you make a mixture of peppermint oil and water and spray around your house it will keep spiders and mice away. I'm going to try that as I get those awful awful spiders in my basement. No way in hell they're making it upstairs. They're not! Don't even make a joke about it. Nope. And seriously, was this picture necessary in the article? Spoiler Why are they touching it? One time I was at the Aquarium in Inner Harbor. There's a part that you walk through that is kind of jungle-y and there's a sign about spiders being in there--tarantulas specifically. I start sweating, because WHAT IF THEY DROPPED ON MY HEAD!? I'd be shoulder checking everyone out of the way getting out of there, that's for sure. But everyone else was cool so I just took a deep breath and wandered in, on edge the whole time. Yeah, what they failed to mention is they were in there, but in clear plastic boxes. Why must they torture me like that? It's like they're sadists or something. Stupid aquarium.
Screw natural remedies, most of them work for shit. Borax is supposed to stop ants and roaches, it did neither in my last apartment. You don't want gangly legged demon insects fucking with your sanity? Pull out the big gun chemicals. There is quite the satisfaction seeing them writhing in pain turned over drowning in Raid.
But that means I have to get near them. I'd much prefer them not entering the house at all. They hide out in my drain in the sink in the basement. I actually get up on my toes and peek over the edge to see if there's one in there every time I'm down in the basement. They're fast suckers, I don't want them to see me. I've killed so many of their comrades, they're bound to hate me.
I'm always a bit back and forth about Van Halen with Sammy Hagar. "5150" is one of my favorite VH songs (despite the shitty drum sound) but sometimes I think they didn't quite reach their potential. Especially when I hear this song (off of an incredibly underrated album "Standing Hampton" - why this album doesn't get more due is beyond me):
I LOVE Van Hagar... no bones about it. My all-time favourite song to play acoustically is Best Of Both Worlds... saw Sammy play it at Cabo Wabo with a very cool meld into Eagles Fly and I was hooked for life. I'm also a huge fan of Chickenfoot. And in other news, the plan is coming together.
I'm still dying from the sinus allergy infection fuck off head cold snot nose from hell. I got sick shortly after coming home from Maine - and my brother says he has the same thing, which he got from his wife. She's Patient 0. So much gross right now.
Going back a bit, I visited Lawrence, Kansas once a few years ago and during the tournament too. My girlfriend and I watched the game with some of her college friends and you would have thought the world was ending as they lost it. Seems like it would be one boring ass flyover town if it weren't for the almighty basketball. On the other hand, Kansas City is surprisingly awesome. I've never been able to get that into Hagar. I saw Van Halen live with David Lee Roth a few years ago and it was a great show. I tend to like Van Halen's earlier stuff. Isn't Hagar a decent singer? I'll admit, Diamond Dave probably wouldn't make it as an acapella artist anytime soon...
Salt won't kill ants and the only thing peppermint oil is going to do is make the spiders and mice smell nice as they crawl across your bed at night. Think about it logically - if all these home remedies worked so well, why in the world would anyone have developed cypermethrin, and what fool would ever buy it? I buy Cyper WP in 1 pound jugs online for 25 bucks and it lasts me over a year. Last time I sprayed I squirted some in a crack in a retaining wall. I happened to come back by about 10 minutes later and the black widows had crawled out to die. Why would I trust my family's safety to peppermint oil?
'Cause Gwyneth Paltrow (probably) says so. Just be certain to get organic natural peppermint oil too, or the bugs will contaminate your home with the GMOs in the oil.
Oh my God. It's like you hate me. Really? Like I needed these images floating through my head. I hate you. If I ever gave red dots, you'd be the first. If I hadn't already mooned you, I'd be doing it right now. You had to mention bed and spiders? That's too far, sir. Too, too far.