Week in Review
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kate_nepveuOn Tuesday morning, we had:
A Household Drama In Three Lines
Scene: Tuesday morning. A steady, heavy rain can be heard on the windows and roof. As Chad lies in bed, from across the hall comes the rattle of shower curtain rings being pulled aside. After a pause, Kate enters the bedroom:
KATE (breathlessly)
Okay I'll take the dog for a walk.(beat)
CHAD
How big is the spider?
Kate holds up thumb and forefinger about three or four inches apart, while saying
KATE
It's one of those fuzzy things. In the bathtub.
Chad exits the bedroom; as ominous banging noises issue from across the hall, we fade out.
(It was reddish-brown, flat, many many fuzzy legs, and looked something like a cross between a caterpillar and a centipede. We get a fair number of them, and I hates them, precious, hates.)
It rained basically all week, though after Tuesday mostly not in the morning, which is fortunate because the dog hates the rain. She was sick a lot this week, throwing up on the carpet twice; she's due for her shots soon and we'll ask the vet what more we can do besides special food and daily OTC acid-reducers (well, in addition to making sure she actually eats the pills and doesn't leave them behind). Poor doggie.
Got my iPod this week and spent too much time wrestling with it. I will spare you the tedious details, but it turned out to be a problem with confusing third-party software and defective hardware on my end, rather than an Apple problem. It's working beautifully now and I'm delirious with geeky joy.
I had a nice day yesterday: went back to bed after getting up with the dog because Chad was sound asleep (thereby combining self-indulgence and virtue, a rare combination), poked around with my iPod, read a good Heyer (Venetia, out of the library), did some housework, and ate a very lovely dinner Chad cooked for me, including crème brûlée (I even helped with the torching). Today Chad's folks came up for lunch, which is always nice, though I foolishly ate a little too much and am a little sluggish as a result.
Emmy has just finished getting her dinner out of the food cube, so we're going to take her for an after-dinner walk in a few minutes (before it starts raining again) and maybe then watch one of my presents, The Italian Job. A pretty good weekend, all in all.
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Date: 2004-08-01 04:34 pm (UTC)Yay iPod!
Silverfish or house centipede?
Date: 2004-08-02 02:20 am (UTC)http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/other.htm
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/uniramia/thysanura.html
http://www.uark.edu/depts/entomolo/museum/house_centipede.html
I'm pretty sure what Ken and I saw was a house centipede. I can't believe he picked it up and squashed it using just a tissue. I suggested at least a paper towel folded up many times to protect against the "juice", which Ken admitted there was a lot of. Idiot.
Anyway, I wonder which is what Kate saw.
Re: Silverfish or house centipede?
Date: 2004-08-02 04:56 am (UTC)The latter, I believe, though they look pretty similar to me.
(I'm not Kate, but I'll answer to spare her looking at the pictures...)
Re: Silverfish or house centipede?
Date: 2004-08-02 06:59 am (UTC)At least I know what they're called now. Thanks.
Re: Silverfish or house centipede?
Date: 2004-08-02 08:13 am (UTC)Re: Silverfish or house centipede?
Date: 2004-08-02 08:46 am (UTC)(We haven't been in CT for a couple of years now.)
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Date: 2004-08-01 04:39 pm (UTC)Mmmmm, creme bruleee. *Rain's attention wanders off* Is Chad's DNA available for cloning purposes?
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Date: 2004-08-02 07:02 am (UTC)And yeah, they're really nasty, they move fast (one almost gave me scuttling across my path late at night), and apparently they are not happy about attempts to wash them down the shower drain.
And the creme brulee was made from the mix that came with the kit, though we'll try the real thing next. (The recipe doesn't look that hard.)
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Date: 2004-08-02 07:19 am (UTC)I appear to have edited the gory description down so much it was incomprehensible. =>
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Date: 2004-08-01 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-02 07:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-01 08:38 pm (UTC)Every spring, I swear I'm going to get one, although it's easier to just whack the shower invaders with my rubber duck. (That's what rubber ducks are for.)
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Date: 2004-08-02 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-03 12:06 am (UTC)My mother had an ant swarm in her shower today. What is it with showers? I know, they're damp and drains lead to them, but still, they're naked places. Vermin should NOT be allowed in naked places.
I hate hate hate house centipedes, and the pictures on that centipede page (http://www.uark.edu/depts/entomolo/museum/house_centipede.html) give me the heebie jeebies, but I do love the text. "Quivering, lashing appendages," forsooth.
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Date: 2004-08-03 08:56 pm (UTC)One page I found explained what it is with showers and sinks. The house centipedes go there for the moisture, and then cannot climb the porcelain walls out.
I found house centipedes to be both kind of cute and very scary. I think I once tried to scoop one up with a piece of paper, and it ran along the paper and up my arm. That felt kind of neat. But they are scary looking, and move damn fast, and I don't like the idea of their guts/juice on me at all.
I hear that some tarantulas are edible and taste like crab. I have doubts as to whether I would be able to eat one. (Cue my spiel about Shelob and a rocket launcher, including the lament that she's probably psychically poisonous as all hell.)
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Date: 2004-08-02 07:05 am (UTC)Looking at that link, I think I'd want something that would let me release the bug without putting my hand near the opening that the bug is going to scuttle out of, but it is at least cheaper than the other kind. Hmmm.
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Date: 2004-08-02 09:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-03 12:17 am (UTC)Belkin makes an iPod holder that fits into a car's cupholder, which is kind of cute.
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Date: 2004-08-03 07:08 am (UTC)I should look at some of the windshield-mounted holders with long necks.
Hmmm.
Funny reaction
Date: 2004-08-02 02:56 pm (UTC)Re: Funny reaction
Date: 2004-08-02 06:06 pm (UTC)The expensive bugvac does zap them, I don't know if you saw.
Re: Funny reaction
Date: 2004-08-02 07:24 pm (UTC)*re-checks URL provided by
Hm, that was not expensive and did not zap the insects. So, no, I did not see the expensive bugvac.
Re: Funny reaction
Date: 2004-08-03 07:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-01 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-02 07:07 am (UTC)Chad is my hero--he can be fazed by particularly big bugs, but he kills them for me anyway.
And probably would even if I didn't offer to walk the dog in the pouring rain.
That is a house centipede.
Date: 2004-08-02 07:07 am (UTC)Re: That is a house centipede.
Date: 2004-08-02 07:09 am (UTC)And that was long, not wide; Chad killed it so he probably has a better idea of its size, but it was big, and we had a bigger one on the wall a few weeks ago that gave even Chad a start.
Re: That is a house centipede.
Date: 2004-08-02 08:15 am (UTC)Re: That is a house centipede.
Date: 2004-08-02 11:39 am (UTC)Wolf spiders creep me out on occasion.
Re: That is a house centipede.
Date: 2004-08-02 11:44 am (UTC)Re: That is a house centipede.
Date: 2004-08-02 12:04 pm (UTC)Nobody says of a house fire, "They take care of sterilizing the dirty dishes," after all.
Re: That is a house centipede.
Date: 2004-08-02 02:58 pm (UTC)Not entirely harmless [That is a house centipede.]
Date: 2004-08-03 08:58 pm (UTC)Dog and movie update
Date: 2004-08-02 07:10 am (UTC)And the 2003 _Italian Job_ DVD has an Easter Egg; highlight the first deleted scene and then go left, a little Mini sillhouette will appear, and you'll get about 6 minutes of Seth Green riffing on his voiceover in the garage of Handsome Rob and Becky's imagined conversation. Pretty funny.
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Date: 2004-08-02 07:29 am (UTC)Hope doggie feels better soon.
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Date: 2004-08-02 06:07 pm (UTC)It was too damn big, that's all.
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Date: 2004-08-10 10:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-10 10:58 am (UTC)