Lots of bees around my house yesterday.  I called a bee removal company to come out and check it out.  They found this:



That big yellow thing inside the cabinet is a 30-pound bee hive...  yikes.  The bee removal company I hired, Bee Best Bee Removal, was pretty awesome.  Here's a pic of they guy that came out, Jeff, vacuuming up dead bees this morning:



The bee hive is all gone now, except for a few confused survivors that should move on in a day or two.  I'm going to get rid of the cabinet as well.  :)  At least they didn't set up a hive inside the attic or something... 

Current Mood: relieved

dustyjack , when I saw this product, I immediately thought of you.

• 10:19 Waiting to get many hairs cut. Music is LOUD and ANNOYING -- perfect conditions for a stranger to wave sharp things at my head...

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• 20:42 Shopping for groceries at 8:45 PM -- so calm and relaxing!

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• 09:55 Going over to help my dentist configure the networking and A/V equipment in his home. Professional courtesy, or something more sinister?

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• 14:52 going out to bar now LOL (Hi Rue!)
• 22:21 Discovering the awesome addictiveness of peggle. So colorful. So wrong.

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• 01:36 Playing with tinytwitter... when I should be asleep #
• 01:40 @miss_shelby congrats on getting rehired!!! #
• 09:04 Running late :( #
• 09:10 Also, I finally got 1000 GP on Blue Dragon last night. Total time played: 197 hours... #
• 15:22 @jamespark your itunes knows what's best for you! #
• 16:49 Deploying the latest version of Adobe Reader to 700 clients via Group Policy -- which is much more difficult than it should be... #
• 23:10 @jamespark So beautiful, my browser crashed! #

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• 13:20 Testing loudtwitter! #

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Thanks in part to inspiration from saiamander , I have updated my amazon wish list.  I will continue to update it as new things occur to me.  Those who are interested may go look at it now:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/30MCPZ76TLL3S

It's been a while. I'm sorry I haven't been in touch lately. I've been dealing with a bunch of personal issues. Well, I suppose I should clarify that -- I've been dealing with a bunch MORE personal issues than usual.

Both my therapist and my nutritionist have been encouraging me to write things down, so I may try to post more often. But I can't promise anything, so I hope you'll be understanding if I proceed to merrily fall off the face of the earth again.

I want to keep this first note short, LJ, so I'll just conclude here with a few things I've been doing lately:

• I've spent the last week or so playing Fable 2.  I took a couple of days off from work to do that as well.  I suppose I would rate the game as an 8-ish or so out of 10.  Enjoyable and replayable but there are some issues that I wish were better than they were.
• My weight loss is still stalled.  I have been in the 270-285 range for over a year now.  I have some theories about why, but I'll save that for another post, I guess.
• I have DeQuervain's syndrome in my right hand.  It started back in July, and I've been to see a Orthopedic surgeon a few times.  He's done X-rays and I had an MRI of my hand, none of which revealed anything significant.  So the treatment is to wait and let it get better on its own.  I now wear a thumb splint for it.  It is only painful when I perform certain motions a lot, and the pain instantly goes away if I stop moving my thumb around, so at the moment it is a tolerable condition.  Though I've had to learn to do more things with my left hand than I used to.
• jadeprince turned me on to the band LUDO and now I am completely in love with them and their music.  For a couple of weeks now, I have been belting out their songs in the car.  It sounds awful, and people probably stare at me, but I DON'T CARE.  That's how much I like it.  It's very theraputic after a long day at work.  :)

Gotta go, LJ!  Love ya!

Current Mood: crazy