ANTS
I have ants in my house. I walked into the kitchen, set down my water cup, walked to the refrigerator, grabbed the pitcher of water, turned around to fill up my cup, saw an ant, smashed the ant with my cup, walked to the sink to refill the pitcher, and saw a few hundred ants.
Yes, I have ants in my house. I haven't exactly been diligent about keeping up with my home extermination regimen, and it finally bit me... so to speak. I spent a good 45 minutes cleaning up all the ants I could find and then exterminating the inside and outside of the house. It was an exciting evening while sick.
At least the diamondbacks won.
sickness, baseball, and squeezebox2s
I've been sick all week and it isn't any fun. It's nice to take a break from work but I would rather be taking it while healthy. I wasn't very encouraged to cough a bit of blood up this morning, but it seems to have been a short term thing. I am feeling a bit better today but just want this crud to go away.
Going to see the diamondbacks while sick last night wasn't the best idea. I felt alright during the game, but by the time I got home my throat didn't feel well at all. It wasn't a good game either. Since last Friday's game in Philadelphia was rained out they had to play a double header on Saturday. That screwed up the whole pitching rotation so we got to see Claudio Vargas instead of Javier Vazquez. Vargas was completely horrible, as expected, while facing one of the best pitchers in the game; Johan Santana. I usually refuse to leave games early, but not feeling well and losing 8-0 after 6.5 innings was motivation enough to get the hell out of there.
On a positive note my squeezebox2s arrived. You can check them out at http://www.slimdevices.com. They are set-top 802.11g (or wired Ethernet) MP3 players. They read the music from a "slimserver", which is a Unix, MacOS, or Windows machine running their software. The software is open source perl, so it can be run in probably any environment. I have my FreeBSD server where my MP3 collection is stored running it for both squeezebox2s. The audio can be synchronized between players or controlled separately. The displays are flourescent vacuum tubes that look amazing. They can be controlled via a web interface or via the infrared remotes that come with them. Enough of the advertisement, they do have some bugs, but it seems be mostly problems with the server software which I can attempt to debug and fix myself.