Damn ants.

I’ve got stupid ants in my apartment.  It’s been a battle for a couple weeks now.  When I first saw them they were in my bedroom treking around and found an empty pop bottle in the trash.  Took care of them and then 3 days later there was a trail running along the kitchen floor to under the stove.  They managed to find a little square of dried up cheese (I assume from when I made an omlette).  Killed them and then they found the dog food.  Dammit.  Killed those ones and moved the dog food.  They found where I moved the dog food tonight.  Eliminated the automatic dog food feeder completely now.  I’ll just give him a single serving.  The damn things are inside the walls.  Stupid “garden level” apartment.  There isn’t a trail from outside or anything.  Just a trail to the carpet trim which they go under and to holes in the moldings.  What a shithole complex this is.  I went down and got this gel crap for them to take back to the queen and put it in all the places Ive seen them.  Nothing in all of the places but one.  Gotcha.  Took a look and there was 2.  Looked later and it was about 20.  Now its too many to count and they are feasting it up coming out of the moldings.  I almost wish it was something bigger so the dog would kill them.  He’s a great bug hunter but he can’t really see ants and they don’t run away so they are no fun to him.  In Charleston there are roaches in every single building there.  They don’t call them roaches there though.  They call them “palmetto bugs”.  My ass, I know a roach when I see one.  Anyway the dog made quick work of them.  I think I was the only one that wasn’t infested out of all the people that I knew who lived in base housing.

I volunteered to work the Special Olympics in Des Moines on July 1st.  About 400 Cessna Citations volunteering to bring the athletes from all over the country to the games.  I can’t say I really care about the cause or anything.  Just a chance to do something different.  All I am going to be doing is towing the planes out of the way so the next plane can come unload.  No marshalling or fueling or anything.  It will be busy though.  During the peak a plane will hit the ground every 60 to 90 seconds with an overall average of 1 every 2 minutes and 15 seconds over a 15 hour period.   Hopefully they will fly us up there in the Bonanza or something.  Ben is trying to work that by volunteering to fly it.  I doubt it though.  A more likely senario is a driving up there.  I’m off to bed, I’m tired.