Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Leftover apple spice cake (again) for breakfast. Also a bagel with cream cheese. Pruned and edited my bookmarks page. Shopped for a new monitor and a DVD/VCR combo player. Cleaned and organized and labelled the kitchen cabinets. Also sealed all foods in ziploc bags. Rain stopped today, ants mostly gone. They ate all the bait! I forgot to mention my dilemma yesterday when buying ant bait. I decided to go with Terro—a small bottle of liquid bait that you simply squeeze out onto cardboard scraps and set out—because I respected that company's desire to give me more actual poison for my money and forego the need for plastic, fancy-shaped containers for the bait as with the Raid traps. That's like spending money for pests to have a luxurious building in which to eat their poison. Or it's like serving them the poison on fine china plates. Ridiculous! The Raid containers intrigued me, however, particularly because of the alarmingly friendly text blazoned across the top: "Kills the hive queen and the colony!" I pictured Ender Wiggin rolling his eyes (or something). They should have added on the back of the box: "Slaughter ants surely and easily!" or "Wipes out every ant soul!" Errands: Diamond Video, Tower Market (to pick up our sharpened knives from the butcher shop), Andronico's. Dinner at home with Patrick: farfalle al salmone—yum! Ate the last of the apple spice cake for dessert (finally!). Watched Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl on DVD with Patrick: surprisingly fun—don't forget to watch past the credits. BSOD again while watching. Early into the next morning I did a clean install of Win XP on the problem computer.