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**DrBee** · 07-31-2006, 09:51 AM

Lise - poo on Mr. P. At least you had fun with your friends! Aargh!

**DrBee** · 07-31-2006, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by Nanci

Here's another quirky southern thing that doesn't happen up north. You have a well, and a pump. One afternoon, your water just quits. Then, at night, it may mysteriously start up again! Hmmm- ants are in the electrical contacts that control the pump! They go to bed at night, and your water starts working again, unless there are some bodies stuck in the contacts. No one knows why they are attracted to the contacts. You have to learn how to shut off the electricity to the pump (which at my house isn't the main breaker in the house youch!!!!!!!!!) and how to dismantle it and get to the contacts, then figure out what exactly constitutes "contacts," then clean them with a nail file, then go psycho spraying killer insecticide all over above your ground water supply so it doesn't happen again after the 5000th time...

There no other way to put it...that just sucks!

**Nanci** · 07-31-2006, 09:56 AM

Well, it's worth it to have well water, not city water...

**chickwhorips** · 07-31-2006, 10:01 AM

not a fan of city water. grew up on the best well water, though now stuck on city water for now anyhow....

**maillotpois** · 07-31-2006, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by SadieKate

Works for me! Don't forget the chain whip. Maybe Big Pois had something fun planned for it.

Hmm. S&M with a chain whip. That's a little beyond my pain threshold....

Got the bike all cleaned up. It was just so sad, having not been ridden since it stopped raining. Looking ready for action now!

**DrBee** · 07-31-2006, 01:13 PM

Mr. Fish just called - AC is back on! It was the refrigerant. We were apparently nearly out. He sounds miserable. It's only 91F right now, but the HI is 100!

I'm headed home!

MP - enjoy riding the trainer. And I don't know about the chain whip...

**maillotpois** · 07-31-2006, 01:18 PM

Glad the A/C will be on the mend, Fish!

Nanci that is the strangest thing I have heard of about the ants... just wild. We were on a well when I was growing up, but didn't have that problem that I was aware of. We didn't have a lot of ants though.

Lise - sorry about Mr. P flakiness. Whoever is the true Mr. P for you is going to have to be one miraculously wonderful person.

**chickwhorips** · 07-31-2006, 01:20 PM

fish - glad that the ac is back. life will be a bit more pleasent tonight.

i'm fighting with myself on if i should get todays steepandcheap item. its a nice jacket, and could use it, but the problem is that its wind-resistant. i need wind proof with all the wind out here, but i could use another jacket. i only have one.....

**Nanci** · 07-31-2006, 02:01 PM

Chick- That jacket, while a good deal, is still expensive if not perfectly what you want. BTW, the Mountain Hardwear windproof jacket is excellent. Try to find one of those on clearance like at Sierra Trading Post or Back Country or even Steep and Cheap. North Face makes an excellent windproof jacket, too.

Fish- glad to hear the AC is working!

MP- the ants thing is apparently well-known in Florida. As soon as I mentioned what happened, _everyone_ knew what it was and what to do. There are bad ants down here. Up north we just had the huge black carpenter ants, regular brown ants, and rarely, biting red ants. Down here there are burning biting fireants that can actually kill people! Then the plain old brown ants bite and sting. Sugar ants- micro ants that get in the house. Oh, fireants also get in the house. Some weird black and red medium-sized ants that seem to be solitary and don't hurt anything. Giant red velvet ants- (like red velvet cake???) that are solitary, don't hurt anything, and are really cool. Oh, they are actually wasps, but look like ants and I don't think they have wings...If I could make one creature vanish- it owuld be ants.

**Nanci** · 07-31-2006, 02:03 PM

I just bought another pair of Crocs because I love the first set so much. I can't believe I love them more than the Birks I've worn for 20 years, but I do...The new ones are fuschia. The first ones were lime green. My friend Teresa is going to borrow them for the day tomorrow to see if she likes them.

**chickwhorips** · 07-31-2006, 02:04 PM

thanks nanci i'll keep my eye out for those other ones. you just help me set my mind.

reading your thing of ants makes me really happy that there isn't any here. don't get carried away by any of them! have you seen the movie ant bulley? not sure if its out yet, but that was the other thing that made me think of.

**Nanci** · 07-31-2006, 02:11 PM

I just read about Ant Bully yesterday. My first thought was -good- the kid gets in trouble for killing animals, but now today, here I am, wanting to erradicate the earth of ants. But not for torture purposes- I just don't like getting bit and having to worry about them killing one of my pets.

What I'm dying to go see is "A Scanner Darkly."

This is weird- we got new radiology residents today, right? So one of them grows tobacco for a living, too, apparently on a large scale. That's kind of weird- a doctor who reads films to look for lung disease, (not to mention does studies on pts that have had laryngectomies, due to cancer) growing the product that causes it. It's like job security. It disturbs me!

**Lise** · 07-31-2006, 02:13 PM

Wow. Ant-o-rama. That's one thing about those really warm climes. Sooo much fauna. Ants give me the creeps. I lived in Jamaica for 2 months a few years ago, and ants are everywhere. One crumb left on a countertop attracts the whole colony, it seems. Well sealed Tupperware is essential. Something I'm sure most Jamaicans don't have much of!

Only entitled Americans who can't stand ants in their breakfast cereal, again.

It's 98 with a heat index of 108 up here. I got about 3 hr sleep in my relatively cool bedroom, came out, and the living and dining rooms were way too warm. The poor little hand me down window unit in the DR is struggling mightily. I realized that the curtain I hung between the DR and kitchen had some open space at the top, through which hot air was pouring. So I fixed that with a towel, and remembered to turn on the ceiling fans in the BR and DR. Feeling better now. Wanted to cool off with a bath, but the bathroom's in the "hot wing" of the apartment! These old brick buildings get like ovens in this heat.

I have a feeling my friend and I are going to *walk* more than we run tonight at 8. At least the sun will be setting. We have a plan for Jamba Juice afterwards!

**Lise** · 07-31-2006, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by Nanci

This is weird- we got new radiology residents today, right? So one of them grows tobacco for a living, too, apparently on a large scale. That's kind of weird- a doctor who reads films to look for lung disease, (not to mention does studies on pts that have had laryngectomies, due to cancer) growing the product that causes it. It's like job security. It disturbs me!

Now that is interesting. I wonder how he resolves that for himself. Curious.

**Lise** · 07-31-2006, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by maillotpois

Lise - sorry about Mr. P flakiness. Whoever is the true Mr. P for you is going to have to be one miraculously wonderful person.

Yeah, MP...I'd be pretty happy with I like him, he likes me, we like being together, and he wants to stick around...

OK, smart, handsome (in my eyes, anyway, we know about Peter Reid's variable appeal

), hard working, athletic, financially sound, loving, strong, gentle...these qualities are also quite desireable! Just, that "click" for both of us, to start with.

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