July 1, 2002
or
unknown reasons, I didn't sleep well last night. Weird dreams, including
a discussion with Natalie Portman on whether the cardboard cutouts that
they had of her (did they? I never saw any) to promote Star Wars Episode
2 Attack of the Clones made her butt look big. And then, a long discussion
with a guy at work as to why I'd been pronouncing his name incorrectly
(I've only talked to him twice, he's not in my area), as everyone should
know his name is Adlam, not Adam. So, I woke up dazed and confused, to
be sure. The non-concious mind has its own agenda, and the conscious mind
will never know what that is.
I started stripping this weekend. No, get your minds out of the gutter.... paint stripping. Suz has a bureau (not a federal one) that she wants stripped and refinished. So, I went to Home Depot, and bought some stuff, and started on the drawers. In some ways, it was easier than expected. The main covering of paint is coming off fairly easy, but the second and final pass isn't quite what I want yet. There'll be a lot more work before it will be done, including the casing. But, I've got a good start on it.
Ants. I've discovered we have ants. Not the one or two I find on my computer table each morning, but hundreds of thousands of them, running between a point outside the computer window, to the place where the air conditioner sits outside of Suz's bedroom. It's a good 25 feet, and the line is almost solid black with ants running back and forth. I tried to find where they were going under there, to no avail. I was wondering if there was a dead animal or something that they were feeding on, or if it was just an extension of their home. Now, of course, I'm stuck between my desire not to hurt living things if at all possible, and my desire to rid the house of the possibility that they'll invade. I try not to eat or drink at my computer, but the fact is, there is food in here, at least in the kitchen, and if they invade there, I'm going to be quite unhappy. We'll have to see which impulse wins, but I'll be honest, I'm already thinking about making another stop at Home Depot.