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Bugs, again
My house appears to have termites living in it. This is not cool.
About ten years ago I lived in a house in Pittsburgh that had termites in it too. I lived in the basement, so they were falling out of the wood floor and onto my bed. That was uncool. This time, it appears they are living in the wood wall between the kitchen and bath room, which means that when I went to take a shower this morning, there were a ton of dead bugs on the floor. That was ALSO uncool. I went to get some bug repellent, came back, found a bunch more bugs crawling around that wall area, and realized... wait a minute, those look awfully familiar.
Sigh.
So far I have washed about 200 of these termite-like bugs down the drain in the bath room, but I know that's not a solution. I hope I can get in touch with Sam soon...
Hmm, I didn't write an entry yesterday because I was too busy going through photos and stuff like that. But basically, I originally thought Saturday I'd either be hanging out with a CMU friend-of-friend, or I'd go watch college baseball. What actually happened is, the friend-of-friend had to work, and Hisashi Iwakuma was starting for Rakuten, so I went down to Chiba instead, and took about 800 photos, because who knows when I'd get that close to Iwakuma again?
(Iwakuma was 21-4 last year in Japan and won the Sawamura Award -- Japan's version of the Cy Young. Then in the WBC, he was the REAL MVP of Japan's team, even if Bud Selig decided to give it to Matsuzaka. I was a closet Iwakuma fan for years and now it's nice to be an open Iwakuma fan. He's awesome.)
In short, I got there around 1pm for a 2pm game, went onto the field, said hi to Fernando Seguignol and chatted for a bit, and ran into Barden again, he's this guy who's a business consultant but kind of grew up with the Fighters apparently. (He was sitting with Yukio Tanaka at the Kamagaya game on Wednesday; I could die with envy.) So after spending 7 innings in the camera well with a bunch of weird old guys, I went up to the stands and sat with Barden and Larry, which means that after the game (the Eagles won 6-2) I got dragged into the daily Marines promotion stunt, which was setting a Guinness Book of Records record for the most people getting their blood pressure checked in one place in a 24-hour period, something like that. They set it before a few years ago, then it was broken in Korea or something like that, so here they broke the record again, by doing it between Chiba, the Sapporo Dome, and the Fukuoka Yahoo Dome.
I made Jubaru-san take a photo of me getting my blood pressure checked, for the blog and all. Larry Rocca's in the seat next to me:
And every fan got a certificate from Bobby for getting their blood pressure checked. My pressure was measured at 141/85, which is maybe not so great:
On the other hand I believe that you are supposed to get your blood pressure checked when you are at rest and relaxed, not when you have just run out of a stadium because a Chiba Lotte Marines staff member has been pestering you to get your blood pressure checked for the Guinness Book. And you definitely shouldn't have it done after you've been watching Hisashi Iwakuma pitch. :)
I came home after that and ended up, oddly enough, reading some old college baseball magazines for a while, and going through photos, and then it was pretty much time to crash. Oh, and my brother called me on Skype for about 15 minutes so I got to talk to him and his wife, and see my niece, who is now 6 months old, and getting bigger and bigger.
Today it's about 90 degrees F outside, so I am actually in my dining room with the AC on a little bit... it's unbearably hot upstairs. No baseball today since I went to games pretty much for 6 days straight, I need a break. Volleyball tonight, though. Whee.
About ten years ago I lived in a house in Pittsburgh that had termites in it too. I lived in the basement, so they were falling out of the wood floor and onto my bed. That was uncool. This time, it appears they are living in the wood wall between the kitchen and bath room, which means that when I went to take a shower this morning, there were a ton of dead bugs on the floor. That was ALSO uncool. I went to get some bug repellent, came back, found a bunch more bugs crawling around that wall area, and realized... wait a minute, those look awfully familiar.
Sigh.
So far I have washed about 200 of these termite-like bugs down the drain in the bath room, but I know that's not a solution. I hope I can get in touch with Sam soon...
Hmm, I didn't write an entry yesterday because I was too busy going through photos and stuff like that. But basically, I originally thought Saturday I'd either be hanging out with a CMU friend-of-friend, or I'd go watch college baseball. What actually happened is, the friend-of-friend had to work, and Hisashi Iwakuma was starting for Rakuten, so I went down to Chiba instead, and took about 800 photos, because who knows when I'd get that close to Iwakuma again?
(Iwakuma was 21-4 last year in Japan and won the Sawamura Award -- Japan's version of the Cy Young. Then in the WBC, he was the REAL MVP of Japan's team, even if Bud Selig decided to give it to Matsuzaka. I was a closet Iwakuma fan for years and now it's nice to be an open Iwakuma fan. He's awesome.)
In short, I got there around 1pm for a 2pm game, went onto the field, said hi to Fernando Seguignol and chatted for a bit, and ran into Barden again, he's this guy who's a business consultant but kind of grew up with the Fighters apparently. (He was sitting with Yukio Tanaka at the Kamagaya game on Wednesday; I could die with envy.) So after spending 7 innings in the camera well with a bunch of weird old guys, I went up to the stands and sat with Barden and Larry, which means that after the game (the Eagles won 6-2) I got dragged into the daily Marines promotion stunt, which was setting a Guinness Book of Records record for the most people getting their blood pressure checked in one place in a 24-hour period, something like that. They set it before a few years ago, then it was broken in Korea or something like that, so here they broke the record again, by doing it between Chiba, the Sapporo Dome, and the Fukuoka Yahoo Dome.
I made Jubaru-san take a photo of me getting my blood pressure checked, for the blog and all. Larry Rocca's in the seat next to me:
And every fan got a certificate from Bobby for getting their blood pressure checked. My pressure was measured at 141/85, which is maybe not so great:
On the other hand I believe that you are supposed to get your blood pressure checked when you are at rest and relaxed, not when you have just run out of a stadium because a Chiba Lotte Marines staff member has been pestering you to get your blood pressure checked for the Guinness Book. And you definitely shouldn't have it done after you've been watching Hisashi Iwakuma pitch. :)
I came home after that and ended up, oddly enough, reading some old college baseball magazines for a while, and going through photos, and then it was pretty much time to crash. Oh, and my brother called me on Skype for about 15 minutes so I got to talk to him and his wife, and see my niece, who is now 6 months old, and getting bigger and bigger.
Today it's about 90 degrees F outside, so I am actually in my dining room with the AC on a little bit... it's unbearably hot upstairs. No baseball today since I went to games pretty much for 6 days straight, I need a break. Volleyball tonight, though. Whee.
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