Why can't I have an intergalactic death ray? Just a leeetle one, please?

I don't have one of those handy, but I'll be happy to point an evil eye in the direction of your choosing.

The job I'm working all week is now requiring us to wear hard hats while working in the grid because a guy split his head open a couple of weeks ago. Banging heads on things has always been an issue in this place because there are too many pipes/rigging equipment/building structure at head height. The problem with hard hats as a solution is that they effectively make your head 3" bigger on all sides. Now there is constant refrain of thunk "fuck!" thunk "dammit!" My neck is sore from jerking away from things I don't usually have trouble ducking under. I'm there thru Saturday. Woo-hoo!

I realize it is a serious pain in the noggin and all that, but the moment I got to

Now there is constant refrain of thunk "fuck!" thunk "dammit!"

Thankfully, the officemate is gone today.

Beej, this sounds brilliant. Since they're all coming from a (relatively) small opening in the side of my windowsill, maybe I'll tape a dish-soap-soaked glob of paper towel to cover it. That way they can't fly out, and if they try to eat it they'll get all dead-like. Or I'll just squirt half the bottle in there and listen to them scream.

(And I feel much better about my attack, since I had nowhere near those numbers... still icky squicky though.)

Or I'll just squirt half the bottle in there and listen to them scream.

This!

They need to be coated to diediedie. But the papertowel may just hold them back without the carnage.

If you go the paper towel route. Please print "Beej says hi, suckahs!" in the side facing out. I'll enjoy that.

I burst out laughing.

We were laughing, too. I'm not sure the funny will last all week, though.

Beej, I'm all about the carnage. And I'll do you one better, I'll scream something like "This one's for your Fire Island brethren, FUCKOS!"

My neighbors have gotta know I'm weird by now, and if they don't, they should.

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Interesting...:

The Illinois General Assembly is about to rock the nation. Members of state legislatures are normally not considered as having the ability to decide issues with a massive impact to the nation as a whole. Representative Karen A. Yarbrough of Illinois' 7th District is about to shatter that perception forever. Representative Yarbrough stumbled on a little known and never utilized rule of the US House of Representatives, Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives, which allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature. From there, Illinois House Joint Resolution 125 (hereafter to be referred to as HJR0125) was born.

Detailing five specific charges against President Bush including one that is specified to be a felony, the complete text of HJR0125 is copied below at the end of this article. One of the interesting points is that one of the items, the one specified as a felony, that the NSA was directed by the President to spy on American citizens without warrant, is not in dispute. That fact should prove an interesting dilemma for a Republican controlled US House that clearly is not only loathe to initiate impeachment proceedings, but does not even want to thoroughly investigate any of the five items brought up by the Illinois Assembly as high crimes and/or misdemeanors. Should HJR0125 be passed by the Illinois General Assembly, the US House will be forced by House Rules to take up the issue of impeachment as a privileged bill, meaning it will take precedence over other House business.

Huh.

Go FIBs!

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