Unidentified Flying Objects
Today Jeremy and I arrived at an RV sales lot to fight purported wasps. What we found were things that looked kind-of like wasps, but had bright green eyes and lived in little burrows in the ground (little holes they'd excavated themselves, as evidenced by the fresh dirt mounds around them). We had no idea what they were. So we blasted them with chemical weapons. Then I capped one with the wasp spray (stuff's vicious, kills on contact) to take back to central command for identification. Unfortunately the wasp spray blackened her body (it previously had black and yellow stripes) but here you can see the pictures I took of our little model, on top of an aerosol can lid (from a bottle of the wasp spray no less). Our fearless leader Dave later identified it as a "metallic sand bee." I searched wikipedia and google for this term and came up with nothing.. if someone can help me out (ashael?) I'd like to know what the dealio with these kids is.
Shortly later we came across yet ANOTHER unidentified flying object. Another wasp-like creature was coming in and out of a vent on a building. Its abdomen was much longer and slenderer than the typical paper wasp one is used to. Unfortunately Jeremy was a quicker draw with his death ray than I was with my camera, and none could be found after his assault, so no close inspection could be made.
Jeremy and I roughed up an EZ Lube today where an employee made off with his gas card last week and spent $200 in gas. Actually the manager was as enthusiastic as possible about prosecuting the responsible employee (who is already on suspension due to the occurance) to the fullest extent of the law.
Today Alexis, the French exchange student staying with us for a few weeks, went with me down to Diedrichs. It appears he had a splendid time there and got along swimmingly with Villem.
I think I had much more to report for today. It seems to me I kept going through the list of things I wanted to write about in my head today and it was much longer than this. Hm.
I got paid today for last week's work. $410 for four days of work. Man that used to be most of a month's pay at Wild Rivers.
Because I spent the evening at Diedrichs after work (the weather was too pleasant this evening to hide inside!), no progress has been made on reporting on this weekend.
Picture of the Day
Another from this past weekend. This is right next to Santa Cruz (Capitola I think?)
Previously on Emosnail
Two Years Ago Today: Robin Kivlin Has a Party - and Eric from The List, AKA citizene, comes into town and goes to Top of the World with the Diedrichs crew and I
Year Ago Today: Photo Essay: Kristy & I go to the San Diego Zoo - and a giraffe tries to get jiggy with it. As usual photo quality is better on flickr, though I haven't put all the pictures from the original photo essay on flickr.
Also, I think the colour might be slightly off on this monitor (or more accurately, the brightness or contrast), so editing pictures here is perilous because what looks good on this computer may not look good on others.. but there is no more reliable computer here for these purposes )=