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Geeky finds

Thanks to @physicistlisa, I discovered the awesome coolness that is GeekSoap. I couldn’t resist buying a few.

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There’s the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy soap at the top, the d20 soap on a rope and the d20 massage soap at the bottom.

Pretty cool stuff. Haven’t used them yet; they’re almost too cool to use! Plus you have to love the fact that her main website is The Pink Toque. That’s such a great word, toque.
I followed @geeksoap to @GeekyLyndsay, who makes these cool dice bags, including this uber-cool caffeine dice bag. If I was still gaming and still had mounds of dice, I’d probably have to buy one of those too. I’ll even overlook the fact that she’s from Calgary because of the coolness of her dice bags.

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Dragoncon 2010

It’s on for Dragoncon 2010! Hotel reservation made (according to Rick anyway) and pass purchased. Looking forward to my second one. Should be a fun time!

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Doggie hotel

Seems like all the dogs coming here are staying longer than expected. Macho arrived this weekend, and thought he was going to be staying the week, but it turns out it’ll be more like two weeks. There will be four dogs in the house for a little longer than planned. It won’t be the first time there have been four dogs in the house though.

Definitely need to keep up with the vacuuming though. Just the carpet alone was a one Dyson job after one day. I expect that there will be much time spent at dog parks over the next couple of weeks.

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Bugs R Us

Saturday’s bug invasion was followed yesterday with the appearance of similar but smaller bug carcasses scattered about the house. These new ones were about half the size of the ones I was squishing the other day. Haven’t spotted any new bugs crawling around since Saturday though.

Will have to check the garage and around the outside of the house and see if there’s anything going on.

Wonder if I should call the bug guy in to check things out.

Update: Bug guy confirmed that the bugs were Formosan termites that have been swarming recently. Said they sneak into houses, and then die because there are no good places inside houses to establish colonies. After checking out underneath the house, he said everything was good and that any other termites that get into the house will probably die too.

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Kinda buggy

I have been spotting and squishing a number of these little bugs around the house this evening

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Not entirely sure where all these bugs are coming from or what to make of this sudden invasion. I squish a bunch, and then a few minutes later I see another one crawling around on the wall. They look a lot like the bug Dan squished at the SMCCHS meetup last week. He said it was a Formosan termite and that they were swarming this time of year. It looks like a bunch of them swarmed into the house this weekend.

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Except for my room and the bathroom, I haven’t noticed them anywhere else in the house yet. This will definitely require further investigation.