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Asian Lady Beetles

These are what I have been fighting for the past month…  I now have a collection in my room of them.  Ewww….. are they dead?  No.  I have pets.  I taped all my window frames to keep them out…. no luck…. I taped any cracks I could find in my walls or windows…. no luck…. I still pulled over 30 of them out of my room in the span of three days.  This was war.

I went to Ace Hardware in BG and bought a roll of 36″ wide Nylon Screen.  I had a Martha Stewart session (only not in prison) where I cut custom screens for my vents and then taped them over my register and sealed all cracks in the panels on my vents.  Bugs in my room to date since then?  2.  Where from?  Don’t know, but possibly the hallway (which has a LOT from all the other rooms).  The fun part is that now I have 17 or so that hang out in my room between the screen and the vent cover.  So they’re trapped, but they like the light of my room and flock to it.  Now I have pets.

Other than the bug war, I’ve been nailed with six major reports all due within a month time span…. So my life has become one of eat, sleep, class, work, report writing…. repeat.  Not exactly fun, but it will be worth it when they hand me that diploma and I never take a class again.   So THAT is why I’ve neglected xanga lately.  Sorry… but I’m sure you’ll live on in my absence!

The CedarCreek Worship CD Project entitled “First Light” comes out Nov. 28th (The day after Thanksgiving) and will first be sold at our Christmas Concert that night with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.  That should be fun, but I’m not sure how it’ll work for me yet….. I was supposed to go to Sarah’s house for Thanksgiving, but I don’t know if they are expecting me to be at the concert or not.  I have to talk to Mark about that…

I have had a fiasco on my hands with the server at CedarCreek.  First one of the RAID drives crashed, then it was semi-repaired, then fully repaired, then the email wasn’t working right…. We got added to two black-lists because spammers were hacking into our server and using it to send out spam…. GRRR!  Then I fixed that loophole and had to re-test the security, add a bunch of patches, then contact the black-list operators to unlist our server so it could send to other email places that had banned us (roadrunner, clearchannel, owenscorning, etc…).  Hopefully that’s fixed now…. THEN it stopped accepting mail from outside sources sending to us!  GRRR!  That should be fixed now too.  I’m thouroughly convinced that computers fear me, but servers hate me.

Oh… and I did get a sweet deal via Ebay on a brand new, sealed in the box Dell 1703FP 17″ Flat Panel Monitor!  Originally sold for $530 plus tax and shipping and handling (so roughly $590), I got it for $375 total…. SCORE!  I’m geeked about that and it should be here by Halloween.

So between server crap at work, reports at school, wedding plans with Sarah, and normal life operations (eat, sleep, working two jobs, full time classes)… you may or may not be hearing from me very often over the coming weeks.  At least no promises until I get these reports under control.  Until next time… Keep your pants on, your nose clean, and your stick on the ice.