Yah!

I apologize to those looking for Part 3 of my journey to Laos...the hours I had scheduled this afternoon to work on it were interrupted by an attack of new bugs. The last few days I had begin to suspect that I had either acquired a new species of ants, or brought them back somehow from Laos. The previous ones would only show up when I had food, they would make a straight line towards it and I could usually trace the trail of them all of way from their getaway in the corner of the room towards whatever delicious morsel I had left out. If I removed the food, I would try and sweep along their line of advance to kill as many as I could, but the rest would be left to their devices and would shortly disappear to wherever they had come from. But these new guys, besides the fact that they were smaller, darker and faster, just don't really leave. I can usually spot a few of them on the ground if I look hard enough, and they aren't going anywhere, just sort of meandering around.

And then today, I'm laying in bed reading, when a bug lands on me. My focus broken from my book, I look up and notice 50 or so insects hovering around my light. Where they came from, what they are, I have no idea. Are they connected to the ants, did they suddenly evolve and grow wings like those bugs in the Smoothie King used to? I don't know. They are way bigger than the ants, so I don't think its likely, but I'm no entomologist. What I do know is that I spent the next 2 hours trying to kill them all, not to mention the crawly bugs that were either them before they had wings or them after their wings fell off. Or at least I hope thats what they are, otherwise I have THREE new insect species suddenly popping up in my room.

Either way, the few hours I spent killing them means I'm tired, cranky, and in no mood to wax poetically about Laos the way it deserves. So I'm going to do one last sweep of my room to make sure I've gotten all the buggers, and get some sleep. Everyone enjoy your Sunday and the Oscars.

TPWWLT - Bob Dylan - 'Like A Rolling Stone'