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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Thursday, May 08, 2003
Blog Templates If you're reading this, and it's not the first time, you'll notice that I finally figured out how to incorporate my own template with my Blog. It really wasn't a big deal. The main reason I was having problems earlier is because I was getting way too advanced and technical for my own good. I was trying to get the template to create a new table (with the green header) for each different day of Blogs. There's obviously some limitations with the Blog code. I just decided to keep it simple. I think it looks great. Not sure I like the orange on the left, but it is a very tasty contrast. Now I just need to deal with the style sheets and get the color of the dates and rollover effects to match a little better. Exterior Work I spent the entire late afternoon and evening working outside. I bought a battery powered mini hedger to trim up my Pon Pon bushes. Using my huge extension-corded hedger is just a pain in the butt, since the blade is too long and hard to deal with the "sculpting" process. The thing held up for a long time. I totally hedged both of my Pon Pon bushes, and each one has five "balls". They turned out pretty good... I might do a little more "sculpting" this weekend. While working out in the yard, I inspected the "high-risk" corner that the Orkin guy pointed out to me that was "leaking". The roof doesn't leak, but I did notice that the brick mortar was pretty much corroded with pits and opening. Further inspection revealed about three of the larger Carpenter Ants making an exodus away from my house. I actually saw them come right out of these holes in the mortar. Fuck! At least they were LEAVING and not ENTERING. I went back to my local Dammon and bought some of the powder Boric Acid ant killer. Each hole got a nice squirt of my abortion maker. I also purchased some cement patch and pretty much went to town on the whole house. Damn! I spent hours out there today filling tiny pits that somehow found their way into my mortar. There were so many, I'm surprised the house hasn't collapsed. At least now I have a good idea on how the ants were getting into the house. And I think that the queen might not even be residing in my house. Perhaps she just lives under the slab. I couldn't believe how many "doorways" of busted mortar I found around the house. The whole back side of my house took me at least an hour to patch up. Even my south wall needed some patch work. And I discovered that under the side entrance door, the some of the concrete had corroded away, revealing the footer. Shit! That wood was wasted! I now realized why I have hundreds of spiders and other insects hanging out in my house. I patched the fuck out of that footer, completely covering it with concrete. I don't think that there's any other openings into my house. I think I have my insect problem licked. The main question I have now is where do the insects go that were in between the outside of my house and the inside of the brick? I guess if they can't get out, they might look for an exit inside. We'll see how that goes. At least now I feel pretty confident that my insect problem will be resolved. posted by Dino at 10:35 PM (permanent link) |