Bug Update: Painted my windowsill today and left it open a bit so it could dry. I don't have a screen behind my window, so of course a big ass hornet flew into my room while I was still in it. Luckily I had the presence of mind to grab my fly swatter before fleeing the room like a little bitch (and before you ask, no, I don't keep a fly swatter in my room at all times, I just had it with me because this particular hornet has been hanging around this side of the house for days). Unfortunately the window was only open a little bit, and the dumb**** hornet couldn't figure out how to get out, so I had to open a window from the outside. Just my luck when I went outside to open the window I obviously lost sight of the hornet, and when I got back he was nowhere to be found. I realized that this almost certainly meant that he was gone, but I just couldn't be sure if he hadn't just landed somewhere. Also just my luck that all my clothes were either in my room or getting washed and all I had to wear were my pajama bottoms, so I was unable to cobble together my jury-rigged beekeeper's suit for about a half hour, after which I cautiously entered my room to discover that he had indeed flown away. Although, even as I am writing this I can't be a hundred percent sure that he isn't hiding somewhere in my room, biding his time...
And this was a beast mother****ing hornet. At one point while watching from a crack in the door I saw him land on a window, so I seized the initiative and charged forward, swatter held aloft, and struck once, twice, and yet even with two nearly direct hits the hornet was unscathed. I then took the only prudent course of action and made like King Arthur against the Killer Rabbit.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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