When I googled earwigs, the site actually talked about the odor they emit. (Though it fell short of likening it to bandaids.)
aauuughhh!
20 more long agonizing minutes until quitting time
I’m cutting out now - see y’all later!
The only good earwig is a dead earwig. I say this because I keep cushions on the porch swing. I have learned to shake them out prior to [del]crushing them with my body as I crash into a summer torpor[/del] using them, since said earwigs will crawl out ON MY LEGS OR WORSE, MY SHOULDERS AND HAIR, thereby squiking the hell out of me. Relaxation should not be stressful.
Off to make dinner. What? I’m hungry, NOW.
Have to pick the cat up soon. He peed all over me – :mad: – just prior to going to the vet for the urine check, so they had to hold him. Since he is officially on The List for me, this was no hardship.
Well, the critters were alive and happy and I didn’t see any random piles of hork on the carpets, so you’re safe. Plus the garage door opener was here and not in your car, so yay! 
I think Brandy misses you because I won’t pet her constantly.
Still getting caught up - we had a 90-ish minute power outage, but we’re back in business. I’ve got laundry going and eventually, I’ll get out of these icky clothes and have a refreshing shower. I think I’ll be doing a vacation thread rather than adding to this one.
Off to the laundry room now…
Most of the sites I saw called the odor “foul” or “disagreeable.” I didn’t think it was at all foul – not stinkbug foul by any means. It was quite mild and, as I said, vaguely like band-aids. Maybe there are other species that smell worse. Anyway, there are far worse bugs than earwigs. Except in Australia. Apparently the species that grow down under get as big as 85cm over there. :eek:
Silverfish are kinda weird and irritating but they don’t freak me out. House centipedes and common household spiders do, though. Especially the former. Great Og’s dingleberries, but those things are heinously creepy. It’s a pity too, because they eat other bugs. There’s another one too that looks like a house centipede, but it’s much larger, tan in colour, and soft-bodied. I’m sure it’s another type of centipede, but I don’t know which species. That creeps me out even more. Which is odd, because normal centipedes (the garden variety) don’t.
Home, I collapsed on the bed for a bit, now am making dinner. Lucretia barks, but she grew up in a multi-lingual household.
Dotty,You ate FCM’s cookies?
Welcome back Mooommmmm!
Mork, Re: :dubious: :eek: 
. The beach or the night of mild doom?
I didn’t pet her constantly. I don’t know how much you pet her, but after a day she decided I was worthy of the privilege of petting her every once in a while. This morning she was very insistent. I grew up being trained in cat servitude, so I found her highly entertaining. Yesterday afternoon she was the one who yelled at me that it was time for FOOD! And she has a truly amazing purr.
Any random piles would have appeared after I left. I know there weren’t any at that point!
But…um…you better check the mailbox… :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:
I sorta forgot. I’m not very good at remembering my own mail, and without the dogs going off when it arrived…oops…BAD HOUSESITTER…I’m sorry!
Mom! pounce
NoNoNo! Miss Brandy gets Pounce, Moooommmmm get chocolate.
bobbio and rosie, I enjoyed the sick jokes.
FCM, welcome back!
whiterabbit, how cool of you to housesit!
Mork, yeah, I’ve smelled that earwig smell and also think it smells vaguely of band-aids. I bag all my bugs. I have a little vacuum gun that I pick up my bugs with still alive, then I transfer them into a plastic baggie. The intent is to take them out later, but most of the time, they’re dead by the time I get them outside. Lately, though, I haven’t wanted to take out the spiders because they’re just too many of them and they seem to be multiplying too fast. Spiders can live a very long time in a plastic bag with no air. . . . sometimes several days. That’s the bug report.
I was just watching the Nova on black holes. Fascinating stuff. They say that if you get sucked into a black hole, you’d end up squeezed through like toothpaste through the opening of the tube. And one of the scientists said he’d like to die like that. Some scientists are weird.
You who speak of sniffing and bagging bugs shall not call scientists weird that want to see the Toothpaste Effect firsthand.
Just sayin’, ya know?
Wow…extreme chattiness, here.
Yeah, Mork, I had a kind of “duh” moment when I read that article. I knew about minstrel shows, kind of vaguely, but didn’t know details and had no idea that food had been used in them. Figured it was something we should all know about.
And here I thought we finally had LOUNE all trained and stuff. McUne, can you help us out here? He’s pouncing again.
Earwigs. Yuck.
Welcome back, Mommmmmmm!!!
Sick, sick jokes.
Tired. Longish day. Watching The Holiday (half-watched it last night) and planning to get to bed early.
Tomorrow’s Friday!!! Yay!!!
GT
No…no pouncing?
Bah.
Be glad I haven’t peed on the carpet…recently.
I don’t think them wanting to “see” the effect firsthand is weird. I think them wanting to “experience” the effect firsthand is weird. Me, I’d throw someone else in. That would satisfy my curiosity enough.
See, I bag the bugs, not eat them.
LOUNE, you’re like Tigger. . . except Tigger doesn’t pee on the carpet. Heh. Everyone is a Disney character.
Ha! So…I’m expected to “read” things before I comment?
:: sheepishly ambles off to find my dentures and bifocals ::
Tigger does so pee on the carpet. You’ve just never seen it.
As we got to the neighborhood, I saw the mail truck, so I checked anyway. No biggie - apart from some sailing magazines, there were only 2 real pieces of mail - the rest was crap or stuff that got recycled.
Laundry is done for today and I’m about to shower and hit the sheets. I finally worked my way thru this thread - doggone, it people, hold it down a bit!! Sheesh!
Welcome to all youse n00bs! Make sure you sign the chore assignment list, or chores will be assigned at random. And I *don’t * appreciate that certain of you veteran Cool Kids absconded with my chocolate love offerings! Harrumph, I say!
Anyway, hugs, smoochies, and all appropriate reactions to your numerous comments. With luck, I’ll have a vacation thread up some time tomorrow. But for now, I hear my great big king size bed beckoning, and I don’t need a stool to climb up into it. And the air conditioning works. And the bathroom is attached, not in a building down the dock… Ah, there’s no place like home!
Yes. I hate them. Hatehatehatehate. One of my co-workers said that they melt gradually if you spray air freshener on them. He said Lysol. I’m going to have to try it.
Hatehatehatehate.
Aww. I like when he pounces. 
Back from dance class! Boy, that was funner than ever!