Modern, Cool Nerd
65 % Nerd, 56% Geek, 39% Dork

For The Record:A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd. Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)! Congratulations!

Whoops, that's a WASP.

Well, apparently that bee's nest that we destroyed wasn't a nest of bees but of wasps. As CM said, "I guess upon further research by the crack team here, we weredealing with wasps. Yikes.".

I'm just very glad they are gone - and not one person (us or any guests) got stung!

So, calling everyone, our place for bbq anytime now!

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This would officially be the longest day I have worked in a long, long time. Left at 7:05 this morning. Just got home at 10:40.
grrr argh

I want tomorrow off. Yeah, right. Compared to the rest of the folks I work with, I'm a wuss. (and I don't feel bad about that either)

g'night

This is bee's nest CM and I destroyed. Feel rather bad to do it, but I'm glad I had the strength to do it myself. Amazing architecture in a bee's nest 

He's a WHAT???

40 year old virgin - one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time!! Belly-laugh-for-2-hours funny... guy-next-to-you-giggles-and-snorts-(loudly)-and-you-don't-mind funny!

Everyone must see this movie!!!

'kay. Bed now.

Bye Bye Bees

Tonight CompuMonkey (my husband and henceforth known as CM) and I did the final kill on the bee hive that is on our patio. Although I am not a fan of killing or destruction, it was nice to finally feel safe going out on our patio.

About a month ago we noticed that bees were flying out of a hole from under an old, large planter box in a corner of our patio. We noticed it the day after we were in an accident, so we were more concerned with our health and our totalled car (thank dog we are fine physically - car not so much).

Up until about a week and half ago we left the hive alone and in that time it really grew. By the time we had the bandwidth to deal with the problem, the hole from under the planter was the bee equivelent of the 401. We hummed and hawed about what we were going to do - we are both wusses when it comes to being stung by insects. We called pest control services and bee collection groups. It was going to cost about $250 to collect the bees, which sounds very humane, but apparently they die anyway because of the shock from being moved. And living BC that was the only option to us as we were told it is illegal to kill certain types of bees in BC.

To make a long story short, we made our second assault tonight with a second can of pesticide and I think they are almost all dead. At least their hive is now exposed too, so those who are still alive will likely move on. I have to admit that looking close up at the hive is pretty cool. Maybe tomorrow I'll try to take a picture and post it.

Sorry bees, but I am not so tolerant of bugs that will harm me. Besides my tree that is right beside your former home is dying - and that is supposed to be our Christmas tree this year.

Something to add to my birthday list...
The professor, the banker and the suicide king : inside the richest poker game of all time / by Michael Craig.

Looks like a great suggestion by Wil Wheaton (one of my favourite blogs). http://www.wilwheaton.net

Finding my legs II

Well, I had thought I would keep this quiet for a little while until I figured out if this is something I can actually fit into my life. But that's not going to happen - my husband found the link in my email account today. He offered not to read it - I guess thinking that I needed this space as a private-thinking-place. It's not that at all. I just wanted to "find my legs" before I knew anyone else is reading it (other then the people who may stumble across it on the net-although I still don't think anyone will find it unless I point them to it).

Other thoughts... I'm tired. Not having such a great day. Too much work and not enough sleep. Too much work and not enough me.

Oh well, enough of that. Going out for dinner with two people I have no use for tonight. I know that sounds cold, but every time we get together for dinner with them I go though a period of "why are we seeing these people AGAIN?". Neither of us likes them or finds them interesting. My husband (who I need to think of a pseudonym for) has wanted to stay in touch with them because he is good friends with one of the fellow's good friends. Which sounds noble, except that he rarely talks to the friend they have in common - and the friend they have in common doesn't seem to have much use for the fellow we are going out with tonight. Now keep in mind, I am an outsider looking in - they all met and were friends long before I was in the picture. I am just not good at spending time with people with whom I don't like. I got into the habit when I finished highschool of refusing to spend time with people I don't like. Maybe it is cold-hearted of me but I would prefer to spend time with people I find interesting and whom I truly enjoy spending time with. As it is, I only get to see/talk to my best girlfriend every week or week and a half.

I guess I ultimately chalk it down to the fact that I have an incredibly kindhearted husband, which is something I wouldn't change for the world. Good thing I realize that, even though I sound like a big grump today, hmmm?

finding my legs