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[nekosensei]

* I shouldn't kill spiders in my house, but I do because I am terrified of them. If they're outside, I have no problems. If I find them inside though? SPLAT they go! The same goes for centipedes. If I catch them crawling on a wall, they end up on the bottom of my shoe in no time flat. I hate centipedes the most of all, and I don't even want to get close enough to them to catch them with a wadded up piece of tissue or toilet paper!!! So...under the shoe they go.

Any critter with more than six legs gives me the creeps, and the more legs they have, the worse I hate them.

* Dan wasn't too happy with me earlier this afternoon. I stretched while reading a book and knocked over a lamp. The lamp itself is fine, but the bulb inside it broke. Worse, I didn't realize that the bulb contained mercury until after I picked up the broken pieces with my bare hands. So...if I start acting a little nutty, you'll know why. (Me being nutty is a little par for the course, so in reality, nothing will really change much).

Oh...I also have to replace a cat bed and some cat toys because the lamp fell on them. I could have probably gotten away with cleaning the cat bed really well, but I didn't want to take any chances. Besides, Cosette already has random kidney issues. The last thing we need is for her to come down with any more problems.

* Weeded and turned over my vegetable garden today. I'm planning on growing eggplant, pepper, and squash so I probably won't plant anything until May. I was thinking about growing tomatoes as well, but now I'm not so sure. According to the farmer's almanac, it's supposed to be rainy and cool again this summer. Last year, my tomato plants didn't do so well because it didn't get hot enough.

* After I cleared my veggie garden, I rested for a bit and then started working on weeding and clearing one of my flower beds. I still have to work on the bed next to the garage though, but I think I'll leave that until tomorrow. I also want to do some weeding in the way back. As for big projects, I'd like to put some more cedar chips out in the beds out front and in the way back. I think I'll leave that for when I have a little bit more time, probably in late May. I'm also going to need to borrow a wheelbarrow and a bigger shovel. Lastly, I'd also like to buy a Japanese maple for that one spot I've been meaning to fill for ages. I take it that I should probably wait until May to plant a tree though, huh?

* Man Receives Ticket While Walking From Car To Parking Meter -- Ninja police officer! (Swiped from popfiend)

* Watched Episode 2 of Doctor Who with doomsey and judygs.

doomsey made a remark that Matt Smith was trying to be David Tennant's version of the Doctor too much. What do you guys think? Also, isn't the Doctor supposed to be different in each incarnation?

Comments

[ceitnicangus.livejournal.com]

The parking thing happened to me to... The parking officer saw me get out of my car in almost a foot of snow, walk to the pay meter (which was not right near the car) and then when I walked back to put the sticker on it, she hands me a ticket -- saying that my bumper was near the do not park. I asked her why she didn't flag me down and tell me -- she told me she had a quota... and she didn't want to go walking to far, She was proud of the fact that she had gotten 5 other cars for the same thing. Nice..

Matt Smith did in the first episode do Ten but he starting to have a different personality all of is own. So far-- So good.

[lark_ascends]

Eek on the spiders and the mercury...

[bibliofilen.livejournal.com]

But - centipedes are just baby butterflies!

That mercury thing is scary. I think they have removed it from every thing here nowadays even though I still have it in the thermometer my mother passed on to me. Probably at least thirty years old or so by now.

[doomsey.livejournal.com]

Compact florescent lights -- and, I should add, florescent lights in general -- all have a bit of mercury in them. It's not a whole lot, but you need it - it's what generates the UV light that the phosphors convert to visible light. You can make a florescent light without mercury, but they're called neon lights and end up coming in all sorts of funky colors that are a lot less useful for room lighting!

[bibliofilen.livejournal.com]

You were right! The new low-energy bulbs are a kind of flourescents and contain mercury. Moreover, a Swiss study has just declared that you shouldn't have them within a 30cm radius of your head..

I guess I should buy LED bulbs but they are too expensive for me right now. In case you didn't know, old fashioned bulbs are being phased out in the EU because of the environment.