The Last Whiskey Bar

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Bad winter this year.  It's been freezing at night, and maybe 60F during the day, and dry as fuck.  You walk outside without chapstick, you no longer have lips, just bleeding gums.

[LMNO]

Other than having a bucket of chapstick by my side, that weather sounds lovely.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Pretty windy out here. Its damn near impossible to be outside longer than five minutes without suddenly tearing up. Coldwise its about normal though.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Bad winter this year.  It's been freezing at night, and maybe 60F during the day, and dry as fuck.  You walk outside without chapstick, you no longer have lips, just bleeding gums.

We're getting freezing nights up here too (less common these days than you might think). Despite the issues this causes, I am pleased by this.

Freezes are the only thing standing between the Swamp Yankees and all of our excess nature. Year 2012 was absolutely crawling with ticks, because there wasn't enough of a freeze last winter to kill them off.

I'm beginning to suspect that global warming may be a gigantic plot by the oil giants of warmer climes to get rid of us heathen Northerners.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Other than having a bucket of chapstick by my side, that weather sounds lovely.

It isn't.  The sun is still there, brutalizing you like Chris Brown, only it's not hot.  Just insanely bright, and it rides on your shoulders like a sandbag.  On the plus side, no snakes, spiders, or scorpions...On the negative side, the bears are aggressive as fuck, the coyotes are into everything, and the javalinas are even MORE easily annoyed.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Also, the junkies scream louder when it's cold.  That gets annoying, when you have to walk downtown.

[trippinprincezz13]

We're getting freezing nights up here too (less common these days than you might think). Despite the issues this causes, I am pleased by this.

Freezes are the only thing standing between the Swamp Yankees and all of our excess nature. Year 2012 was absolutely crawling with ticks, because there wasn't enough of a freeze last winter to kill them off.

As much as the cold makes me want to hermit away inside the house for the next 3 months or so, I do appreciate it's tick killing abilities. The bugs as a whole were worse this year but I couldn't step five feet into the woods without multiple tick sightings (though I think I may have been luckily enough not to be bit by one this year - maybe 1) and 100 mosquito bites (unfortunately they like to bite me, even when everyone else is standing around saying "what mosquitos?")

So as much as I hate to say it, I'd like it to get at least a little cold this winter.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

We're getting freezing nights up here too (less common these days than you might think). Despite the issues this causes, I am pleased by this.

Freezes are the only thing standing between the Swamp Yankees and all of our excess nature. Year 2012 was absolutely crawling with ticks, because there wasn't enough of a freeze last winter to kill them off.

As much as the cold makes me want to hermit away inside the house for the next 3 months or so, I do appreciate it's tick killing abilities. The bugs as a whole were worse this year but I couldn't step five feet into the woods without multiple tick sightings (though I think I may have been luckily enough not to be bit by one this year - maybe 1) and 100 mosquito bites (unfortunately they like to bite me, even when everyone else is standing around saying "what mosquitos?")

So as much as I hate to say it, I'd like it to get at least a little cold this winter.

Tucson is crawling with ticks.  ECH finally mentioned the DI earth trick, which I employed immediately in the back yard.  By the next day, I was sweeping up thousands of the little bastards, cackling like Adolf Eichmann.  I had tried everything, to no effect...But a quick trip to the hardware store cured the problem, and wiped out every scorpion on the property, too.

Mosquitos aren't - or weren't - a Tucson problem, until the golf courses came along.  Then they became an occasional nuisance.  After the Big Whoops back in 2008, though, so many people were foreclosed on that there are literally HUNDREDS of untended swimming pools, all of which are now basically mosquito factories.  The only upside is that mosquitos can only come out at night here, as the sun destroys their wings.

But back to this cold...It's raw as fuck, and every time you bump into something, you lose 3 inches of skin.  It's not even THAT cold...It's that DRY.  Thing is, it RAINED last night.  No difference.  The ground swallowed the water up, belched, and things went right back to miserable.

[Suu]

Navyguy bought my parents new fence posts for Christmas since half of their backyard fence got dry rot this year and collapsed (so did the picnic table on Christmas Eve, my brother went through the seat. HILARIOUS!)

Well, despite my warnings, his experience with Florida sand has been less than thrilling. He has the system down now after my mom showed him how to saturate it, so after spending the majority of yesterday installing 6 posts, he just did 2 in an hour this morning. Fortunately it's been relatively cool, so there's no snakes or spiders or fire ants attacking.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

First World Problem :

Missed a package delivery AGAIN. Got up early and everything but the mail lady changed her route and came four hours earlier than normal. @#@%@$%#$%#$^#^$%645^#$%$%@#$#

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Supervisor revealed to me that theres plenty of work for quite a while. This is a good thing. More tedium but more hours for indeterminate amount of time.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also villager sent me a link to a house on the market. She described it as "its like the cheesecake factory paris hilton an old chinese lady and dracula all lived there and had a say in the decor"

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I'm used to random muscle twitches and nerve twinges galore. But what is it when random veins and/or arteries bulge and pulse in no particular rhythm for a few seconds and then subside? That's a new one.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Fucking grain bugs - found some in my flour and a few other things maybe 5 months ago. Threw out open shit - douched the kitchen and cabinets. Sprayed down enough stuff to kill every living thing in the house. And everything was fine for a bit. One or 2 dead ones that I assumed was as a result of the spray.

Fast forward to the weekend before Christmas and they're back again - except somehow even more than before. On the counter, on the pizza stone on the microwave. behind the microwave. Tore apart the cabinets again since exterminator was coming this morning and only found them inside one almost empty container of stuffing and a SEALED bag of almonds. Into the trash went anything open and I'm going to super double check everything before I put it back later. Exterminator put down some goop made for cockroaches that apparently works on these things too and pretty much told me to clean everything and toss anything that's been sitting a while (I know they can only do so much). Of course what I hear is that, despite my best efforts is "your house is gross, this is your fault".

Four years doing the same thing, cleaning the same way, and it's just these past 6 months I've noticed anything. And the way the apartments are set up, for all I know these have made their way here from someone else's gross pantry, in which case there's nothing I can do. So now all I can think about is bugs and my post-holiday relaxation weekend will instead be spent obsessively cleaning the kitchen (pull the fridge out to clean - yea, like that's happening by myself, maybe someone will be around) and probably the rest of the house. And it probably still won't be enough.

I mean, I know they don't do much and it's not like there's thousands of them (that I can see) but for all my obsessiveness about cleaning that's one big smack of failure right there

They come from the store sometimes. Only solution is to get rid of EVERYTHING they could live in, and store the rest in the freezer for a month. I hate the fuckers. It's got nothing to do with cleanliness though.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So hey guys, it turns out that Facebook Discordians are INCREDIBLY easy to fuck with. I know that Howl has known that for a long time, but I'm finally trying it and they're getting all catty on me.