So are you grossed out yet? My skin is still crawling. Okay, here's the deal. I'm sure most of you have already read the previous post where I blogged about our ant problem. When I mentioned I have seen them crawling across my desk I had NO IDEA they were building a nest inside my airport base station (wireless internet hub). Neither did our computer guru, Adam...
Originally Adam came over to fix a booboo I did the other day while "cleaning" up my computer desktop. I moved some things into a new folder I created called "technical stuff," (all the stuff that runs the computer, like the applications etc.) Long story short, I confused the computer so it could no longer find anything and thus nothing worked. We called Adam to reverse the damage caused by yours truly and when he picked up the airport he got a shocker. We both jumped out of our skin as ants went crawling everywhere. You see him in the photo checking to see if the ants got into his bag. They did. They got everywhere. Hundreds of them...all over my desk. See Dan. See Dan vacuum up ants. (FYI Adam, It's now 8:50 pm and I am still on ant patrol with the vacuum on standby while I blog).
6 comments:
Fun with bugs!
I think I got the queen ant... so hopefully no more ants in the office.
Absolutely amazing sight... what you can't see in the picture is how frantically they were swarming.
Oh Alyssa...
I am soooo sorry. :-(
Those darn ants!!!
sweetktea
It gets better. See the gold candle holder right by the keyboard? Well, I was burining one of the candles you gave me (peppermint, I think) and in the chaos of vacuuming up the ants, the pink organza bag the candle came in got tossed and landed right on the candle, melted a nice hole in the bag. It was crazy.
Dan, as long as the outside ants know where the auxiliary ant nest is, they will continue to send in replacements to rebuild the nest. See the link on Alyssa's first ant-blog. It isn't a matter of getting rid of the ants but getting rid of the path that got them there in the first place. URGH!!!!
That is the FIRST time and hopefully last time I ever have to solve this type of computer bug problem. Every time I come over, you guys come up with something very entertaining for me to fix. I can't imagine what it will be next time. Please nothing thermonuclear and no more toilet problems. :-)
Adam
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