Happy 250th!!!! Plus, ants.

This entry is this blog's 250th official entry!!!! Hurray!!! Thank you for your readership and support.

Now that the excitement of that milestone has come and past, I move on to the next issue of concern (IOC). That concern is focused on a small bandit group of ants currently housing themselves in the wall next to the washing machine. This location also shares a wall with guess who's bedroom.

The ants were first discovered when I went into the bathroom. My first duty when I enter the apt. bathroom is to sweep the floor. My roommates are hairy and this is something I do anywhere from 1-3 times per day. While sweeping, I picked up one ant. Odd, I thought, because ants are never present at 3110 Grove St.

I opened the door of the bathroom and noticed a mass of ant activity around the base of the washing machine. Blast, I thought, they must have come in from the rain yesterday. Ants do that, I guess.

I would not let these little bastards prevail, so I armed myself with a spray bottle full of my secret anti-ant formula: 50% bleach, 50% water. This solution can knock out ants in a matter of seconds, plus it helps clean the surrounding environs. So much for Raid.

Status: The solution has worked. There are currently about 30 dead ants on the floor, some of them still wiggling their poor, chemically-attacked legs in vain. They will soon die. I've sprayed the whole area in there with Anti-Ant and I hope that from the remaining survivors they will send a scout to the nest to report undesirable ant living conditions in apt. 3C.