A long overdue Post.

Greetings !

I come to you now with a long overdue post. Recently, I've been neglecting my duties as Blogmaster of this blog. I've been channeling my energies elsewhere. Wanna know what could possibly cause me to neglect my precious blog? Read on!

Of Mice And Men
Yes, mice. And Men. For those of you who do not know what a member of the family rodensia looks like, let me illustrate:-

As you can see, this is nothing to laugh about. Having these creatures of death roaming the awnings above one's head surely just will NOT DO! Mom commissioned me to enter the ceilings and exterminate this menace once and for all ( but they always come back...like a bad sequel that just won't DIE!)

I've done a lot of this sorta thing before. To date, I've done everything from trap (yes, trap, followed by execute and dispose of said animals, very messy business) , used all manner of glue trap known to man and used poisoned bait. Every time we killed them, new ones would come back and take their place. A curse on the foul rats (may their tails fall off) and a curse on their astronomically large families! This time however, it was different. Mom had had enough. She rolled out the big guns. Thats right. The Heavy Artillery. She went out and bought industrial strength rat poison.....ooooh yea.......THIS would do the trick for sure. Surprise,surprise, IT WORKED! The bait was irresistible! I thought i smelled a rat a day or 2 after so i went up to investigate, fully expecting on being on corpse removal duty ( don't look at me like that, it has to be done and who else gets to do it but the poor oldest son in the family!). Well, after what seemed like an eternity of searching I found what i was looking for. A tail poking out from between the beams. I readied the gloves to pick the poor bastard up. Then I looked back into the crevice where he was. Wait a minute, I could have sworn the tail looked different. Must've been my imagination. I then proceeded to take out the plastic bag for disposal then i peered back into the hole. ACK! THE FURRY LITTLE BASTARD WAS LOOKING RIGHT AT ME! IT WASN'T DEAD!

Right, I knew it was poisoned. Might as well kill it now and save me the trouble of coming back and getting him later. I took a stick and stabbed it. Unfortunately, the stick was neither sharp nor was it heavy enough. It squeaked and ran into its hole. Oh no, I wasn't going to let you get away that easy. I called downstairs and got some bug spray handed to me. I'll flush it out! So i sprayed till the beam looked like it was caked with icing. Then i realized i had another problem. Apparently roaches had taken up residence in my ceiling as well. Out they came, dead and dying, whole roach families exterminated. Right, back to my rat, he came out too and looked at me, blind as a bat. Poison effect or so i heard.... Supposed to make them come out and NOT die in the ceiling since they'll look for light. So he stood on a beam and was gasping for air. That earned him a few more stabs from me of course. I must've inflicted grevious injury on it but the skin didn't break.... and it RAN! back into its hole. Luck was on its side however, I was out of bug spray. Grudgingly i returned downstairs. I was out of ammo :(.

Later that day mom told me to get rid of the roaches as well, permanently. I had to take a sprayer up there with..you guessed it....industrial grade pesticide and exterminate them. I was also nice enough to buy the odourless variety :). Well, so up i went again and gave it a good spraying. Enough said, it actually worked.

Back to the rat story. The maid started complaining of a horrible stench coming from the ceiling. I already knew who it was (yes the rat, I was expecting him to die sooner or later, you don't get hit like that and live, not if you're a rat, anyway). The little furball had one last surprise for me. I went up to get the corpse. Well, he decided to die on the VERY plank that i had to move to get into the ceiling. That little bastard. Gave me the shock of my life! I almost fell of the ladder. It was like a last "F*** YOU" from beyond the grave. Talk about wanting the last laugh....lol.

Well enough about mice, Petrina, I'm sure that you're pretty grossed out by now. Sorry about that :). Its just one of the things I get asked to do cos no one else will do it. When you have neighbours like mine you'll understand. That house is.....filthy. Its scary.

Oblivion
Azri, if you're reading this, this is THE game for you. I love it and I'm sure you'll love it too! Best game I've played in a long long time. Game of the Year 2006! Joshua, I'm sure you already know what I'm talking about! Petrina, yea....you can just skip this one :).

Oblivion ROCKS! Enough said. I'm not a fan of RPGs but this one is THE RPG to play. With its expansion packs and LOADS of places of explore you'll be kept busy for DAYS! WEEKS EVEN!

Family

Yea, Tim has a soft side. I realise that soon I'll be gone. I've made it a point to spend more time away from my computer and more with my brother, mom and dad. Its going great. Thats where I usually am whenever i can spare the time. My brother loves haunting me nowadays. Fat and naughty he is, but lovable all the same. Anyway, regarding my departure, I'll be leaving at the very end of July. There was a delay at the flight school so I have an extra 2 weeks to burn. Finally, it begins. I wonder what kinda life this is going to be. With the recent fuel price hikes I wonder how the airlines are faring. No one is doing well, as far as I can tell. Economies are on the downturn. Half a million jobs have been lost in the US this year alone and more people are below the poverty line than ever before. I"ll be frank, the outlook this year is grim. I'll just trust God to lead me through and show me the way. I'm gonna do this :).