saffiter | Did you know...

... it's possible for ants to nest in the monitor of your laptop?

No?

Well, they can as I discovered today. I have ants nesting in my laptop.

Let me re-iteratie. I have ants nesting in the monitor of my laptop. I can see them running across the glass of the built in webcam with eggs! How in the bloody hell did they get in there?!

Turned my laptop on today and suddenly I had ants everywhere! I spent a while trying to kill them all with a tissue then got desperate/pissed off and pulled out the vacuum cleaner. Threw that on low level suck and for the next couple of hours gleefully sucked up any ant that I saw.

Didn't get them all out though. *pouts*. My laptop is currently sitting out on the verandah with ant baits placed all around it in the hopes that it'll kill them all.

Thankfully it's not Precious, so I still have a laptop. I also transferred all the important info from the laptop harddrive to my external harddrive. I've connected all of that to Precious.

In other news the Starlings have arrived and the lorikeets are as psychotic as ever. For the non-Aussies/Far-North-Queenslanders on my list let me explain.

Lorikeets are beautiful birds but are mildly... okay, a lot crazy. I had one fly within a couple of centimetres of my ear as it was flying towards a nearby tree. One blew a literal part in Mum's hair as she was walking down the road. I saw one Japanese tourist go back-pedalling with this girly-scream (very similar to the one Sam does when confronted with Alice in Revenge of the Fallen) as this Lorikeet came out of seemingly nowhere and flew past his ear (his own silly fault for going close to a tree with lots of the noisy little buggers in it). He then drags his son away from the tree with this horrified look on his face. (Seriously, he had this "OMG, the birds are going to EAT ME!!!!!! look. Call me evil, but I love the looks on the tourists faces when confronted with the...er...eccentricities wildlife here. One of these days I need to sit down with a video camera and record some of this).

Next, the Starlings. Also known as the 'Teenagers' of teh Far North bird life. These things are insane. They fly really fast in massive flocks, I mean near super-sonic speeds, and come right at you splitting apart at the last minute (and I mean the last minute) to go around the poor unsuspecting person/pole/bus/car/whatever-happens-to-be-in-their-way.

They usually miss you by centimetres.

Now, locals will flinch slightly but otherwise not really react (we're used to it). Tourists curl up into these little shrieking, swearing balls. It's funny to watch. The horrified O.o o.O O.O is just... classic!

(and maybe I'm just a little bit evil).

I was down in Lake Street today watching all of this happen. Mum and Dad had gone out and then called me about 3pm saying "We're going out for dinner. Get some clothes on, we'll swing by and pick you up". Me, I wasn't complaining.

We ended up with fish and chips and sat on the Esplanade looking at the water *cough*mud-flats*cough* (getting dirty looks from all the people going past jogging/exercising. I just grinned at them and put another chip in my mouth). We headed down to the city centre for gelati (which is why we were on Lake street. Dad parked the car there). I got some pictures of the lorikeets in the trees with the camera in my phone. I'll put them up at some point in the near-ish future.

I <3 my city