Yay! Spring break begins!
I had all my exams this week and as much as I would like to make up for a few hours of lost sleep, I am currently afraid of sitting or sleeping on any bed, futon or chair in my house except for my desk chair. Yes, we got a bad bedbug infestation sometime early last week. Its horrible and every time we get bedbugs I think of novel ways I could circumvent it from happening again. Last time I threw away my mattress, which I loved so much, and vowed never to get a mattress (also partly because I realized that most new mattresses cost an arm and a leg for a student's budget). So feeling quite happy about sleeping on a couple sleeping bags and a comforter I thought I wouldn't encounter the vile creatures ever again. Now that it has happened again I am contemplating buying a hammock and suspending it inside the house (I don't know how). There's some other plans like putting planks across two chairs. Of course these hare brained schemes are my version of counting sheep.
Of course I searched the internets. I found a number of sites claiming 'miracle', cost-effective methods to 'permanently get rid of bed bugs, fleas, etc.'. However these cost effective methods always involve buying an e-book or subscription or one lady who was an 'eco-mentalist' (as Jeremy Clarkson calls them) and hence wanted to use only 'natural' methods to eliminate the pests. Its exasperating. The only consolation I got from my search was that "remember, the bed bug infestation isn't your fault. You just picked them up from somewhere...blah blah blah".
Alright enough about bed bugses, Now that Spring break is here I am planning a road trip. Feels like ages since I've hit the Interstate and driven for hours in my car. Last couple road trips I made, one to Las Vegas and one to San Diego were in someone else's car with that particular someone else driving most of the time. So I am really excited about this one. I really do love driving in the US, more particularly Arizona. As much as I would love to ride a motorrad down the Pacific Coast Highway in LA, the rest of LA is pretty crowded compared to AZ. I hate the roads in Las Vegas. Not because of the crowd (I mean if you expect Vegas to have open roads, you must be living in the Matrix or rather the matrix simulator that Morpheus uses at the start to train Neo). Anyways the reason I hate Vegas roads are because they dont have lines marking lanes. They have stupid bumpy plastic reflectors. The kind they put ON painted lines to reflect light but in Vegas there's no lines. I don't understand their logic. It the the city of freakin' lights (well officially, its supposed to be Paris or something but you get my point)! You think that tiny bump is gonna be visible when you have a billion blinking lights? I always end up driving between lanes or almost going on the wrong side.
Arizona has beautiful open roads and except for the occasional old white guy trying to roll his SUV on you (long story) its generally a pleasure to drive here.
This post is a little stale because it was stuck in "development hell" for a few days. I didnt feel it was ready to be published, but what the hell I am putting it out there. I'll put up another 'fresher' post soon enough.
The_Radioactive
I had all my exams this week and as much as I would like to make up for a few hours of lost sleep, I am currently afraid of sitting or sleeping on any bed, futon or chair in my house except for my desk chair. Yes, we got a bad bedbug infestation sometime early last week. Its horrible and every time we get bedbugs I think of novel ways I could circumvent it from happening again. Last time I threw away my mattress, which I loved so much, and vowed never to get a mattress (also partly because I realized that most new mattresses cost an arm and a leg for a student's budget). So feeling quite happy about sleeping on a couple sleeping bags and a comforter I thought I wouldn't encounter the vile creatures ever again. Now that it has happened again I am contemplating buying a hammock and suspending it inside the house (I don't know how). There's some other plans like putting planks across two chairs. Of course these hare brained schemes are my version of counting sheep.
Of course I searched the internets. I found a number of sites claiming 'miracle', cost-effective methods to 'permanently get rid of bed bugs, fleas, etc.'. However these cost effective methods always involve buying an e-book or subscription or one lady who was an 'eco-mentalist' (as Jeremy Clarkson calls them) and hence wanted to use only 'natural' methods to eliminate the pests. Its exasperating. The only consolation I got from my search was that "remember, the bed bug infestation isn't your fault. You just picked them up from somewhere...blah blah blah".
Alright enough about bed bugses, Now that Spring break is here I am planning a road trip. Feels like ages since I've hit the Interstate and driven for hours in my car. Last couple road trips I made, one to Las Vegas and one to San Diego were in someone else's car with that particular someone else driving most of the time. So I am really excited about this one. I really do love driving in the US, more particularly Arizona. As much as I would love to ride a motorrad down the Pacific Coast Highway in LA, the rest of LA is pretty crowded compared to AZ. I hate the roads in Las Vegas. Not because of the crowd (I mean if you expect Vegas to have open roads, you must be living in the Matrix or rather the matrix simulator that Morpheus uses at the start to train Neo). Anyways the reason I hate Vegas roads are because they dont have lines marking lanes. They have stupid bumpy plastic reflectors. The kind they put ON painted lines to reflect light but in Vegas there's no lines. I don't understand their logic. It the the city of freakin' lights (well officially, its supposed to be Paris or something but you get my point)! You think that tiny bump is gonna be visible when you have a billion blinking lights? I always end up driving between lanes or almost going on the wrong side.
Arizona has beautiful open roads and except for the occasional old white guy trying to roll his SUV on you (long story) its generally a pleasure to drive here.
This post is a little stale because it was stuck in "development hell" for a few days. I didnt feel it was ready to be published, but what the hell I am putting it out there. I'll put up another 'fresher' post soon enough.
The_Radioactive
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