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were's the RC cola!!!

WOW talk about a down home, old school pic!!! :yum:

Well, I voted for tasty, but I would have preferred "crunchy." Nothing like a nice crunchy walk on a cicada-riddled trail!

Let me get this straight, you work in a mental hospital. Are you trying out for the Nurse Ratched award?:eek:

Yes, I have keys and shoelaces.

My coworkers already fear me, despite my having assured several of them, "well, you're on the list, but you're after 'reload.'"

By doing things like this I keep them amused and off guard. I may need that one of these days.

Their holes have appeared. Won't be long now.

How many ex coworkers do you now how under lock and key?

Strangely enough, relatively few. I've only seen one actual staff member (a college summer intern) admitted to our hospital ... oh wait, and there was someone in administration that we had to quietly send to alcohol rehab about 9 years ago. We tend to be relatively resilient.

Our problems tend to center more around things like the psych tech who was murdered by his crazy girlfriend two years ago yesterday, IIRC. That was right after my best friend's suicide (also a staff member), so we were a bit emotionally numb for a while. 2002 was a particularly bad year ... two deaths from natural causes, one suicide, one murder, and one part time nurse who drank herself to death. We're actually starting another round of this ... staff member died in her sleep last week, just before that the 13 y.o. son of one of our folks hung himself, and a former employee's son died of a herion overdose.

I just saw my first early risers. I saw about 10 of them while walking to my car this morning.

For heaven's sake will somebody tell me what these things are? I just assumed you were talking about crickets or grasshoppers but you make it sound like the return of the bodysnatchers or summat.

And I thought we had problems with daddy-long-legs....

Check out the first link on the first post.

These are the oldest insects in the world (IIRC). They were born 17 years ago, and are about to swarm again.

These guys are about as harmless as daddy-log-legs, but they are huge (2" long, .5" wide), noisy, and there are going to be millions of 'em.

Here's a telephone pole up the street from my parents' house.

And here's a closeup of the base of the pole.

Point of order, I think you mean Billions.:)

We've got holes around the tree and the bushes in front of our building.

I wonder if they'll affect Plastic Forks, which is June 26.

I meant in my neighborhood! Yeah... that's the ticket!