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Saturday, August 21, 2004
Human 1 - Arachnid 0
Bwaa haa haa… no stinking spider can stop me from enjoying a movie.
Confused? Ok here’s the story.
After chatting with my girlfriend who’s in New York City for an internship I decided to head down and watch 50 First Dates. Long distance relationships are tough. It’s only been about 2 weeks since she left but already I miss not being able to be with her.
Anyhoo, I came down and fired up the TV. Soon as I did I noticed a spider on the screen. It’s not the first time a bug has been on the screen so I got up to brush it onto the floor and smash it. However, I couldn’t do it because the little arachnid was on the inside of the projection screen. Spiders like the insides of projection TVs because they’re warm and nice and open. You really do need to have a repairman come out every once in a while to open up the tv and clean the screen, mirrors, lens, etc since they’ll get dirty from dust and insects/bugs. Back to the story… the stupid spider wouldn’t go away. I would tap on the screen, flip the channels, etc but he would just scurry around the screen mocking me.
Not to be beaten by a stinking bug I broke out my computer toolkit and proceeded to remove the projection screen. After getting the screen open I was able to chase the spider into a corner and end his little games.
It took a good hour to get the screen off and kill the spider but it was worth it.
So now you know why I’m laughing. I’m just a tad bit on the crazy side but I don’t like to give up or admit defeat. . It’s now 2am and I’m just finishing the movie and posting this. I better get off to bed so I can get up early and go for my morning bike ride. I’m up to 25 miles now!
we have problems with our lights too. Those stupid bugs that look like lady-bugs but aren’t really and smell foul as hell when you kill them.
They get inside the house and then fly into every light fixture in the house and just pile up. You hear them boucing around for about 2 days before they die.
We used to constantly remove the fixtures to sweep them up but now we just leave them and clean them out once a week.
on 08/23/2004 at 10:36 AM
They’re called asian beetles. Annoying little buggers.
Hehehe, that’s friggin’ hilarious. I’ve had similar experiences, but not with tv’s—with our flourescent lights in our basement ceiling. There will be bugs up there all the time buzzing around and we’ll have to take the light panel down and scrouge around up in the ceiling killing all the little mofo’s.