Mike Nicholson

This weekend I discovered that I have new pets... about 10,000 of them. All of a sudden, a small hole opened in my windowsill and dozens of red floppy primitive insects crawled out and tried to fly around. They were quickly destroyed by the might of a vacuum cleaner, and their holes were plugged with wall patching compound, duct tape, and raid spray. Even after this, more termites managed to crawl out, although to their immediate death from the nerve toxin that they had just crawled through. To give you an idea of what this looked like, here is a picture I found on Google of a swarm like mine.

My apartment wall has a very mature colony of Drywood Termites. These are especially scary because they like to munch on furniture! I just purchased some very low quality wooden furniture from Ikea that I hope they are not setting up a new home in. I’d hate to have to destroy it.

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Bowling

Bumpers.

Sick kegbot

Crazy angry driver

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On a plane from stl to sfo. I spent a total of fifty hours in st louis after just under seventy in Portland.

While I was gone, I trained on a new product, I ate three lobsters, I braved the sweltering heat of st louis, flew on three different airlines, and drank a score of beers.

I once again hung with Mike Flavin, my oldest friend and now my business partner. We exchanged more stories of the past that never seem to become old and planned new adventures into the distant future.

It was a fun trip. We'll see how many times I pull this off before I work at a new job which will likely require much less traveling.

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Boston to st louis via midway on ata and southwest.

One ticket, three frequent flyer numbers.

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I've had a seat break, a window pop off in flight, and a crew reach the end of their work day, but this is a first.

There is a plane squatting at my jetway! It's going to take them half of an hour to move it to boot. How did it get to my gate? Why did they dock to it? Why is it so slow? Why can't they bring those stairs to bring us out?

It doesn't really bother me, though, travel became a fun, relaxing thing for me when I took this job.

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I miss my vacation.

I suppose that will be the theme of my (and everyone's) career.

Only ten months left before the next one :)

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I'm a' headin' east again.

Off to Portland Maine for training on something I already know :). At least I get a free weekend layover in Stl. Ill be able to say hi to family and friends again.

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