books for the year and fruitfly death.

[derien]

Couple of things I've meant to mention -

Book #43, I think? I finished Good Omens for about the sixth time. Sometime last week, I think. I think it ended the same way this time. :) (Also forced a co-worker to read it and that's been great fun. He adores it and wants it to be made into a movie and insists that Christopher Walken must have some part in it, possibly Hastur. He cast Will Smith for Famine.)

Now I'm just down to the history books which I'm kind of always reading and never finishing - The Raj and A Distant Mirror. I added yet another, actually, as I just got well started into "Daily Life In Victorian England," which I'm really enjoying.

Also, the fruitfly traps suggested by an anonymous poster on Eor's journal have been incredibly effective and the infestation is at an end! You print the pattern for the cone here, and bait it with apple cider vinegar with a few drops of dish detergent in it. The dish detergent was the key ingredient - before we added that they were inside the glass but still alive and sometimes climbing out. Now they are dead, sunk in the solution which has no surface tension. I feel so bloodthirsty and evil.

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[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't feel evil, and I'm really soppy about bugs. I felt so guilty for killing snails in my garden last year, even though they were eating everything. I'm going to leave them alone this this summer. But when they cross the line and invade your kitchen then they must be stopped! And it's cool that you found a solution that doesn't involve spraying poison about the place. And it's sciency.