A Typical Tuesday...

Arriving home after work, the TV managed to stay off for almost four hours, a colony of traveller ants took over the front bush, the water went dry, and I painted a mural on my wall (hope the don't care...)

First, the ants. They are the large, bighting black ones and thousands of them were crawling accross our front steps, up the bush and into the tile roof. So many of them were there that as they clambered to get to the top, a number of them were pushed off and rained down back to the bottom of the bush where they dutifully tried again. Hours later they seemed to get to their goal; small, opaque eggs of some unknown variety. Termites? By morning they were gone, off to invade some other nest in some other part of the world.

Tuesday was also the third time we had no water. It's never dire, but it is a mild inconveience and makes you appreciate the world a little more when you do have it. The water on campus is purified, perhaps not to our drinking standards, but fine for washing dishes and brushing teeth. When the water went on it only took an hour for the power to go off. It went off twice during the night, resulting in two trips to reset the house alarm and the morning alarm clocks. It's fine, but it doesn't make for good sleep. The power goes off a lot here, but usually at night.


So for my entertainment, I painted a Matisse on my wall. It doesn't match my new Lenca vase, but it will work.