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What Do You Call A Fly With No Wings?

July 3rd, 2008 Thomasso

Well, I just got a reply on my post from June 29, 2008 called “As the Bugs Bite, I Run Inside,” and it appears that someone has been listening to our cries, whines and harping about the fly problem. The pest control people could be taking care of our little Fly Infestation sooner than I thought–like possibly today.

Here is what the Langley Township have to say on their Town Hall Blog called Langley Politics Dotcom:

The mosquitoes in Fort Langley have been terrible this year. The Township has been spraying (including, I understand from our staff, using a helicopter on parts of McMillan Island, with Kwantlen First Nations permission), but the GVRD has thus far refused to spray on Brae Island or in Derby Reach park.

That is about to change: Township staff told Council today that the GVRD has agreed to a more balanced approach to mosquito treatment that considers the interests of the surrounding community. As a result, they are moving forward with assessing and treating Brae Island as soon as possible.

To help speed the process up further, we have offered the services of our mosquito control contractor, Culex, to get onto Brae as soon as possible (hopefully today).

This has been a terrible year for mosquitoes along the Fraser, but we will continue to do everything we can to make things better.

So it looks like there could some relief in the near future from the all the biting that has been going on from the evil fly. I can’t say that I’ll miss them, but wait—yes, I want to miss them, I never want to see them again!

I know that there are people who oppose the spraying because of the chemicals that are put into the environment. After all this is an issue that I’m sure the GVRD/Metro Vancouver posed with its decision not to spray in the first place. I’m really caught between a rock and hard place on this one. On one hand I hate being bitten alive by the fly, yet on the other hand, I see spraying as concern to the environment. I guess in this case spraying wins the argument for now–until the long term effects start to show up….

[ADDED] Jordan adds: “…that bug bites, and the diseases spread through them, are a public health concern. We spray with the cooperation and consent of the Fraser Health Authority.”

Thanks to Jordan Bateman of the Langley Township Council for the news.

**The answer to the joke in the header is: You call it a “Walk.” becuase it can’t fly any more.

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Ooohh, It’s Friday: Smile!

September 14th, 2007 Thomasso

Yes, yes, yes, it is Friday. I am tired. I never realized how much running around I did this last week until I finally sat down just a few minutes ago and starting thinking about it. But then again, I probably just tricked myself into thinking I was tired, yet really I am just resting from the mad dash around town getting stuff done and out of the way? So much to do now that I’m in classes, my job is picking up pace and preparations for winter are now being made. I just found out that my house insurance had gone up; another reminder that the rate of inflation, the true index, not the phony one issued by the Government of Canada, or the Central Bank, but the cost compared to my income level that I calculate based on my yearly income. Now I know why I am so tiered:$$$$$$$$$?

Anyway, my friend’s webblog is up and running: www.dianeoutloud.ca. So, pay her a visit and say “hi.” She will be typing away on it once she settles in within the next week or so now that she is staying with her family down in the State of Texas for the next few weeks until she returns to Fort Langley, BC. I am looking forward to reading what she has to say. It could very interesting…. Oh, and read her first “post.” It took 14 day to get it up and running! Ya—I kid-you-not: 14 days!

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I was gone for while becuase….

April 10th, 2005 Thomasso

For those of you who were wondering where the heck I took off to, well, I was cram’n for the exams which start on Monday: doing that at the begining of the month and then: in the last couple of days, I have being franticly trying to figure out why I could not log onto my website? I figured out that my normal browser FireFox was not reading PHP any more, well, wores yet, my PHP files, I could still read everyone elses, not this domain! So I’m using a spcial LINUX browser called Epiphany 1.4.4, a Gnome desktop browser that is based on Mozilla. I guess I did something to FireFox that prevents me from using it? Anyway, I’m alive and well, just over worked and sleep deprived becuase of exams and work.

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SPAMMING the Back Track URL: Beware SPAMMERS

February 20th, 2005 Thomasso

Well, the Spammers have not being able to penetrate the blog pre se, but they have resorted to list the Back Track options that most Blog users have so that if someone wished to cite a comment from another Blog, they have a special web address that leaves a excerpt on the author’s Blog and directs you to the cited page. Very clever way of citing those who use your ideas on a Blog. It seems that with all the Anti-Spamming measures in place on various Blog, Spammers have resorted to spamming those Track Back option. Well, Back Back mine SPAMMER! He ha ha ha…. *the evil laugh*

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