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:( I feel your pain on that, Den. I went almost 6 years with the only reliable internet access I had was via the library.

Turns out this branch closes at 5 CST on saturdays. :/ At least I have three knitting books to tide me over 'til Monday. Going to a pep rally for the local baseball team and adding my name to the banner that'll be going to every World Series game they're in this year.

How long have you been knitting? (I think I asked you before, but I can't remember o.o) And at least you have patterns and a pep rally. :) What baseball team is it? (If you don't mind me asking?)

I've been knitting since I was 13, so about 15 years now. The team's the Kansas City Royals. The last time they went to the World Series was in 1985, against the Saint Louis Cardinals, but it looks like we'll be playing against a different team this time.

Also, Lawtan, I have a link for the library: http://paper-replika.com/ They have an extensive database of paper models that can be printed off and built, including several that are near and dear to my heart (Transformers, ftw!)

The Library has been updated.

Dragonflies are cute! Especially when my sibs and I used to play with the nymphs, which made them as adults see us as somebody safe to sit on. I'm talking about the big ones. And also, giant diving beetles are cute, especially the one I once stuck in my hoodie pocket to show to my baby sisters, and she was still there when I got home (I know it was a girl, because she wasn't shiny). Bumblebees don't LOOK cute to me, but sometimes they can act it. Like the big fat queen that used to sit on my nose as a kid to wash her face, and swat at me if I tried to interest her in moving away.

Boo is a Pomeranian who is advertised on notebooks and posters and stuff as the cutest dog in the world. Nasty little black eyed horror. Eewwwwww. Makes me think creepy bug thing more than bugs do. (note: most poms make me shudder)

Awww. Guess you can watch it in her memory. Yes, I did. It was 'Tarzan the Tiger'.

I find certain arachnids cute, along with bumblebees, grasshoppers, cicadas, butterflies, and dragonflies.

<.< Once critters become thinner than my pinkie finger, is when they generally stop being cute. (Alias, wasps, ants, and hornets are not cute)

Oh yeah. Grasshoppers can be cute. Butterflies kinda skeeve me out. And I once made friends with hornets, and thought they were cute as they begged for food at the place I'd trained them to go to for it. Pseudoscorpians are adorable tiny things.

*Hides from Tam's hornets*

I have a good chance of anaphylaxis if a white-faced hornet stings me. I don't want to test that chance.

When I was 10 I went on a hike up a mountain, and someone in my little group stepped on an underground bees nest. Needless to say, we all ran back down the mountain screaming, my shirt full of bees. 15 stings. And I've only been stung once since then, when a bee flew into my hair and got tangled. Soo thankful I'm not allergic to them.

I once stepped on a bumblebee at a church picnic... this was a few years after I got stung by a wasp that had been hanging around the playhouse my parents had out on our back patio... I'm wary of bees and wasps now.

You trained hornets?? Neat! I'd be wary though. I'm not a big fan of most flying insects. XD Butterflies and Dragonflies are pretty awesome, but other than that, I'm good. No thanks, lol. Rolypolys/pill bugs are my favorite bug. I used to catch them and try to keep them as pets. Just as a reference, these are the guys I'm talking about. :)

I've been stung a few times over the years by different flying bugs (bees, yellow jackets, wasp, etc.) and luckily enough, I'm not allergic. My mom is though, and it would always freak her out when I'd get stung. She's was so afraid I'd inherited her allergy.

*eeks at Lawtan's allergy, and at the stingy stories*

I've been stung many times myself over the years, mostly by honey bees and yellow jackets. And a couple times by the smaller type of bumblebee that lives around here. But I've never had trouble with hornets. When I was a little kid I used to find the bumblebees that had stayed out all night and were cold and hungry, and give 'em a dandelion to drink. LOL

Are pill bugs woodlice? Or a different critter? I can't remember right now.

Oh, and my freakiest bugs? The ones that make me scream? Long horn beetles, and big fat fluffy moths.

*shifts the topic of discussion away from bugs for the time being*

Local baseball team's going to the World Series... Today was a "pep rally" of sorts. One of the local radio stations made a banner that reads "#AllAboutThatBlue", and encouraged people to sign it. I signed it, and got interviewed by a local news station. My segment begins at :51. :3

Den's on TV!

Yeah. Too bad I can't share it with the people in my family, because they'd freak about my hair.