Ehouse makes me so very tired...

[feng_shui_house]

I prodded the window wood more thoroughly and have decided there's no salvaging it. It only *seems* solid. *sigh* I'll try to borrow a hammer drill, really don't want to buy one for a single job. The good part is that I can follow nimitzbrood's advice, once I'm able to drill cement.

Am still fighting ants. I pulled up & tossed out the industrial carpet in the kitchen & found that the ceramic floor tile that I'd never liked is providing a happy home for bazillions of ants- two separate nests. Oh. Joy. As a stopgap measure, I glopped tile adhesive over the cracks & crevices the ants are using as access to Ming's Underground City- maybe they'll die of thirst. One day I'll chip up the tile and try to scrape the floor level & seal up any foundation cracks I find and maybe retile it with something stronger and less ugly. Or cheap and easy to replace.

I do think I have defeated the yellow bathroom ants. So today I patched in the vinyl tiles after leveling the raw cement (reminder of having the main waste pipe replaced). It's a poor job, but the floor is wrecked with paint, etc. anyway- at least now it's level and I can get more vinyl tile to throw another layer on top. (Peeling them up leaves the floor too lumpy for more vinyl and I am really not keen on having to cut ceramic tile to fit around the toilet (or pay a plumber to come out, pull the toilet, and then come back and replace it after I tile). If I had a tile cutting saw... well, I don't.

Score so far: stopped four tribes of ants - one front door, my bedroom, my computer room, and the yellow bathroom. Am still fighting two tribes in the kitchen, and need to work on removing doorsill tile on other front door, and have seen suspicious dirt piles in at least three other rooms, but have not begun battling them yet.

Am stinky, but feeling too lazy to shower. Maybe I'll go chip on the other front door and get a spurious feeling of accomplishment.