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October 4, 2002
Bugs!
Today I encountered more than my share of insects. This morning in our bathroom I killed seven mosquitoes. Seven! And our bathroom is not that big. In fact, it's smaller than my office was at Microsoft.
Then, on the 20 minute walk home, I was swarmed by tiny insects (I don't know what they were. Gnats? Mosquitoes? Small birds?). I felt like Pig Pen from the Peanuts comics, surrounded by a perpetual cloud of bugs. Passing motorists must have thought I was either waving to them, or swatting at invisible attackers.
Motorist: "Do I know that guy? I think he's waving to me..."
Me: "Bugs! Bugs! Get them off me! They're in my hair!!"