3/13/14

Tonight… so first off, our house is suffering from a slight centipede infestation.  For those who don’t know, Hawaiian centipedes pack a punch.  Some people who are unlucky enough to find out after the fact are allergic and the sting is possibly fatal.  Almost as painful is the bite.  They get to be 6 inches or longer and have blue coloring.  For 13 months I didn’t see one alive, a few dead in the driveway after a big rain.  Now we have dozens in the ceiling.  Small bitty fuckers, that probably couldn’t bite through the skin, but only getting bigger.

Now on my way to bed, there is a leaf tucked up in my door jam.  I walk by several times, it doesn’t move.   But I notice that it has a tail and the more I look I realize that it might also have legs.  It might not be a leaf … scorpion.  So far I haven’t even heard that they have those on the island.   Given its disconnect from the mainland there are many things that just never made it here, I’m not sure if scorpion is on the list.  I check Robyn’s room for a dirty glass, there is a better chance of that being the case then you might think.  But no success, so I go get a class from the kitchen.  It hasn’t move yet, why should it run now.  Come back and sure enough I have trapped a scorpion in my bedroom doorway.  

After a bit of debate I decide that my karma has been pretty good these last couple weeks, I have found $80 on the ground ($20, $20, and $40).  So instead of throwing the scorpion in the fire outside (roommates were having a little bonfire to enjoy the night) maybe it would be better to release him.  But as I am coming to this decision, a fire truck arrives and 4 fire fighters have come to investigate our fire pit.  Apparently someone down in the valley below has seen our little fire and was concerned that our house was burning down.  They were very nice, told us that for cooking or religious services a fire was ok, but otherwise it is frowned upon.  Vieve quickly extinguished it and they headed off. 

The scorpion, while already decided it could live, was clearly not met to go in the fire.  It was released over the side of the house back to not my room.  Now its almost 1am, I have to work at 7am and I can’t sleep for shit…and the internet doesn’t work, so this is going to have to wait to be posted for at least a day or so.