Ladies and Gentlemen: The Beetles! It seems that I have new unwelcomed house mates. I first noticed them showing up in my bathroom a couple of weeks ago. Everyday, I'd find two or three tiny black beetles either dying or dead on my bathroom floor. On one occasion, I found one in the toilet bowl, an apparent victim of suicide. I wasn't terribly concerned about it until a few nights ago, when one of them crossed the line.

I woke up in the middle of the night this past Friday, awoken by a tingling sensation on my right hand. I switch on my bed lamp, and saw one of these beetles crawling on my hand. Perhaps it had made the trek from the bathroom, across the hall to my bedroom, and decided that it would be fun if it crawled on me. Its fun did not last long. Picking it up between my thumb and forefinger, I crushed its tiny body.

Still, I wasn't overly concerned. I figured that it was a fluke that one of the bathroom beetles made its way to my bedroom. However, the very next night, I was awoken by a beetle crawling on my head. That was the last straw!

On Sunday morning, I went out and bought some bug foggers. I had Leon's show to tend to so I didn't want to fog the entire house. I put one in my bedroom and one in the bathroom. I put up a blanket over the entrance to the hallway to block the area I was fogging from the livingroom. Then I set the bombs off and let them do their thing while I helped to monitor Leon's chat room.

I went to bed that night, confident that the foggers did their trick and that my pest problem was eliminated. As it turned out, the beetles were less confident than I. For the third night in a row, one of the little buggers woke me up by crawling on me.

The photo you see here is the third beetle. If one more shows up, I'm booking them to play a concert at Shea Stadium.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- Bernie  ¶ 9:13 PM