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I'm spending the night at the Pagoda Hotel while the house is being fumigated with Vikane.

Spent the past few days reading up on Vikane (sulfuryl fluoride), its properties (odorless, colorless) and other info associated with it (there was a recent case where a woman died in a fumigated apartment building... the management claimed that the woman sneaked back in after the building was sealed and the fumigant released, while the woman's family believed management didn't go over the building thoroughly enough). But exterminators usually release a warning agent, usually something like chloropricin, into any building before they release the fumigant. That warning agent is designed to act like tear gas, irritating your throat and lungs so that you'll notice the potential problem before the fumigant is introduced. Not only that, the warning agent remains in the building during the fumigation process so anyone who enters the structure immediately knows they shouldn't be there (assuming they ignore obvious signs like the entire building being sealed up in a tarp and the DANGER: POISON signs on the outside of the tarps).

At work I'm learning PHP and seeing if I can convert a memory-intensive PERL script to PHP. If I'm right, the PHP script should be much nicer to the server than the PERL one was.

Not much else to write at this point as I'm getting tired and have to be up early in the morning for squadron PT. Will write more once I'm back home Wednesday evening...

Back home

I'm writing this back home as I run 3 fans (1 in the living room, 2 in one of the bedrooms) to aerate the house.

The Vikane concentration is already below the maximum 5 ppm required before the house can be re-entered, but I'm running the fans with several windows open to drop the Vikane concentration levels even further.

Since the first floor is mostly tile except for the walls and the windowsills, I haven't noticed much in terms of dead termites or termite droppings except in the second room (which is currently being used as a storage room).  That's probably going to be the only place I'll really notice anything except perhaps for the ceiling, since the second floor is (by contrast) all wood.  I think if we notice anything, it'll be either in the space between the first and second floor, or all on the second floor.

Tonight I decided to do some laundry, which had been piling up before the fumigation.  I might also wash some of the linens but might wait until I can at least pick up a second set of linens before I do so.

Not much else to write about at the moment, but might add more later...

Good idea, but isn't this overkill? o.O

The latest decision by the U.S. Army Hawaii, in its infinite wisdom:

http://starbulletin.com/2005/11/16/news/story01.html