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Get it now at instapaper.com or Merlin. How are you? I'm good. I'm a little mad. No, what happened? I've got ants. Oh boy I've got serious ants. I've got

ants and they're they are in the least likely place for ants to be in one's home. Like ants in the kitchen I

understand ants around the bathtub where you eat your sandwiches I understand. That's

just something you accept as a fact of life.

Yeah, but I have ants in my in my bathroom sink and I don't understand what they are doing there.

Hmm. Are they are they eating skin flakes? Are they spying on me?

I don't understand it, but I have been

killing them with my thumb.

And I have created a kind of ant holocaust.

Are you trying to make an example out of them?

Well I feel like I have created a kind of killing field where the ants that come later, they see the thousands of skulls of the ants that came before.

All the ants that were wearing glasses, all the ants that had a college education. I have squashed them all and I would think that the later ants would be

would be scared away or would go back to the Queen and say this is bad this is a bad scene up here let's try a different sink let's try a

different sink let's get out of this house I don't like you're kind of like

insect curts I'm a little bit of an insect curds. He's not a he's not a crazy man. He's a great man. But anyway they keep coming and I'm I'm I stand there and I'm like for them to get there to the second floor to that sink they would have to be

everywhere they would have to be in the walls they would have to be

they would have to be in my in my drawers there there ants in my pants

Merlin mmm mmm you see you're like a Salvador Dolly painting I I am going to do the hula dance.

Hmm. That's pretty good. You should write that down.

You could use that.

I could. I have.

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