Our little apartment here in Huanchaco has a serious ant problem… First it was the huge, flying crickets. Now it’s the daily ant attacks. Ugh.

At first the ants were benign lines marching from here to there in our apartment, with no particular goal that we could find. They’ve caught on to the human occupants though, and are now attacking our food. Cliff bars, box of cereal, bag of caramels, plate with scrambled egg remnants. It has usually been because we leave the food out overnight, or not in the “food safe zone” on top of our fridge. However…

This morning, they got to this coffee mug within about an hour after me using it for breakfast. Ew. EW! This place really is a zoo… the ant farm exhibit is in our apartment.

Note: This photo doesn’t show the bazillion ants swarming around the cup on the table cloth.

Other than killing real living bugs, Scott has been killing big, nasty programming bugs for work this week. His companies’ game is this close to being done, which is a crazy critical time, and he needs to be available. This crunch has serendipitously coincided with our down time here in Huanchaco, which has been great.

That leaves me… been killing time with Photoshop and getting through Micro Economics Demystified. I have to say, the book is pretty engaging and I’m taking my time to pour over it. Good signs for grad school in the Fall.