Bug Bounceback, Bureaucratic Bulls&@t

For a while the weather was up and down and the bugs had disappeared. Now it’s gotten a bit damp again and the bastards are back in the halls of humanity. There was an instance where I had my little kitchen led light on for a bit too long perhaps and the sixleggers were having fights on the kitchen window. The winner was as always a preying mantis of considerable size who was then patrolling my kitchen window basking in its victory. All I could see from the inside was its disgusting underside crawling around the window trying to get in at the light. Absolutely disgusting creatures, there is not enough bug spray in the world to annihilate those things. Just lingering on the window , probably laying eggs and all sorts, attempting to infiltrate this bastion of a no bug zone. They are strangely prehistoric or something, I can’t imagine how screwed we’d be if these things were 2/3metres in length. Same with the spiders and jumpy things that have been making a reappearance. If they were the same size as humans they’d be moving extremely quickly relative to us, with extremely powerful mandibles/biters and they’d be a real nightmare then. Imagine a 2 metre long wasp or a cow sized grasshopper. How many of us would just be plucked off the ground by a massive dragonfly or bee or something. Thank god for lower oxygen levels, apparently the dinosaurs were living with these type of buggers.

Bureaucratic hell: resubmitting the same documents 3/4/5 times and receiving the same rejection notice every time. Waiting weeks for a response as to what the rejection notice means. Response includes a hefty amount of jargon, explains nothing. Wait another few days for a response to the next request of “can you explain what I need to change” and receive the final solution. Mostly my fault of course but it’s so incredibly frustrating that there’s no possibility of just asking a human what the issue is. You must go into the ai chat , wait until they can’t figure it out then get forwarded to the mailbox which is full of idiots like yourself waiting like numbskulls in purgatory and then you receive a useless piece of organisational jargon that nobody outside the organisation understands, then you go back into the purgatory mailbox with the automated responses (“we are experiencing a high workload right now! You may never hear from us again! Good luck!) and finally a human surfaces and points to the tiny little box you missed and then recedes back into the swamp of digital chaff.

That’s another two off the list from earlier.