10 Sep
2003
10 Sep
'03
1:24 a.m.
Dammed shame, man!
I've had paper that bugs, termites and moisture have gotten into. (Bugs
and moisture are a fact of life here in Florida!) I put some baking soda in
a large salt shaker and sprinkle it between all the pages. It helps dry out
the paper and get rid of the smell. Close the books up for a while with the
baking soda in it then open them later and shake the stuff out. It might
help neutralize the acidity too.
Joe
At 05:08 PM 9/9/03 -0700, you wrote:
I just found out that two of my magazine boxes were
attacked by some damn
little wormy things. They were white and about a quarter inch in length.
They'd come up through a crack in the foundation of my warehouse and
started eating away at the file boxes. Fortunately, they seemed to like
the cardboard way more than the magazines, though they did take out
significant chunks of a couple issues of Kilobaud Computing from 1979
(bastards!) They also left a lot of wormy poop behind, and unless I'm
smelling the acid from the paper breaking down, they left a stink too.
Damn punk-ass bitch wormy things.
Has anyone else had issues like this? How did these fuckers find my boxes
out of all the damn cracks they could have crawled out of? What are they?
Termites?
Now I have to waste time filling in the cracks so this doesn't happen
again. I can't have gawd damn wormy things eating my damn computer stuff!
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