Want $2K Quick?

Sometimes you just need a couple grand to put you over the top, and you might be willing to stretch what you'd do to get it. If that's you, Gheorghe: The Blog has a hot tip.

Don't mind a few insects creeping around?

Don't have a house worthy of remaining bug-free?

Don't you just miss this guy?

Apparently The Pest Informer, a Raleigh-based extermination information company, is willing to pay you $2,000 if you'll agree to let them "release ~100 American cockroaches into your home, and give [them] permission to film, and test out a specific cockroach treatment."

What could go wrong?

Here are the rules:

• You must own the home or have written approval from the homeowner.
• You must be 21 years or older to qualify.
• You must be located in the Continental United States.
• All tested cockroach treatments will be family- and pet-safe.
• You must not try any additional cockroach treatments during the duration of the study.
• At the end of the study, if the cockroach infestation hasn’t been eliminated, we will use traditional cockroach treatment options at no cost to you.
• The duration of this study will be approximately 30 days.

Here's my question . . . if "traditional cockroach treatment options" actually work well, why would The Pest Informer need to be investing thousands of dollars into a study for new technological advances?

Here's the link!

We Will Pay You $2,000 For Us To Release Cockroaches Into Your Home

Oh, and here's a trailer for what the after-picture looks like. No big deal, apparently. Grab the $2K and run!

Stupid Pet Tricks Filler

We have two cats. One, named Theo, is a normal cat, aloof around people he doesn't know, generally friendly, but equally skittish. The other, called Sage, is a big galoot of a lunkhead (or whatever the female version is), not very smart, but probably the most people-friendly feline I've ever known.

We're in the process of having our basement finished. This weekend, the painters toiled in our basement to prime the walls.

I came home yesterday from grocery shopping to find Sage waiting at the front door, angling to make a run for it, which is her normal move. I looked down at her, and saw some sort of foreign substance on her head. When I reached down to investigate, I felt a crust on her fur, and realized that it was obviously paint. I grabbed a wet towel and went to work on her, to limited success.

Later that evening, I went to the basement to see the progress. Sage, dutiful dog-like cat that she is, followed me. While I looked at the walls, she climbed a ladder that stood in the corner. A ladder, as it turns out, that still had wet paint on it. She doubled up on the paint-head look, as you can see:

That white spot in the middle of her head? Not fur.

And yes, it appears that we are down to posting filler photos of our pets. It's summer, man.