Daily Archives: September 5, 2003

I really really hate flies. And, unfortunately, the house has a minor plague of fruit flies. Little annoying buggers that you can barely see, but which drift into your eyes or up your nose. I think they can smell the sugar and the fruit in the gasses that the blueberry wine is giving off as it works. They tend to congregate around the carboy, even though they can’t get into it.
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At work this morning I took a picture of a bottle of some stuff called “Bone Wax.” Despite the name, it’s not actually a polishing compound… In fact, if you do a quick Google search, you’ll learn that Bone Wax is a sterile beeswax compound that is used for hemostasis of bone.

Which means practically nothing if you don’t speak medical.

Fortunately, you’ve got me here to provide a translation.

Basically, it’s skeleton spackle.
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