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I'll protect the identity of the guy who has the high bid on three of my items, but he lives where I'm moving! Wouldn't that be hilarious if I put these on eBay so I wouldn't have to pack them and I end up bringing them with me anyway to drop them off with him instead of charging him shipping. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Yes. Yes, thank you for bringing that up in the first place. These sets are sealed and on top of that were shrinkwrapped during our rodent problems and have no possibility of contamination as they were on a high shelf with no rodent access.

Yes. Thanks buddy Centipedes freak my megablocks. There's nothing I hate more.

I imagine you mean 20% of the ambassadors are EB members.

Oh Hooray! Congratulations. I don't fully understand. Somebody PMed me and told me to add Conchas. So I have conflicting info. Did I get the wrong Portuguese rep? This is hard since everybody has two names. EDIT: Aha, PLUG. Now I fixed it. Thanks Marcos.

Aha. I see the confusion very clearly now. Isn't it ironic though that I have to go out there to build Chicago landmarks?

What cobwebs? I love when Riley runs by with a tail hanging out of her mouth. She's good at getting mice...and squirrels, chipmunks and frogs. She got a groundhog once and with her friend Snickers tore apart a raccoon. She really wants to bag a deer. Anyway, disgusting was part of the cleanup, but the D-Con was just annoying because it got everywhere. It has a protective wax coating around it but the few pieces I missed before I started washing the bricks dissolved in the water and the powder was coming out of the collinder when I tried to shake it out. So, I had to keep rewashing until I knew the poison was gone. Sorry to gross your out. And yes, especially in Chicago those mice can sneak up on you at any time, even in the cleanest apartment. That mouse was a thief! And yes, the spiders are a nuisance especially when making nest in tubes. I've been in this house for four years and we're starting to see some brown recluse around. That would be an unpleasant surprise in a bin of unsorted bricks... Yes and sugar cookies don't work at all. I like having the collection down there because I don't have to worry about sun damage and yellowing. I just have to keep opened sets and enclosed MOCs away from the floor. I finally learned how the mice were getting up on my shelves and cut off their path, but there was still the "residuals" from their stay. Bunnies are overpopulating the midwestern US as well. My dog also likes a fresh nest of baby bunnies occasionally. It's a horror movie to see and hear, but at least they won't be eating our plants. What the hell? Are you some sort of horror movie Snow White? Bambi 2: Bambi's Revenge. Opening scene: Bambi jumps through computerbug's bedroom window and bites his face off... Scawy!!

Matija just caught me up. Shows what you know, Quarryman!

Yes. Yes, you did. New International Shipping rules for US: Everything over a certain weight overseas has to go priority. Sorry.

Damn it! Thanks for the heads up. Who knew Matija was such a common name??

So, since I'm packing my entire lair to move to California and since, working for the park, I will not be allowed to sell LEGO on eBay or Bricklink, I've decided to sell the sets I've been waiting to appreciate on eBay: (Thanks to Zorro for creating the links for me. ) 10123 LEGO Star Wars Cloud City MISB! starting price: 0,99 USD CLICK HERE to place a bid! 7181 LEGO UCS Tie Interceptor MISB! starting price: 0,99 USD CLICK HERE to place a bid! 7785 LEGO Batman Arkham Asylum MISB! starting price: 1,29 USD CLICK HERE to place a bid! 4856 LEGO Spiderman Doc Ock's Hideout MISB! starting price: 0,99 USD CLICK HERE to place a bid! 7019 LEGO Vikings Fortress vs. Fafnir Dragon MISB! starting price: 0,99 USD CLICK HERE to place a bid!

Let me be the first to welcome our ambassador back to his rightful place on the throne: CopMike! Wahoo! And representing other communities the following EB members have also been selected as Ambassadors for Cycle 7: Bonaparte-Classic-Pirates Stacy_ToT_LUG-MOCPages & TwinLUG Cagri-TurkLUG Colonel-Byggepladen Conchas-PLUG ellerb-Classic-Castle.com, GatewayLUG & ForbiddenCove.com HJR-LowLUG Matija-Brikkelauget Matija Grguric-Klub Kockice ZeeK-DoubleBrick & Phantoms Congratulations to the new ambassadors!

Just received this e-mail from Steve Witt. You will find several EB members on the list. Congratulations guys! Announcing the members of the LEGO Ambassadors for Cycle 7 This was a great year for nominations for the LEGO Ambassador Program. We received a total of 86 nominations and settled on 45 members who will be participating for the coming year. The new cycle represents 27 different nationalities and 50 different groups across the globe. Please congratulate the Cycle 7 LEGO Ambassadors. The following list gives the name of the Ambassador, what group(s) they represent, and what country they live in. Sebastion Arts – De Bouwsteen – The Netherlands Sue Ann Barber – MUGs – Australia Patrick Begin – QueLUG – Canada Heiner Berg – MBFR – Germany Norbert Black – ParLUGment – Canada Pitsanu Boonyarit – Thai Brick Club – Thailand Andrew Bulthaupt – BZPower – USA Pijarn Charoensri – T-LUG - Thailand Marco Chiappa – ItLUG – Italy Ben Coifman – Railbricks, ILTCO & COLTC – USA Fernando Correia – PLUG – Portugal-Conchas! Yvonne Doyle – Brickish Association – the United Kingdom Ben Ellermann – Classic-Castle.com, GatewayLUG & ForbiddenCove.com – USA-Ellerb! Adrian Florea – RoLUG – Romania David Furphy – CALG – Australia Lluis Gibert – HispaLUG – Spain Tim Gould – Brothers-Brick.com – Australia Matija Grguric – Klub Kockice – Croatia-Matija Grguric! Philip Heinrich – Bricksinmotion.com – USA Tom Jacobs – Classic-Pirates.com – Belgium-Bonaparte! Tsang Yiu Keung – HKLUG – Hong Kong Sung-Wan Kim – BrickInside – South Korea Christian Krutzfeldt – 1000Steine – Germany Tuomas Kukkamaa – Palikkatakomo – Finland John Langrish – VicLUG – Canada Igor Makarov – DoubleBrick & Phantoms – Russia-ZeeK! Lino Martins – LUGNUTS & SeaLUG – USA Matija Puzar – Brikkelauget – Norway-Matija! Don Reitz – FBTB.net – USA Wagner Cavalli – LUG Brasil – Brazil Harald Roossien – LowLUG – The Netherlands-HJR! Dan Rubin – Classic-Space.com – USA Kazuyoshi Saito – AFOL Japan – Japan Svend Erik Saksun – Byggepladen – Denmark-Colonel! Verena Schaden – LCOe – Austria James Shields – Brick.IE – Ireland Josephine Shih – TWLUG – Taiwan Mikael Sjostedt – Eurobricks & SweLUG – Sweden-CopMike! Pedro Silva – Comunidade 0937 – Portugal Ludo Soete – BeLUG – Belgium Stacy Sterling – MOCpages & TwinLUG – USA-Stacy_ToT_LUG! Saso Tomat – Slobricks – Slovenia Jenn Wagner – BrickLink – Canada Marcin Witkiewicz – LugPol – Poland Cagri Yuz – TurkLUG – Turkey-Cagri! Congratulations to the LEGO Ambassador Group for Cycle 7!!! Steve Witt LEGO Ambassador Lead Tormod, Jan, Jim & Phil LEGO Community Team Discuss this news here

Don't get me started on those guys. Always crawling into boxes and nesting up, having babies. Then they come out every spring wearing sunglasses and boxing gloves and just WHAM! scare the crap out of you as you innocently walk through the door. We had an infestation this last April and I couldn't get rid of them until I took those boxing classes... You doofus. Kids are pets.

Seriously? Living in the forest and having a basement LEGO room makes it hard to keep the critters away from things.

Interestingly enough, there's a Carpenter Ant infestation in our house right now. We're winning, again by poison. They don't go into the LEGO boxes as they're not interested in shelter, just wood. But as I'm washing the LEGO all the ants are coming to the pipes for water because the poison dehydrates them. I have LEGO bricks drying on a towel in front of a fan and ants crawling all over them for the water and they're dying. I can't win, it seems. Glue traps have caused another problem. I had one in the window by a display shelf. The sun melted the glue which ran down the back of one of my old MOCs. Some brasso took care of that. But then, I spilled my sand green tub onto the floor and a bunch of pieces got stuck to a glue trap there. I've saved the trap just to make sure I get the exact pieces back in an upcoming Bricklink order. Ew, that computer story is hilarious and gross. Luckily mouse pee can't rust LEGO. Yes, I'm not sure the D-Con is worth it. Our dog likes to catch mice and she was grabbing them so easily one day and I realized it was because they were in shock from the poison. I had to take her to the vet to get the charcoal treatment in case she had swallowed one... We have used other traps that are more humane anyway. Not ridiculously so, we want them out of the house for sure, but better than slow agonizing death of poisoning...

As I'm packing up my LEGO lair to move across the country, I'm realizing the type of trouble mice can cause with LEGO bricks. Two of my creations: an igloo and a castle had become home to mice during the years I had them displayed on a shelf. Taking them apart to sort them out into my storage bins and drawers I found heaps of stored food, D-Con (mouse poison) and piles of mouse turds. Of course, the ugliest surprise came as I was dumping open sets, that hadn't been fully parted out, into a misc bin. Perhaps the last step in the packing process is that catch-all misc bin that you will just sort when you arrive at your destination. Unbeknownst to me, the final box I dumped into the bin had a great amount of D-Con stored in it and I basically dumped it all into a huge unsorted bin of LEGO bricks. Several hours later I am finally drying all of the LEGO bricks after separating the D-Con and washing the bricks, batch by batch, in a strainer in the bathtub. Lesson to share: If you live in an area with mice, don't leave opened boxes at mouse level and check enclosed MOCs for uninvited rodent tenants.

Don't put the whole url between the -youtube- tags, just the video id: [youtube]7TQByv_xkuc[/youtube]

The train on a wedding dress? You know?...

I wasn't aware of this. Where did you hear that?

Blow it out your train, nut job.

Wouldn't it be cool if this were blogged? OK, so it's not Brothers-Brick, but I think it's pretty cool.

The original post was about not having many Mexicans here on the EB boards, so please step down from your soapbox about immigration. That is not the point of this topic.