Sometimes Waiting for an Apparition Drives a Person Crazy

On one of Okinawa's outer islands today, here I was waiting for an apparition to show.

Well, I got bored and started looking for other things to do with the camera.

There was a single water lily blooming in someone's planter but, a fly decided to make it his home.

He may have been drunk, or dead.  I'm not sure.  But, he didn't move when I said, "Git".

So, I reached in my pocket for the trusty, old Swiss Army Knife.

Then, got the tweezers, gently crushed him and tossed the bum out of there.

That's the kinda stuff I do to keep myself from going crazy while waiting for apparitions.

Another thing those tweezers are good for is pulling ticks out of bellybuttons.

A TICK IN A BELLYBUTTON COULD DRIVE A PERSON CRAZY, TOO !

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Swiss Army Knife, Tick (Photos) No Bellybutton This Time !

The good old Swiss Army Knife came to the rescue, again.

Supposedly, I'm home and sick in bed with one of those wicked colds that even

THERAFLU would have a hard time curing.  Honestly, I spent the last 20 hours flat on my back.

When I went to the kitchen this morning for my iced coffee.

ALONG CAME THIS TICK.

He was crawling up my leg, unaware that right there on the kitchen table was

MY SWISS ARMY KNIFE

So, I stealthily slid the tweezers out and grabbed the sucker before he could even figure out where my bellybutton was being kept.

Then, I prompty fried the little devil.

Quickly, I wrapped his remains, still fried to the tweezers, in cellophane.

And, I sneaked out the door under the cover of darkness so, I could come here and take photos for everyone to see.

Plenty of people begged me not to show my bellybutton, anymore.

But, you wouldn't believe how many times a week the search engines send folks with tick-in-the-bellybutton syndrome to this blog.

So, I couldn't pass this opportunity up, even at the risk of being caught out of bed.

I just gotta tell ya

IF YOU DON'T HAVE A SWISS ARMY KNIFE

YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T GO PLACES WHERE THEY HAVE TICKS.

One more thing I gotta tell ya.  If I don't get back home and hide under the covers quick, before the little lady wakes up and discovers me missing when I'm supposed to be deathly ill.......

IT'LL BE WORSE THAN LIVING WITH THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST

BYE, BYE !

PHOTO OF THE DAY:  AT THE KIMONO SHOP

The Classic Swiss Army Knife. A Mad Mike's Product Review

Here is a gadget carried in my pocket, most of the time, attached to a keychain.  I've been using these little Swiss Army Knives for over ten years.  I'll start right off telling you this is one product that gets a FIVE STAR RATING from RyukyuMike.  That way, if you have a queasy stomach you won't have to read the whole review and look at all the photos.  Just go to the Amazon Store and buy one.

To give you a sense of scale here's what the contraption looks like attached to my keychain. 

That little cow-bell up there came all the way from Switzerland, too. My Huskies respond to it.

This Swiss Army Knife is advertised as having seven tools.  Everybody knows about the knife and scissors, some of the other gadgets might need explaining.  I pulled out the toothpick so you can see it.

This photo depicts three more tools, all combined into one piece of hardened steel.  That's right !
What you're looking at is a fingernail file, a flat tip screwdriver and a screwdriver that works on phillips-head screws, too.  That's why it's tapered.  I wouldn't recommend using it to try and change the muffler on your car, or anything like that but, the screwdriver does work on an amazing amount of little gadgets. 

No need to call AAA to open the battery box on  Energizer Bunnies with one of these tools handy.

There has been an incredible amount of Search Engine traffic where people have been coming to my blog with "Can a tick get into a bellybutton"?  and "How do I remove a tick from a bellybutton"?  

There was a model's fingers lined up for this part of the photo shoot but, she got a queasy stomach and I told her that's OK.  I still like Ryukyu Rusty's Gal.  She just missed out on a chance to be a member of my Swiss Army, if I ever decide to start one up.  It's not for everybody, you know.

If you have a Swiss Army Pocket Knife and a tick crawls into your bellybutton, here's all you need to do.  Take the tweezers, grab ahold of the little sucker and pull him out.  It's easy.

Doctors, may not approve of Ryukyu Mike's methods but, this is the way I do it when there's none around.

There would have been a few more photos showing how I torch the tick (with a lighter) while holding it with the tweezers.  That's to make sure they don't get on my dogs, or anyone else.  But, I was in a hurry to get two more ticks, I'd been playing host to,  when the first one escaped !

Back to the Swiss Army knife.  The scissors and knife blade are the tools I use the most.  I use them to open snailmail, medicine bottles, "New Improved" absolutely idiotic-any-kind-of-containers or packaging from aspirin bottles to DVDs to freakin-impossible-to-open-with-your-bare-hands packages of frozen food.

The Swiss Army knife will never let you down.  I love it.