The sky is so full of cicadas we can see them on radar.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. We had a later start than DC around here, but...

... they're very loud in my part of SW Ohio now.

I haven't regularly drove into them and over them on roads like I did 17 years ago yet, but that will probably happen in a few more weeks.

Funny story from this morning:

I heated coffee in my microwave and then mixed in some creamer. I normally put some creamer in the cup first and mix it by later pouring the coffee into it, but forgot this time. I didn't even turn on the kitchen lights when I did it, relying on the light from an adjacent room to see in there.

So I eventually drank most of the coffee, then rapidly took the last swig from the cup. In that last swig was some semi-hard object, and I assumed it was a cicada! That made little sense, really, but they've been on my mind lately given their loud shrieking. I quickly spit it out back into the cup!

Then I poured it into the kitchen sink, seeing that it was a piece of macaroni! How did that get in there?!

I figured it out about a minute later, remembering that I used a "clean" fork left on my stovetop to mix in the creamer. It was the same fork that I had used to mix some macaroni that I was boiling on my stovetop the previous day!