I heard that if you fill a plastic sandwich baggie halfway up with water and put a few pennies in it and then hang it in a window, it'll keep flies away. I didn't believe it, and then I did it anyway. I hung it up in the window in the computer room. There hasn't been one fly in here ever since. Sometimes I like to kneel on the bench under the window and rest my elbows on the window sill and hang out the window and smoke like some kind of whore in Berlin or something and feel the breeze and watch...