Saturday, October 13, 2007
Things that are as old as Nick
So I found the "[year] introductions" category on Wikipedia today while reading about Nerds candy and decided to check out 1979. Among the things that were introduced in the same year that I was born: the McDonald's Happy Meal, Maglite, Mello Yello, the Sony Walkman, Trivial Pursuit, and Tostitos.
In TV land we also got The Dukes of Hazzard, The Facts of Life, This Old House and the TV show/station Pinwheel which would later bear a variation on my name: Nickelodeon. A show that would later find a home on that very network also came out this year: You Can't Do That on Television. Apparently Pinwheel and You Can't Do That on TV are two of Nickelodeon's longest running shows ever.
Monday, October 08, 2007
Spidey!
So I was walking through my room when a little spider ran across my path in the general direction of where I usually keep my bags... That corner of the room as now been thoroughly sprayed with spider spray now. Lets hope that the only spiders I see in this room for a good long time are dead spiders. At the very least I want them to be spiders I am sure won't bite me and cause my skin to start rotting. Yes. Dieing skin is bad. Bad I say!
EEK!!!!
So this thing just jumped out of my laptop bag (not this particular one, but one of it's kind...) and ran across my hand, onto the table, off the table and onto the floor under the table where it became partially squashed by a chair and then fully and very authoritatively squashed by my foot.
Now I have to ask myself... How many of it's babies are in my bag? Where did it COME from? I don't want more, and I don't want my flesh rotting off.
Now that I look at the picture closely and think back to the horrifying few moments before I dispatched the vile creature, it may not be a brown recluse. But I'm not sure what it is. I don't know my spiders very well. The legs weren't quite like a brown recluse, and the abdomen wasn't quite so large. I dunno, but I didn't like it jumping out of my bag and onto me.
Klasinc&Loncar Duo (Just trying to help it get picked up by Google spiders, I maintain it for them)