First things first!

Gaaaakch...!! Pfffffft...!! Okay...

1. If you're a salaried employee, don't complain about the long hours, instead work more creatively and productively to get your responsibilities done and out of the way. For you, it's not a question of being present from 8-5, no! It's a matter of getting the job done (and doing it right!).

2. Who let all these spiders in here???!?


So why am I in such a strange mood...? I'll tell you why! This morning, I woke up to a typical Seattle summer morning. It was cool and overcast. Then I got on the road and headed to my office away from my office in beautiful Portland. Several hours later, I'm down there, meeting all the people and doing my thing. Around 5pm, it's time to head out (oh and I missed out on yet ANOTHER Norah Jones concert, the first one being in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago). It takes about an hour to get to the WA/OR border (perfectly natural) and then I just cruise on along home. I spent about 14 hours on the clock today. Sheesh... However, I refuse to complain about it because I know that there are wonderful opportunities for me just waiting around the corner!

Now, about bugs (and spiders, too!)... I hate bugs. They have their place and that place is called "outside". For those of you (and you know who you are) who don't know what that is, that's the place you find when you leave your residence, house, apartment, cardboard box or whatever... It's BIG too! So I'm minding my own business this morning and as I was getting dressed, I noticed that there was a spider there, sizing me up. Almost as if deep inside it's arachnid mind it was thinking about how many meals it could get out of me. (YUCK!) Now, normally spiders bother me just in the slightest. However, this spider wasn't just any old household spider... Oh no... This thing could have carried off a small dog or kitten!!

As it sat there, mocking me because I didn't see it initially and had walked by it several times (note to self: wear glasses more often!)... I got this feeling that the spider was mocking me because it was rubbing it's legs together and the fangs were salivating. I promise that I'm NOT making this up... (Embellishments, however, are present.)

So, I did what any 26 year old man would do once I noticed the hunter/carnivore sizing me up for a morning snack. I screamed like a 12 year old girl!

After I came back to my senses and my skin was crawling, I proceded to chastise the spider with whatever spray happened to be handy (turns out that while Clorox disinfectant spray is great at killing germs, spiders don't seem to mind it). I think I actually managed to piss off the spider because it turned to me and charged!! I threw the spraycan at it and jumped on my bed, frantically looking for more heavy or hard things to throw at it because my first shot had missed.

Well, I think that the spider actually tired of playing with me and turned away as if to leave me be... I seized the moment grabbed like 20 tissues and tried squishing the thing to death. Three minutes and a lot of squishing later, convinced that I was now the victor, I bundled up the tissues and carefully placed the bundle into the trash... After this whole ordeal, because my skin was all shivery from the experience, I had to take some extra time to make sure that the dang thing was DEAD but that he hadn't had any friends or reinforcements lying in wait...

Anyway... That's my adventurous story of the day. So, while I hear that everything's big in Texas, I have no desire to find out because the spiders are plenty big and juicy up here... (Shiver.) I need to take another shower!! :o(