ebonlock | Jul. 16th, 2002

This one's too easy. Oh and congrats to

cyranocyrano for guessing yesterday's correctly, even if he did just take a wild guess. Surely some of you folks have seen the original "Rebecca", huh? Anyone? Bueller?

Had a lovely evening with

windrose last night and we watched Witchblade (which was pretty damn good) and ate pizza and just fell back into the old roomie habits. It was nice and relaxing. I also got the remaining big boxes loaded into my car, and took my beloved sword over to the new place, along with all my altar stuff. Tomorrow I'm setting up my altar and maybe doing a little housewarming spell to make myself feel at home.

Now a little weirdness to share. We've been having...issues with the hot water heater. In addition to that I had quite possibly the worst showerhead on the planet. Now it wasn't a normal one so I couldn't just go out and buy your average replacement head. Oh no, I bought one and it didn't fit so I spent a good portion of yesterday's lunchbreak finding the little jobbie to attach to it. With some assistance from

aelfsciene I managed to get the new one on and working properly.

Feeling flush with victory I prepared to take a lukewarm shower only to discover this big black spider in the bottom of the tub. Nothing too weird about this on the surface, right? Well what if I told you the same spider had been in there the night before and I had washed it down the drain, taken a bath, emptied the tub, etc.? Yes, it came back.

Now normally I'm a peace loving type, live and let live, that sort of thing. And spiders outside or in the living room don't bother me in the slightest. However, the bathroom and bedroom are bug free zones as far as I'm concerned, anything in either of those two spaces gets treated to a swift and untimely death. So grabbing a shoe I gave it a few good whacks and sent it once again down the drain. If it comes back again tonight I'm going to seriously freak out.

So I sent the thing off to spider heaven and then once again prepared for my shower, only to glance down and see a daddy longlegs in the corner. Off I went for the shoe again and goodbye second spider. I feel the need to send a strong message here, one that will equate to "There's no food here and many of your kind have died, it would be in your best interests to hunt elsewhere." I feel like the spider Angel of Death. We really seem to have a shitload of the things around the place, but I suppose it could be worse...it could be silverfish or cockroaches or something.

The second weird thing was that I closed and locked my bedroom door last night and when I woke up this morning it was open. The way the airflow through the house works the wind shouldn't have been able to knock it open, even assuming a weak lock, or that it wasn't properly shut, etc. Very strange.

Crunches: 0 (I got in late and had too many other things to do, still didn't get to sleep before midnight even without them)
Spider Fatalities: 2