Holy Spider Batman!!!

So here we are washing windows when.... We find the HUGEST spider ever*!!! We proceeded to waste 2o min trying to figure out how to get a picture of it that would show the scale and not get us killed by its massive (1/8'') fangs of glory. Anyways just another random day at the WD.

*Ever being defined as: (1) in Michigan and (2) not in captivity.

hurricane katrina

okay, hurricane katrina made landfall this morning. and this storm is HUGE. for example, outer bands of the storm had reached nashville yesterday. yeah... nashville... some 530 miles from where the storm reached land and the rain was here yesterday. we're expected to get anywhere from 3 to 6 inches of rain in the next day and a half. holy shit!

oh, yeah, and when the storm itself (not the outer bands of the storm, mind you, but the actual storm) hits greater davidson county in the next several hours, we're still expecting tropical storm conditions. i kid you not.

so yeah... adventures in the south.

ARRRRGG!!!

So here we are sitting at the corner of packard and platt waiting to turn left and get a $5 pizza when... we were acousted by pirates in the car to our right. They started "arring" at us and waving their hands as though they had swords and hooks. I promptly rolled down my window and took a picture. Here it is (no not T-Rex).

Still alive!

Just wanted to say that I'm still here, and survived the trip to Virginia mostly intact (apart from some battle scars). The wedding was awesome, though I still can't believe that my pal Erik is married. Bizarre.

No internet access from home yet, at least not for me - I need to acquire a wireless card for my desktop. So I'm typing this from my sister's computer.

That's about it for now. Gotta go to work in a few. Hasta!

All I can say is "wow"

Ok so remember WAY back when you may (or may not) have remembered hearing me ramble on about some miniseries on SciFi called Battlestar Galactica? Or when my rambling became an insistent (and annoying) rant about the coming TV series? Or when I made everyone I could watch it every Friday? Well it's going to get WAY worse really soon because the second season is totally kicking my ass in awesomeness. All I can say is "wow" (in a stunned voice) because I really can't explain why this show is so amazing. It goes way beyond my fetish for the post-apocalyptic. There's something else there, that makes the relationships, stories, and everything else come as naturally as breathing.

Anyone who wants to see what I'm talking about (and I'm not nuts, ask Dianna) let me know and I'll be more then happy to sit down and spend however long it takes to initiate you into this one.

Season one comes out on DVD on the 20th. I'm counting down the days.

Once again. Wow.

update on me

hello all!

a quick little update on me, even though this is the eric blog. whatever. i'm far away too! ok... i love living downtown nashville. walking distance to so many things... it's fantastic! i've made so many new friends: it's true what they say about southern hospitality, as everyone here has been and is just so incredibly and genuinely nice. except for the meth addict who lives across the hall from me. my new roommates are awesome. i've managed to make a few dollars here and there. let's see... what else... my roommates and i throw dance/makeout parties. yes, we are all in our 20's. and by "dance/makeout parties" i mean i DJ and have a good time doing that while everyone else has a good time doing all the dancing and making out. whatever.

let's see... i've met a few nice young ladies who have been goodly enough to go out with me in the short time that i've been here. rest assured, andrea and dianna, it's nothing serious. =) i've not met anyone famous since i've been in town, but this place is crawling with country music celebs. hehe... "country music celebs." anyway...

also, my roommates' band recorded at a studio my first two weeks down here. this place is called the castle and it used to be a hideout for al capone back in the day. the day before we went in, Brian Setzer finished his new record there. everyone from Aaron Neville to Bruce Fucking Springsteen has recorded. it's a really really cool place. i helped produce (which resulted in many LOOOOONG nights) and write a couple of tracks on the record. it's going to sound amazing... i'll bring back a copy next time i come back.

oh... and now i've got a beard:


that's about it.

the dom

Why can't I sleep?

<===== My mood reguading lack
<===== of sleep and emaciated
<===== gekos


So it's 3am and I can't sleep. So I've been pokin' around on the interweb and genearly being bored. I've noticed my gekos have VERY thin tails and haven't really grown an since I got them. BUT they keep pooping which means they're eating (I could be wrong here) and they're still active and everything. It's very confusing. I'm currently trying to give them some verity in their diet. So after checking that millipedes and rolly-pollys (pill bugs) are not going to hurt them (via the interweb) I put some in their cage. In fact I have a pretty nifty little rolly-polly colony going in what was once the cricket cage. Not that anyone really cares about my gekos diatary habits, but whateva.

On a tiny small note... I wrote this whole thing without any spelling errors! Yay! Which is strange because I'm sure "whateva" is not a word. But such is life.

So....

Ok I'll address this another day. I'm not about to start a long debate/fight over somthing like this. For those of you who read this before I changed it you understand. If you'd like to know give me a call, but otherwise I concede the point and I'm sorry for it, really.

Now stop freaking ignoring my phone calls! (if I had an angryish yelling smily I'd insert it here)

Not as cool as monkeys....

Just thought I'd tell you this now.... Gas has gone up about 30 cents since you left, Di. And about a zillion cents since you left, Eric. I went out of my way to find gas at 2.69 everywhere else it was between 2.75 and 2.79 for freaking unleaded. I mean $20 didn't even get me 3/4 full. It's a sad state of affairs. Gonnna have to get me a bike and ride on down to GFS. :-P

Stupid snake...

So I set my snake down for two seconds and what does he do? Climbs into a role of tape and gets stuck. It took me 2o min to coach him out of it. I was about ready to cut him out. Stupid stanke.

New Apartment...

No this isn't as exciting as Eric uploading pictures but whatever. I'm now living in pheasent run apartments with Craig. Woot. I'd say we're about 3/4 moved in and 1/2 settled. But whateva. I just moved Monty (the snake) in today and noticed that he is crazy nocturnal! I always thought he just sat around under his log all the time. But no! He runs around and knocks crap over in his tank all night long. :-P That's all I've got for now.

So Devon came out Friday night....

Ok so I was visiting my parents and decided that Devon should come help me pack up my stuff that was in the kitchen. This turned out to be good because we discovered something (I think it was lucky charms a few months ago) and nearly gagged just from the smell. Devon seemed impervious to this smell and helped wash my dishes in the kitchen.

He then came back to Amy's for the night. We decided around 1am that we should take a walk around Ann Arbor*. So I took him (with directions from random guitar hippies) to the spinning cube and let him spin it. We then went by the Dawn treader and the bouncer from the Necto told us to go away. Then on the way back he says he needs to pee so I tell him to go in the bushes up a driveway. Instead of peeing he decides it's a good idea to steal a bottle of wine off someone's porch and runs off**. We then ran into some girls, one of whom was pulling the other in a red Ryder wagon, both wearing bike helmets. Neither of them were drunk. They said they were celebrating their birthdays, even though neither of their birthdays fell on that day. I then had them pull Devon in the wagon. Below is the blurry picture I took with my camera phone.


After this adventure we went back to Amy's but on the way we saw a construction sign held on with nothing more then a shoelace. So we book it back to Amy's get sissors and a knife and liberate said sign. Note in the picture below the size of the sign and the knife (which we didn't use).




(for * and ** ask me)

duck and cover anyone?

So the government is at it again! Wonderful tips on how to survive disasters! Woot!

• Duck and Cover!
• Don't Cough on Me!!
• It Burns Us!! (A.K.A. AHHH! Dead Fish!!)
• Hey Mister! Your Fuse Is Hanging Out!
• Why Are You Glowing?
• Haven't These Been Around Longer then Terrorists?
  

Random...

So I was driving down the road a few days ago, dazed out as usual when I noticed somthing odd dangling from a trucks bumper. At first I thought it was a plastic grocery bag that had snuck through the tailgate. So I totaly rode the guys ass so I could see what it was. And it was.... you guessed it rubber testicals! Complete with gross looking vains. :-P

I quickly took a picture with my camera on my phone. It is shown here. I know it kind a looks like a pale dot but that's just because I can't make it bigger on the blog. If you squint you can make out two balls.