who knew that it's just a cylinder of clothes next to a cylinder full of flames. What advanced technology.
I moved into a recently vacated room in the building my friends own so they could rearrange the place I was staying.
except today the power was turned off, which includes heat. That's what I get for being a squatter. My friends couldn't get the power company to turn it back on before Monday. I was more amused than sad. It seems reasonable for the former tenant to stop paying utilities.
So I went in the basement for the light, the laundry and the wireless access, where I discovered the exposed dryer fire.
After collecting my laundry, I punched happily away at my email until I looked down and saw the worst thing ever: a spiderpede. I don't know what they're really called but I hate them as much as I hate ticks. They're centipede length with dozens of spider legs. It looks like pure evil, like a twisted wicked spider or centipede mutated horribly and ate centipedes until it became the Uruk-kai abomination of the scary insect world.
I would have taken a picture of it, but I felt it urgent to blast it out of existence with the first box I could reach. Then I took all my stuff up out of the basement. When I go bed I will wear earplugs and cover my eyes the way I do when I live with cats.
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agh! i used to have "spiderpedes" in my old apartment and wanted to die when i saw them!
The other names I use for them are Spatan (not spartan) gremlin bugs, and (I believe someone was referring to them when he said,) Illy Willy.
Ugh, and they live here in the cold! Wah!
on later inspection. I think "Uruk-kai" is supposed to be "Uruk-hai."
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