roaches have sex?!

Some (or 1) of you may remember a recent battle between a spider and myself. I woke up in the middle of the night and as my barefoot self went to go turn off the light, my foot came about an inch away from stepping on a big spider.

I've sprayed and bombed since then, but tonight that same feeling came back to me. I went to the kitchen for a glass of a tasty beverage, and there on the microwave was either a) roaches having sex or b) a strange mutation caused by all these damn chemicals. Basically, if you think of two big roaches joined by the behind in the fashion of catdog, that's what I saw.

Now obviously this creeped the hell out of me. I always thought roaches just magically popped out of nowhere. Either way, I was faced with a choice. Smash the bastards with a shoe, or go grab the ant/roach spray I've been keeping in my bathroom. Seeing as how I still haven't learned my lesson and I'm still walking around barefoot, I opted for the roach spray.

I grabbed the spray, came back (surprised that the roaches were still in the same exact spot), and sprayed away. Now here's a strange thing. When spraying pesticides, I've noticed there is always a delay from the time you start spraying until whatever you're spraying on realizes its getting sprayed. I usually take it as my cue to stop spraying. So I'm spraying this roach/roaches for about 3 seconds (which seems like a long time), and then they start heading to the back of the microwave. After this time I could hear them trying to move around or something....very creepy. Shortly after they appeared at the edge of the countertop (behind the microwave). They dangled for a minute, fell to the floor, and moved to the back of the fridge.

Anyway, the whole time they were joined in catdog fashion, so it seemed very strange. Normally a roach will just take off very quickly and you'll never see it again unless you really make an effort. Anyway, I'm sure the poison will get to them. Even if what I sprayed doesn't do it, the pesticide that I sprayed a few weeks ago is usually effective when the bugs are on the floor.

In other news, I'm kinda happy. The PS3 had a price drop about 2 days after I sold mine! This means that if I had waited any longer on sellng it I probably would have gotten even less. This also means that if I decide to buy one again once I'm back on my feet...that I can get a new one for about the same price that I sold it.

Other reasons to be happy? I was one of the first to see the new Harry Potter movie yesterday in IMAX 3d ...and in good company. :o) My friend Mike scored some tickets and we camped out in line for a couple of hours. I got a free poster too!

I still have no regular job yet, but I have little temp jobs to do until the end of the month. In the meantime there is ebay and craigslist. I love craigslist. Here is a link to the san antonio craigslist. Maybe there is one in your area?

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vera...vera...what has become of you?

puede ser que sepa mas que los demas, pero si algo no me gusta es sentirme como un sabelotodo. me gusta la idea de que aunque otros no sepan lo que yo se, ellos (o ellas) saben mucho mas en su area de lo que yo podria esperar saber.

hoy no me fue muy bien. tome un trabajo solo por hacer dinero. siento como que es un desperdicio...y bueno, a la misma ves pienso que hay miles (si no millones) de ejemplos en el mundo.

el trabajo es simple. tenemos que apagar todo. monitores. computadoras. impresoras.

lo que acabo de escribir me lo han dicho en una llamada personal, una llamada de conferencia, y 30 minutos antes de empesar. y sin embargo es como que si habian personas que aun no entendian.

en total, estoy en el infierno. y por otro lado? habia gente que querian mi trabajo.

necesito encontrar un lugar.

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prozac nation

the ps3 ended up selling for about 70 bucks less than yesterday, but at least the guy payed right away. anywho, now i have a reason to wake up early. who knows, maybe i'll get back into a normal cycle. probably not.

i started looking around and figured i'd check out this movie "prozac nation". i thought it was going to be some sort of documentary. anyway, it's playing in the background now... i'm also just kinda doing a test to see how long the battery lasts on my laptop.

i got offered a kitty. i feel i should take it in, but i won't. i feel i should help find it a home, but i probably won't either. i did set a cat collage as my background though. i couldn't find it again, but i did find http://catsinsinks.com/

i guess i can swim a little. hopefully i can keep it up. it's been raining a lot lately.

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grrrr!

i had legitimate bids for my ps3 on ebay, somewhere in the range of $570. suddenly some jerks bid $1500, and then $3000. i wouldn't mind, but its just a scam. they want me to ship off the ps3 to nigeria. anyway, the only good thing is that ebay isn't going to charge me the fees on the $3000. the bad news is that now I have to start all over again. this time i set it as a 1 day auction. hopefully i'll get some nice bids again.

in the meantime i'm a little stressed. stupid scammers.

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more than meets the eye

its been a movie-tastic couple of days. on saturday, my friend zach paid for the ticket to see "live free or die hard". on sunday/monday, i watched "falling down" with michael douglas. today we saw "transformers" at the westlakes alamo draft house.

sadly, saturday was the last day for the original alamo drafthouse in downtown austin. it was my favourite out of all the alamo draft houses. i guess i'll do some explaining, just in case. the alamo draft house is a movie theater that adds food and drink to the experience. honestly the only 2 food things  i've ever tried have been a pizza and a cheeseburger, but the menu has all sorts of goodies on there. in the beverage area, they have lots of beers, wines, and other goodies like the root beer float or their version of the $5 milkshake (from pulp fiction).

its a themed sort of place, so for example...when "TMNT" came out earlier this year, they showed "teenage mutant ninja turtles" (the 1990 movie) the night before it came out. they had the pizzas on special. they also had the turtle van parked in front of the theater. oh, and they had tmnt pez dispensers! i got donatello. instead of showing advertisements for coca cola while you wait for the movie to come on, we got to see old ninja turtles cartoons, and some other cool stuff. this is typical of the drafthouse experience.

anyway, the original theater was my favourite. as you walked in you immediately went up some stairs, and as you got to the top you could see a giant poster of john wayne's 1960 film "the alamo". somehow everything always seemed kicked up a knotch from the other theaters. oh well. i took some sleeping aids and they feel like they're kicking in. i better shutdown.

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