Last night I got out of bed to go to the bathroom. I turn on the bathroom light, and there, big as day on the bathmat is the biggest freaking spider I've ever seen outside of a zoo! It was about the size of a jar lid. A huge, hairy old mama! I stare at it for a while and then go get a shoe. It starts moving, so I start moving...away. But then, with a primal grunt/exclamation I pound that sucker with my size 11 adidas! It curled up, like wounded spiders usually do. But man, I can't figure out how the thing got in the house. Through the tub drain maybe?

I'd called my wife in to look at it before I smacked it with the shoe. After we went back to bed, I'd lay there and then think I felt something crawling on me. I even danced my fingers lightly along my wife's shoulder and you'd have thought I jabbed her with a cattle prod! I wonder why you skin starts feeling like that? Anyway, I'm debating buying the PestOffense off of the internet. It's one of those things you plug into the wall and it makes all the wires in your house hum with some high frequency something or other that is supposed to make all pests flee the premises. If it works, it would be a good investment since ants are sometimes a problem at our house too.

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State was picked to finish last in the SEC west yesterday by the media. That's fine. It usually works out better for us that way. When we're picked to do well, we usually stink (look at last year for an example!)

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Well, I'm off to PickWick. Space is at a premium and people keep wanting to add. We need someone to want to add a boat! I'm afraid we'll be too crowded.