Black widows, again
So, I finally come home to await the registrar of voters posting anything but absentee ballots (even if, you know, they SAY all the precincts have reported in, mysteriously having only as many votes as the absentee votes earlier) and find a black widow the size of a cricket walking along the wall towards my front door.
What in the hell does a black widow that size prey upon? House pets? Small children? Shrunken and slow-moving senior citizens?
And what, exactly, in the ecosystem precipitated mutant poisonous spiders that size?
Ugh, ugh, ugh.
When I move back to Virginia, trading in black widows for fireflies, no one should be surprised.
- In other news, it looks like the registrar of voters was just waiting for me to go to bed to post what appear to be final results. Sneaky. The final (for now?) story: Hesperia votes.
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I would begin to suspect my wife.
Comment by Dmitry — November 8, 2006 @ 6:41
Umm, all the black widows I remember seeing as a kid in SoCal were that big or bigger. Of course, I guess I should ask how big are the crickets?
J
Comment by John — November 8, 2006 @ 9:53
Good point. I’m not talking about cute little tiny crickets. I’m talking about big honking Japanese-children-will-adopt-them-as-pets-and-name-them-after-cartoon-characters crickets.
Including legs, the black widow was about as big as my thumb. This just seems excessive, especially for November and, you know, walking slowly towards my door with a house key in her mandibles.
Comment by Beau — November 8, 2006 @ 9:59
“(even if, you know, they SAY all the precincts have reported in, mysteriously having only as many votes as the absentee votes earlier)”
Are you hinting at some conspiracy? Is Lindley hiring lawyers a la Al Gore?!?!?!?!
Comment by Henry Hesperia — November 8, 2006 @ 16:51
Nah, it was a bug with the voting equipment: County catches glitch in vote tally.
Comment by Beau — November 8, 2006 @ 17:34