8-Legged Pains

With the amount of woods that surround my house, it should be no surprise when insects find their way into the house. Now, I'm not sure if it's because of the weather or some other factor, but this summer has been particularly full of spiders around here. It seems every time I look around there is a spider either on the ceiling or crawling across the floor. I used to be really bad about spiders, but as I've gotten older I've finally figured out that I'm actually very big compared to these little buggers and a size 14 boot goes a long way in ending any question of who's area this is.

Still, it doesn't make walking into a spider web any less unpleasant. Also, the ones who appear when I'm in the shower are not my friends. Our new shower liner actual has small weight on the bottom that just look like spots when I don't have my glasses on, so you could imagine my surprise when one of those dots started moving because it was actually a pretty good sized spider. That's fun first thing in the morning. But, the most annoying spiders are the ones who seem to like my truck the most. Everyday when I go out there a new web has appeared on my beloved Everest. The largest ones seem to appear in my tire wells and no amount of driving gets rid of these things. But, I would like to give kudos to one particularly determined little bugger who I think is actually living inside my passenger side mirror. No matter how often I clean the web away the next time I'm in the car there is a fresh web going from the mirror to the door handle. I almost feel bad knocking it off every day. Almost.

-Far be it from me to tell people who to run their teams, but I have to question Eric Mangini's big philosophy of trying to keep his starting quarterback a secret. Was there any way this was going to work? In today's world you can't keep a movie's ending secret, but you're somehow going to keep quiet who will be starting at one of the most visible positions in sports? Honestly, with the money that is going to be passed around in Vegas alone people have too much riding on that game to not find out. Plus, people talk. As if Quinn's not going to tell his family and they won't tell friends. Instead it looks like Mangini's ship already has some leaks and players aren't respecting their coach's wishes. Well played, Eric.

-From that same file: if you're the Raiders, wouldn't you work out an agreement with Richard Seymour on stuff like "We won't franchise you" before you finalize a trade? Seems kind of important right about now, doesn't it?