tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930375442497799514.post-70108302854580763232008-07-22T08:21:00.000-07:002008-07-23T08:35:07.415-07:002008-07-23T08:35:07.415-07:00I'm working on some SharePoint customization from my home office... You know how when you're trying to remember something or figure something out and you sort of look up? Yeah...I just did that. The spider in the picture below looked right back at me. Suddenly SharePoint wasn't my problem. I had more immediate debugging to do. Had I not seen this type of spider before I would've been more in the smashing squishing mode than a picture taking mode, but I have, so I took a few shots. You can't tell from this angle, but he's smiling. I've searched for this guy online before. They're pretty harmless, but scary as heck. It's called the "giant house spider"...yeah, duh. I'm sure it took no more than 3 seconds to name it when the first person saw one. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_DuNxoM3z_3M/SIX9ifS-WsI/AAAAAAAAB-4/MDjgpq6TIoE/s1600-h/7-22-08-spider_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_DuNxoM3z_3M/SIX9ifS-WsI/AAAAAAAAB-4/MDjgpq6TIoE/s400/7-22-08-spider_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225861711591791298" border="0" /></a> <blockquote>You can't tell the actual size because there's nothing in the picture to compare it to, but I can tell you it was about the size of a 50-cent piece.</blockquote> The first time I saw one of these was about five years ago. We had some other bug problems in the house so we bought the house-fogger-bug-killer-can-things. I think that's what they're called... ha ha. They killed every bug in the house...except these guys. Basically we killed all of their food, so they all came up from the dank darkness of the basement and underside of the house looking for something to eat. All they found was scared people and ultimately...death by shoe, fly swatter, rock, etc. I'm glad I don't live there anymore, but I guess they're all around since one came to visit today. I'm not sure how to spell this but I'll try... Eeeewwwww!Tom Puleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697521511530638404noreply@blogger.com0