Quick Notes

[aggienaut]

Creepy moment of the day: I was eating dinner just an hour ago when suddenly the door to the yard shook as if someone was trying to open it. Not slower rattle of the wind (there was no wind), and not an earthquake (I looked at the hanging objects around me to see if they were swinging), but the hard jerky motion of someone trying to pull, push, and pull the door in quick succession. It only lasted a few seconds.
   It was pitch black outside so I couldn't see anything but needless to say when I got up and peered through the glass I couldn't see anything out there. I'm pretty sure it was probably either a possum or something running into the door or the cat running into it from my side (she could have done so without me seeing, the table obscured my view of the bottom of the door at the time). While I was investigating, the cat was staring intently at something outside I couldn't see.

Teaser of the day: While in the shower just now I finally came up with an idea for my "home game" (unofficial, noncontestant) entry for this week's LJ Idol topic ("the best thing") -- thatched roofs. (=

Creepy moment of the yesterday: Sunday morning I happened to feel something floating around in my mouth so I fished it out. Much to my utter shock however, upon examination it appeared to be a small tapered object with orange and black stripes, with a tiny sac on the wide end of the taper. Ie it looked exactly 100% like a bee stinger.
   What a bee stinger would be doing in my mouth, UNNOTICED, I really really cannot fathom. I was extremely baffled. I examined it as carefully as I could and it certainly looked like a bee stinger.
   Now the above rattling door story to me is just kind of a "heh some might consider that creepy" story, but this, this is weird. Twilight zone weird. My only rational explanation is the obvious "I have misidentified it, it is just a piece of food that looks shockingly similar to a bee stinger, and you are gross for posting about food you found in your mouth." But seriously. O=

Awesome moment of the otherday: I got to fire a black powder rifle. It was fun. Had gone to the shooting range with my friends. They brought a variety of guns but after trying my hand at all of them I ended up spending the most time on my friend's black powder rifle, seeing how fast I could get the reload down to (for the non-gun-inclined, think of a revolutionary war musket, where they have to pour in the powder and then ram the shot down the barrel for each firing)

Comments

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

Ug, I hate moments like that because I'm paranoid... I would have freaked out.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I'll admit I made sure the door was locked after that. O=

[mermaidkween.livejournal.com]

I always get the best ideas in the shower. The only place where I can't write them down.

Therefore, I always forget them.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Clearly you need to keep a sharpie in the shower so you can jot in down on your arm.

"well, I got out of the shower less clean than I got in, but I got my idea!!"

But yeah showers are great for ideas. I love just relaxing in the shower and letting my mind wander.

Could Be A Coon

[vakratunda.livejournal.com]

I've seen them do doors.

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[vakratunda.livejournal.com]

Black powder's cool. Also not subject to most gun laws.

I like the 1851 navy colt (http://www.armchairgunshow.com/ot53-pix/ac-384.jpg). You load and cap the cylinders individually. You can swap out cylinders with the lever under the barrel, if you are slick.


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[glowy-lovers.livejournal.com]

Creepy and creepy :(

[millysdaughter.livejournal.com]

I love firing black powder weaponry!

[memeworrywort.livejournal.com]

Boy, for someone who's not in LJ Idol, you sure do idolize it.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Well that phrasing makes it sound like I'm an outsider to idol who's going on about it. I was, of course, until recently directly involved in it and I'm definitely still staying involved.

[gaeln.livejournal.com]

door thing - happens ALL the time here

stinger thing - try taking a slug out of a coke bottle, the old little mouthed kind, and suddenly having a mouth full of spider. Spit spidey and coke all over the floor

guns - N/A

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Oi! What kind of spider?

I actually had a bad dream the other day where I opened up a beehive and pulled out a frame, and the way frames are usually covered in honeybees, it was covered instead with big fat black widows!! And then I kept finding them in other places as I went about my business in my dream.

I'm actually not at all afraid of spiders in general, but black widows being particularly poisonous, and moreover FREQUENTLY found in beehives, I've become kind of paranoid about them I think.

[memeworrywort.livejournal.com]

cling to her skirts! carpetbagger!

[gaeln.livejournal.com]

'What kind of spider?' Sweetie, I have no clue. He just went all bloaty in my mouth, or so it seemed, and I spit. After which he scurried away. I was in San Gaberial Valley at the time. Does that help?

'I've become kind of paranoid about them I think.' I'd have to agree. You do have some pretty interesting, vivid and, in this case, creepy dreams. Have you ever been bitten? Or would that mean like instant death or something. I am insect -- or whatever -- deficient. I do like dragonflies though, they're pretty.

Spider bites

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Haha well, when I asked what kind of spider really I had only thing in mind -- tell me it wasn't a black widow?! :D

Yeah it wouldn't be instant death. In fact I think death from black widow bites is rare. But if you want to be grossed out google around for the effects. It will like, dissolve a hole the size of a baseball in your leg. O_O

Fortunately I've never been bitten.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

What surprises me is that, given your profession, you don't find bee stingers in your mouth more often. Then again, I guess that's what the protective gear is for, right?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hahaha yeah I generally aim NOT to get bee stingers (or stings!) in the mouth. It is not uncommon to find them in my arm though. Generally I get stung and I scrape them out immediately so they don't continue to pump venom into me, but sometimes I miss one.