your wanking arm must be all cramped up at this point

only the first few weeks... once you establish your dominance, they back off a bit. every once in a while, you will get a large and quick rebellious one. i recommend household cleaners and large shoes. and quick wrists

oh crap. taking into consideration my serious arachnophobia, i'd probably die there after a month.

or you'd adapt to survive and mutate into a GIGANTIC SPIDER KILLER

well if you have a housemate, you could get him/her to do it. if you live by yourself, it could be tough. especially because they come out at night.

the first week, i would see these shapes on the ceiling, and i'd flick the light on real quick... usually it was nothing, or some beetle or something... sometimes it was a large spider above my bed

this is a huntsman. very popular in ausland. they eat other spiders

aaaaaagh :eek:

do not google ceiling spiders

and of course, i had to. now i'm all itchy.

I recall someone said earthquakes are worse than hurricanes recently, my entire life I have lived in Los Angeles, there have been three catastrophic earthquakes in that time, in 1987, 1989 and 1994.. and I don't think the power has ever gone out in my lifetime for more than two days!

Not where I live. The last spider I saw that wasn't a tiny house spider was a funnel web in my sister's shoe. She put it on then screamed when she felt it. Luckily it didn't bite her, they're the most dangerous spider in these parts.

I have about a million spiders in my house.

When I was younger we named a Huntsman spider Norman. :D

And I kept a Wolf spider as a pet (for a yr4 project) and it had like a million spider babies and every time me and my partner opened it about 40 babies ran out. :)

Did. Meh not the worst I've seen.

Google Camel spider. ;)

I used to let the spiders in my house live and let live, after all, there are only three or four harmful spiders in southern california to begin with, so it was never a problem.

then one day I woke up with the worst seering pain in my foot, like I was walking on coals. I just figured I hurt myself.. after three days it progressed to disabling my entire leg, as if the whole fucking leg was on fire.. no sleep, pure night sweats like the worst fever I have ever had..

finally after three days of this I wandered my way into the emergency room to find out that had I waited two more days I probably would have died, a spider had bitten my foot and had some kind of wild ass bacteria on its fangs which had infected my leg and was literally killing me.

moral of the story. I kill all spiders in the house on the spot, however with remaing bit of regret, after all, they didn't hurt me like that one, but you can not be too careful after a near death experience..

Starting next week, I am living on my own. Just me and my dog. My wife and I are splitting up. Well, just for our careers' sake. She's going to Portland and I'm going to Asheville. The aim is to do this for no more than a year. But I could be living in worst places alone than Asheville, let me tell ya.

She found a great apt in Portland by the way, which will some day be our apt. Just across the river from downtown, loftlike apt on the 7th floor of some tower complex. Takes like 5 minutes for her to commute to work, and walking to downtown is about 15 minutes. Yay.

yeah, like Bend or Sandy..

Where that.