there's a mantis on my schmantis!!

Well, he was on my desk, keyboard, mousepad and mouse earlier today.

(click the pics for big, detailed images)

I always thought praying mantises (mantii? LOL) were very cool. They're so cool looking, and have those awesome front folding claws, and they can fly. And their heads! Freaky and all alien!
And the female mantis is the epitome of the womanly species. While mating, the female mantis often will swivel her head around and begin eating up -- not eating out -- the male, starting with the head. And the male, being the epitome of the manly species, keeps on fucking her even when his head is completely consumed, that dedicated horndog!

lovely thursday

• Go to bed around 2:30 a.m.

• Didn't fall asleep until about 3:30 a.m.

• Woke up at 7 a.m.

• At the dentist's office by 8 a.m.

• 8:30 a.m., dentist tells me the cavity has reached the nerve. My options are root canal or extracation. Not good news, considering that my dental insurance is maxed and won't renew till Jan. 1.

• I ask the dentist if there's anything that can be done to hold me for a bit, at least until I can save some cash for one of the procedures, and extraction will be a bitch because it's my last molar on the lower right. He says he think he can, especially once the x-ray shows the nerve isn't abscessed. So he cleans it out, does it with medicine, then seals it up. Hopefully, it will last till January, he said.

• Some pain once the novacaine wears off, but nothing too bad; more achey and irritating than hurting. Still, wish he would have prescribed me some kind of painkiller. Stupid Aleve.

• Home for about an hour, played poker online.

• Missing My Favorite Person, who's even further away from me than normal, as I only have time for a one sentence conversation with her. Bleah.

• Off to work.

• Home for late lunch around 1:30 p.m., played poker online.

• Back to the office for work.

• After work, off to Kmart and a few other places to get stuff for Steve's b-day. It's a golf theme (duh). Got some of it; need to buy a few more little golf things to complete it (it includes a round of golf on me).

• Home again, home again, sans jiggity jig. A little TV, a bland dinner, some more poker online. Built my chip stack to over $6,000 ... too bad it's not real money.

• Balance checkbook.

• Still missing My Favorite Person. Yes folks, I'm a complete sap.

• Still awake and blogging after midnight.

• Take some more Aleve.

• Just realized I'm out of milk, which means I have to save the rest of the chocolate chip cookies for another day.

• Considering sleeping soon, but will probably play a little more poker online, and flip through some more blogs.

• Realizing how boring and tedious this post is, especially in the wake of the Dread Pirate DZER post below.

• Fucking bleah™.

avast, me hearties! the early hnt from guam!

Per Kristen's -- oops, that should be Tequilagirl's (MY BAD!) -- request, this week I'm going to walk the plank and do a "pirate" Half-Nekkid Thursday post.

Methinks I would have made a good pirate ... super tall, super big, look good in a bandana ... but not a captain. Just the burly, giant first mate, at best.

So prepare to shiver yer timbers, and batten down the hatches, lads and lasses, as the Dread Pirate DZER comes near.

Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of dumb!

Heh.

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