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Say Hello to my li-il frien’!

Last night, while sitting by myself downstairs watching “Wanted” with Angelina Jolie, that cool black dude that plays the head of the tech department at Wayne Enterprises, and a host of other people you’ve never heard of, this crawled across the floor:

IMG_2846In my younger years, regardless of the location, I would have instantly called for someone larger than myself to come kill whatever creepy, crawly thing I found around my home.

However, these days I have pity on the little critters. I mean, they just want to eat and have sex; just like me. So, I tend to cut them some slack…unless they are inside my home!

This little guy ended up floating in the commode after I shmooshed him in a heavily padded wad of toilet paper.

First thing this morning, I tried to figure out what he/she is. I mean, anything with cool markings like this has to be either A) One bad dude, or B) Pretending like it’s one bad dude.

I think it’s human nature, when trying to identify the unknown, to gravitate towards the dramatic and thus, the closest thing I can find to it, is the “Brown Widow,” shown here:

imageAnd yes, they are a poisonous cousin to the “Black Widow.” I think this is the Bollywood version of the Black Widow actually (sorry Romi, you have me on a Bollywood kick).

These guys have apparently just started moving into N. Georgia, having come up from the coast, so who knows.

Black, brown, whatever. I’m breakin’ out the spray this weekend!

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By Chris Souther

Chris joined the Air Force out of high school. After four years of supporting communications for the Department of Defense, the White House, and stations around the world, he left the military and moved to Atlanta. For the next six years, Chris continued working in the telecom field, eventually traveling around the country teaching companies like MCI, Nortel Networks, and Cabletron, how to do what he did.

When the dot.com crash happened, upon recommendation from his wife, Chris re-enrolled in school and earned his B.S. in Communications (PR & Marketing).

Since then, he was worked in network security, healthcare, banking and finance (and FinTech), general high tech (AI/ML, Cloud, IoT), and most recently, application development fields. Now, with more than 15 years of both Marketing and Communications under his belt, he helps organizations grow their business through the proper application of marketing, communications, and content.

And he blogs on the side. It keeps him sane.

6 replies on “Say Hello to my li-il frien’!”

Oh god. That is something, though being a man, I would not mess with. If I saw that thing in my house — I would immediately kill it. And then be paranoid for weeks wondering WHY it’s in my house, HOW it got in, and HOW I can keep it out. Then proceed to call the exterminator to kill anything else that may be lurking. 😀

Good job, killer. 😉

RE: We used to have an exterminator who also did CareerMom’s house. The guy was effective I guess, but he creeped us out! Just to get rid of him, and to save some money, I started doing my own exterminating, thanks to Web sites like “http://doyourownpestcontrol.com/”

Best thing I ever did. Course, we still have termite bond with a real company, but for your common home pests, I do it myself. I use these little episodes like with the spider, to know when it’s time to spray again.

Uh, I believe you misinterpreted that thing for a “little critter” when it’s actually a “man-eating killer.” It does not want to “eat and have sex, just like you,” it wants to eat the man of the house and then move into the bedroom with the little woman. I believe its’ only known enemy is a hydrogen bomb.

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