Dude, everyone knows that if you have to use something aerosol to kill a spider, you use Extra-Super hold AquaNet and laminate the thing. And then make someone else dispose of it. In an ideal world, someone else deals with the spiders anyway.

I never use aeresol; I usually use a cleaning spray like Fantastik.

But you don't light your lighter while doing it. That would cause a pretty big boom, too.

No, you do that when you need a flamethrower to light the nest of tent caterpillars on fire.

... what? That's how my dad takes care of yard pests.

The body sock thing kinda freaks me out, but I am going to be talking to mac's therapist about all that stuff.

It looks like it has a similar effect to Temple Grandin's squeeze box she invented because being under pressure calmed her autistic hyper-reaction to stimuli.

I'm mainly only freaked out by being in small spaces with other people. MRIs are blessedly solo adventures.

Happy Birthday, Liese!

This weekend, I'm hanging out with my friends C. and J., their baby, and C.'s entire family (U.S. contingent): her parents, sister, aunt and uncle who are all down from NY, and her brother and SiL, who are here from Portland.

No, you do that when you need a flamethrower to light the nest of tent caterpillars on fire.

My father's method was to light a turpentine-soaked rag atop a tall metal pole.

Those nests go up like whoa.

Please tell C's parents I said "hello," amyth. They're good folks.

Those nests go up like whoa.

They do! It's kind of fun to watch.

Wait. This is why no one will ever let me have a kitchen torch, isn't it?

Got no problem with small spaces. I discovered with skating that I get really freaked out by going backwards. And it held me back on a lot of basic turns. I could make myself do it, but not quickly or well, even when I was getting really good on tricky forward footwork. I just go into instant panic mode.

No, you do that when you need a flamethrower to light the nest of tent caterpillars on fire.

Stephen once torched a hornet's nest in our front yard that way. He was so proud of himself. I was just happy he didn't burn down the yard, or the house.

It looks like it has a similar effect to Temple Grandin's squeeze box she invented because being under pressure calmed her autistic hyper-reaction to stimuli.

It makes so much sense. Newborns like swaddling for the same reason -- after all those months curled up in the womb, being exposed and out in the open has to be pretty overwhelming.

The best way to kill spiders is having your husband squish it with a shoe and then flush it down the toilet while you hide in another room.