Drive You Mild

Don’t be a hater…. You know you like this stupidly big watercooled rig.

Sadly, I don’t do much gaming, rendering, or the countless other great uses for a system like mine… So it’s basically just an oversized eye-sore used for checking email, surfing the web, etc.

Every now and then, though, I write some kick-butt .NET apps :)

Ok… I admit it… I have an unhealthy love for the undead… So when I had the opportunity to dress up for Halloween, I decided to seize the moment… Rather than being a traditional zombie, though, I decided to be a Corporate Zombie… After all, nothing says braaaaains like a man in a tie… Besides, shuffling along with a briefcase hanging open is pretty darn fun.

I randomly decided to get a pet snake. Like, I woke up one day and decided to get it. Being a lazy geek, though, I ordered it over the internet.

I did a bit of research to figure out what type of snake I wanted. Knowing I’d probably end up forgetting to feed it once and a while or not having the perfect temperatures for it all of the time, I ended up deciding on getting a California King Snake. It’s non-poisonous, will eat pretty much anything, and is fairly robust.

I bought it as a tiny lil’ thing… In order to not freak out the FedEx delivery guy, though, the pet shop I ordered from (in New York) wrote on the box that it contained baby tree frogs. Nice. When I first got it, I was upset because I assumed there was a mixup at the pet shop. After I found the snake inside, though, I realized it’s probably best for the snake that the driver not know what’s in the box next to them… heh.

It’s pretty weird watching it eat, though… I feed it frozen mice. Well, I buy them frozen… I have to thaw them out in warm water before it can eat them.

When I first got it, it was barely big enough to eat the crazy-small mice called “pinkies”. Now it’s finally big enough to eat “fuzzies”. Geesh… even when they are dead and frozen, they still sound cute. Hehe. Oh, well. A snake’s gotta’ eat, right?

So far I’ve only gotten bitten once. At first I thought it was funny that it kept nibbling on my thumb a little. But once it latched on, it just wouldn’t let go. Once I finally got it off me, though, it hid for a day or so and wouldn’t come out. I guess it was cranky.

Other than that, though, it’s been pretty low-maintenance. If it wasn’t so fast, I’d probably play with it a bit more. As it is, though, it likes trying to explore a bit too much when I let it out.

So I’m driving down the road while on vacation out West and I see a sign that simply says, “Here It Is.”

Who wouldn’t stop for something as alluring and mysterious as that?

My curiousity got the best of me… and I followed the sign to a tourist shop. The shop itself wasn’t too interesting, but they did have a giant rabbit out front.

Being a mature and well-adjusted adult, I did the only thing I could do in that sort of scenario… I put on a cowboy hat and climbed on.

YEEE-HAW!