Just had a good second interview with a manufacturing company for an apprenticeship. Really good opportunity considering the scope of the business. They print elements for 100+ currencies, some crazy equipment.

Congratulations! :)

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Nice! If your presence here becomes stagnant we'll know why. We won't like it, but we'll know why.

Try dealing with AutoDesks EULA.

I miss the days of just having a serial number.

Dudes, I had a near death experience last night. I was laying in bed, playing Pokemon Fire Red and watching Castle when I see something crawling past me out of the corner of my eye. I look to see what it is and see a spider crawling not six inches away from me going over the side of my bed. Intent on killing the motherfucker I look down to see what it is and see a big ass motherfucking black spider. It's abdomen was roughly the size and shape of a pee, maybe a little bit bigger. It's legs were thick as fuck and you could see where they were segmented. It was about as big as a dollar coin. I grabbed a bunch off tissues and quickly killed the shit out of that bitch, looked at the bottom of her, and saw a splotch of red. It was too smashed to make out the hourglass, but there was definitely red and it looked exactly like a fucking black widow. It crawled not six inches away from me, and that's just when I noticed it. For all I know it was crawling on me. *shiver*

They're more afraid of you than you are of them. For good reason too. What if a spider could smash you with a huge wadded up piece of something it uses to wipe it's butt?

I could give a shit how scared it was. As far as I'm concerned spiders are demons in disguise and Black Widows are the avatar of Satan on Earth. If I'd had nothing but a gun, I may very well have shot a hole in the floor to kill that bitch.

I don't like the bitey ones either, but I've had a couple Rose Hair Tarantulas, and my buddy used to have a Goliath Bird Eater.

Goliath birdeater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They don't bite humans (usually).

But yeah... you almost died dude.

I've been bit by black widows on occassion, usually just leaves a tiny scar and you have flu-like symptons for a couple days. Brown Recluses are far worse bites. My friend has a scar on his face to date and he was bitten as a teenager. Tarantulas are actually pretty docile and make good pets.

Yeah, I hear that they're usually only deadly to children and the elderly (so watch out Janszoon!), but I have no desire to ever find out for myself. So, I'm gonna act like they'd fucking kill me.

EdIt: BTW, how big were the ones that bit you? The one that I saw was about the size of a dollar coin with an abdomen roughly the size of a pea, maybe a bit bigger. Definitely the biggest spider I'd ever seen in a non-zoo kinda setting.