Man, it's been a busy couple weeks...
I've been bouncing around between writing new music for SUMO, learning more stuff in Photoshop, taking Dreamweaver MX 2004 lessons at LYNDA.COM (which have been fantastically helpful and I urge you to check out that link for their great training library), applying the new stuff I'm learning to the SUMO page and all my other day-to-day stuff.
My daily routine has basically consisted of getting up at 6:30 am (+4 or 5 "snoozes"), going to work, coming home, shoving food in my facehole, getting on the computer until my eyes can't take it anymore, and then jumping on the guitar/bass/notebook to work on songs. I usually crash at about 12:30 am or so.
And on top of all that, I found time to take pictures of a somewhat unusual visitor to my back porch. Behold the Walking Stick...
This interesting little bug showed up on my screen door and I couldn't resist harrassing it for some photos. No worries, though: I put it back where I found it when I was done. You can see that I tried to get closeups and different angles but both my camera and my photography skills leave much to be desired. Managed to get a nice pic of my pale, meaty hand.
Pretty cool, though, eh? I've seen a walking stick exactly one other time and that was a couple of years ago in the same spot: the screen door on the back porch. I had pics of that one, too, but lost them in a hard drive crash.
Anyway, bit of a surprise for me as I didn't know you could find these guys 'round these parts.
posted by Jon @ 8/17/2006
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Foolish, clownish insect. Blessed with the greatest and coolest camoflauge imaginable, this Einstein wanders onto the one place it sticks out like a sore, meaty, pasty thumb. What a waste of the best disguise of all time. I hope you ate it.
Although a rare sighting in these parts, particularly more os the clsoer to the city you get (as the "stick" disguise becomes more useless), I must say that my life has been saturated with these things as of late. There was a conversation held between myself and a friend a few weeks aga regarding this walking stick, then by total coincidence, while leaving the Sapphire offices, myself and a fellow worker noticed an odd stick that was "sticking" to the front doors. When this matter was further investigated, we were suprised to find that we were being duped by a single insect, portraying himself as a stick (which he was not). I then found it even more coincidental that my first visit to your blog in about a month features this Stick article as the first thing I see. In all, I love Stick Bugs
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