NEMESIS!

Oh. My. Gods.

My house is being invaded by gigantic insects.

The specifics: When I returned home from work tonight, what do I see chillin' on my porch but a gigantic pale-yellow moth. I thought it was dead--it wasn't moving, after all, even when I flicked it off the siding--so I put it in a big tupperware container so I could preserve it and maybe identify it...but then I noticed Kristi freaking out and climbing on my desk. Thern I heard the rattling of a large winged insect trying to get out of its suffocating prison! So I released the moth back into the wild, since I really didn't want to keep it if it wasn't dead. It's now sitting on a big fern on my porch, and I hope it won't be telling it's big brother the Mothman about this little incident. (I haven't been able to conclusively identify it yet, but I think it's an Imperial moth.)

Anyway, then a little while ago, I saw Kristi staring weirdly at something on the floor in the dining room. Then she jumped back as though whatever had caught her attention was attacking, so I got up to check it out...and there was this huge brownish-copper beetle-esque beast crawling across the carpet!!!

I think it was...a roach.

My house has NEVER had roaches. Hell, I barely even know what one looks like. But a few weeks ago one of 'em crawled out of my overnight bag at Vanessa's and now this? This fucker was half the length of my godsdamned hand! I caught it in the same box as the moth and threw it in the toilet, figuring I'd flush it away to oblivion--but the monster crawled back up out of the drain! I had to pour bleach on it to make it finally stop moving, and then flushed it away....

Jayzus. I am beset on all sides my monstrous insects. I wonder where all the radiation is coming from to create these beasts?

Web-development question (Nerd Content: 100%)

On a much less arthopodic note, here's a question for all my web-developer G's:

I've recently been teaching myself the ins and outs of XHTML and CSS (and, to a much lesser degree, Javascript as well) in order to completely redo the NYARLATHOTEP webpage, using the newest, best-supported techniques and concepts in order to make the site Totally Awesome(tm) as well as quicker to load, etc.

Now, the question is: I'm contemplating a completely layer-based layout utilizing <div> tags completely positioned, formatted, and controlled via CSS. One of the tricks I want to use, though, is DHTML/JavaScript scrollbars in layers. I mostly understand the JavaScript code, and as far as I can tell it's completely compatible with all 5.0+ browsers, but here's what I wonder: it's a big chunk of code--so just how much will that impact page loading times? Mind you, I don't give a shit about any connection speed less thn 56K, so....

House of Bones

I've known about the Ossuary of Sedlec in Czechia (I mean, the Czech Republic) for years now, but haven't been there yet.

I must seriously work to change that.

It also makes me wonder: just how many graves will I have to dig up, or neighbors will I have to kill, to decorate most of my house in the same fashion?