Part of living in Florida

It's been a long time since I've checked in, so I thought I'd put some pictures up on here. Ever since living in Florida, I've seen some cool bugs/animals, etc. Besides the every day gecko lizard or the multiple cool birds (sand hill cranes, pelicans, the occasional owl), there are a few things I pay some special attention to.

I found a couple of cool things outside today that caught my eye. Most of the pictures below were taken with my cell phone.

The first 2 pictures are a snake I found while mowing the lawn. It heard the lawn mower coming along so it slithered behind this water thing we have on the side of our house. Based on research I've conducted on the Internet, I believe it's a young Florida Cottonmouth Snake (poisonous):


Here's a Wikipedia article and a Florida Snake Website link if you want to read up on it.

The other thing I found was a cool little hairy spider. It was almost all black with some tiny white spots on it's abdomen. The wife and I thought it had 2 huge green eyes, but upon further review, it turns out they were not it's eyes, but it's chelicerae. Here's my picture of the underside of the spider:




Terrible picture I know. I would have gone out to take a picture of the top side of the little guy/gal but I was in my skivvies and the neighbors may have been offended. Here's a better picture similar to what this one looked like:




Well I hope that was interesting to someone out there. Oh yeah, GO BEARS!

Whassa Happenin Now

It's our 4 year anniversary tomorrow, and also my wife's 27th bday!  It will be 10 years of us "seeing each other" on June 27th of this year.  Lots of milestones!

 

I'm in!

How about that folks...I am now the #1 entry when someone types "Mike Pernecky" on a Google search page. I think the Googlers could sense that I was going to give up on them with this whole Blogger deal. Of course I've made the treck over to MySpace.com and am enjoying every lovin' spoonful!

So I guess if you want to see some up-to-date stuff about me, go on over to www.myspace.com/perno

I guarantee you'll have a mediocre time!

Go Bears, Go Sox, Go Cubs, Go Devil Rays, and Go Storm (Arena Football)

2 More Wins!

Holy cow, this is getting so exciting!  Me, Jonesy, and the wifey were watching game 2 of the World Series at our local watering hole here in Palm Harbor, FL.  There was a Houston fan telling us "we gonna kick y'all's ass!" in a fun little southern twang...but Pauly showed up by belting a grand slam, and then THE NEW little hurt, Scott Podsednik hit his 2nd HR of the postseason.  Very exciting stuff!

 

I've got tickets to Game 6, but I hope they win it before then.  All this stress is killing me!

 

Go White Sox!

 

White Sox Lose

What a terrible showing by the Pale-Hose last night.  Contreras pitched a gem after he got out of the 3rd inning,  but with all those bonehead plays, they definitely didn't deserve to win.  Must have been all that time off. 

 

Oh well, still 8 more wins until a championship, and hopefully that number goes down one tonight.

It's about time!

How about them White Sox? Since it was the Red Sox winning it all last year, maybe the White Sox can find a way this year. I'm from Chicago and I'm a Cubs AND Sox fan. 51% Cubs, 49% Sox. The only time I root against the Sox is when they play the Cubs, and that's only a couple series per year.

Why must I be crucified for loving both Chicago teams? I think more people should take up my line of thinking.

Who do I have to know?

How the hell can I get myself to pop up on a Google search? Of all people in the world, I should be able to pop up on a Google search within the first few pages. When I Google "Mike Pernecky", it's all about some imposter from California. Ok, so he's not an imposter, maybe I'm the imposter.

But either way, I'll bet he can't get chicks like I can!

Oh I've also attached a picture of Aubrey, my friend's cousin. Damn she's a hottie!

Just to clarify...

I just wanted to take a second to let everyone know...I ain't no hollaback girl. 

 

Now that we have that all cleared up, I'd like to say how excited I am to have my little buddy Jonesy moving down here to Florida from Chicago.  Good times will be had by all.  Can't wait to take the little feller to his first Devil Rays game, and show him what a real baseball stadium looks like. 

 

Tampa Bay Bucs tickets go on sale soon, so I can go see the Bears whoop up on the Bucs...while getting a sunburn!  Can't wait!

Pokerstars.com

So I finally got my money onto Pokerstars.com through Neteller so I can start losing some money playing No Limit Holdem poker online. Every person I talk to that plays poker online wins money. Is that really possible? Would the people that lose money playing poker please stand up? And put one of those fingers on each hand up?

Allison and I are thinking of getting another dog, but we decided against it until we move into an actual house, and I start winning my money on this new-fangled poker dealy. Well we'll see how it goes!

Technology!

I'm actually e-mailing this post to my blog!  How crazy that this is possible.  This will make it so much easier to post messages and stuff.  Apparently I have to post onto other people's blogs in order to get them to come to mine.  Interesting.  Kind of like how if you don't share on a peer-to-peer network, people don't let you download from them.

 

Anyone else get infected by this Aurora - Part of the ABI network spyware thingy?  I just downloaded the thing on mypctuneup.com and it took it right out. 

 

Oh and Jaylo, soon there will be pictures of me with the donkey.  I have to scan them to file first.