Snake!!

While walking through the dessert I came across another snake. Once my heart stopped beating so hard after I made sure it wasn't a rattle snake I was able to enjoy my experience a little more. This guy was about 5' long and pretty fat, he had been eating well.
So what do you do when you come across a snake like this that you are pretty sure isn't poisonous? You try to pick it up of course. Well I started by picking up his tail and that went ok. He started shaking it like a rattler and that's when I realized that he wasn't poisonous. I started picking up his tail and slowly working up his body but I must have his a sore spot because he didn't like that at all. He coiled up just like a rattler and got in to a position to strike. (I didn't get a good picture of that.)
Anyway, after he did that I decided to leave him alone. Enjoy the pictures from my encounter.

From My Pictures

From My Pictures

From My Pictures

From My Pictures

It's been a while

Sorry for the long delay to all (both) you readers out there. I've been very busy traveling for work and catching up with all my home chores while I'm there. Because it's been over a month, let me get you caught up.

...Have really started to enjoy running while at the hotel and quickly learned that my shoes were worn out. I bought a new pair and splurged for a pair of Nike Shox. I love them, well worth the $100. They have a slot to insert a sensor that connects to your iPod so you can track your distance, pace, calories, and progress during the run. Well, I had to get that too. One problem, I didn't have an iPod. So, I sold some old phones and my current mp3 player and got a nano refurb from apple. Again, I really like this thing. It was a great set of purchases.

...Jessica upgraded her phone to a MyTouch. I'm really jealous and am just going to leave it at that.

...Signed up for Netflix. If you haven't done so yet, you need to. RIGHT NOW. Its great and has a wonderful user interface.

...Shaved my head to the scalp while in the desert but decided it's too much work to do it every day so I'm going to keep a little stubble.

...Read a couple of books, The Noticer, Execution (management book), A brief History of Time (Science book), The Lie (creation book), half way through The Change Function, and a couple of chapters into Biblical Doctrine. Hard to believe I actually like to read now.

Thats going to have to be enough for now.
Thanks for reading,
Chris