*snrt*

Excellent. I approve. ^_^
(Enigma does not, but I disturbed her to type this, /and/ I am cackling.. there are not sufficient skritchies to fix this, by her measure..)

.. I am genuinely curious. Why?

This is one of those 'sounds useful, please elaborate, for it has not yet become a thing of necessity in my domicile' sort of questions. ^^;

That is the traditional means, IIRC...

Pointillism?
Might take me a little while to figure out how to do that with all the legs, but it would probably improve control, so.. bonus?

Hrmn. Although, thumbs are useful in general... hrmn. Tentacle fingers? (a real thing someone came up with!).

At this point, I'd take one of those brain-in-a-jar spider walker things..

*drops off a ball of yarn*

.. I'm sure that guy in the maze won't need it.

I keep pot holders in a basket stashed out of immediate cat range (.. normal cat range; I'm not taking bets on piss-terrorist capabilities), but hooks on the wall.. I may steal that.

Oh, right. Time. At least ten years.
Several in Oregon, various places, no snakes.
The odd bird (not counting chickens), but no snakes.

WA. No snakes.
One lizard. One very horrified squirrel (lived). At least one sizable rat (did /not/ live).

.. I have cats. At least one of them understood what to do with caught prey (Jasper, rest her fluffy soul, was an /excellent mouser/, so.... um. Yeh.

*cough*
Grave of the Fireflies.

You and me both.
My mother had some interesting ideas about what I should read, but the short list of no did not include that one. Or the Dragonriders of Pern, which in retrospect, holyshitballs...

... is it bad that I just realised that a lot of really REALLY hot peppers seem to be small and super-wrinkly..?

.. Rude of them.