Thanks, and don't sweat Tokyo. Tokyo's business-as-usual. Up north got rocked hard, and it's gonna be ugly for a long time up there, including the Nikon and Canon factories. They need all the help they can get up there.
Spiders are patient. He was all of a whopping half-centimeter across. Maybe a whole centimeter. I set up my camera, which scared him away, and then I left and came back 10 minutes later, when he had returned to his spot... and my camera was ready for him :)