The Not Happy Thread

Wasnt trying to feed it
Was trying to see if i was crazy or not. I put a few pieces of kibble in the middle of the floor and hid behind a door for a few minutes. Lil sucker ran right on out.

No wonder my dog wasnt touching her food bowl! The mouse was stealing from it

 

Invest in sticky traps and place them anywhere and everywhere you think mice will be. I had mice issues a couple months ago, and managed to catch them in some traps, while one remains missing...and shows up when I let my guard down... I think they were coming from inside my walls, but I still haven't figured it out. I don't recommend poison or else you'll have a stinky scavenger hunt later. I especially don't recommend it if you have pets that'll get into anything. And bars of Irish spring soap, as well as dryer sheets, are suppose to keep mice away, according to everyone I ask. I don't know for sure, but it's worth a shot. I wish you luck!

 

All too often, mice become trap-wise and end up eating the peanut butter without setting off the trap. Unfortunately, once your place becomes infested, a regular visit by an exterminator is the only remedy.

 

Or nuking the place from orbit. It is the only way to be sure, after all

 

Ha! That's great!

Reminds me of this:

How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink (heretical.com)

 

Sadly, I won't live long enough to see personal orbiting nukes. I have my list of targets, though.

 

Told coworkers about my uninvited guests. The responses were so nonchalant:
"Oh that happens"
"Yep. Winter"
"You just learn to live with them"

WTF!? is this friggin common up north in the winter??
Holy crap! I need to move back down south...

I am in no way afraid of rodents. They are cute and i've had pet rats before. But wild rodents? It just makes me feel dirty and like i failed at basic domestic duties ... Im still beating myself up over this. After work, i'll be doing some big shopping.... Food containers, disinfectant, traps.....

 

Your coworkers are insane. Those things are disease vectors. You should not learn to live with them.

 

We had a mouse exactly once, on my birthday in 1999. I remember that because I heard the cats going berserkererer (3x normal kitty berserk) in the middle of the night and when I got up, one of them proudly presented it to me. That was the only time though.

 

Oh hells yeah!! My neighbor's cats dig little holes in my yard and kill the moles, leave their little perforated bodies lying on my sidewalk as a present. Better holes than moles!

 

I don't want to see anyone. Today is the third fucking holiday party I've hosted in the last month, Thursday being the fourth and final, and I'm very tired of seeing anybody. My work at work has achieved -273.15C, but I'm good at hiding that, and I have absolutely no initiative. This week will be hard to get through. This becomes the problem when you assume the role of host and mediator because you have the better area. Suddenly everyone becomes dependent on you and it makes you dislike all of them. The season will pass, but I needed to vent.

 

The grass is always greener. Tomorrow marks one year since I've seen my coworkers at my main job. True, I hate many of them, and I'm kind of introverted, but just like cacti need water occasionally, a little bit of human contact in my native language would be nice.

Want me to fly out and host party #4 for you? I'll ask Mrs. A if she minds taking you to dinner someplace halfway decent here.

Oh, and absolute zero is pretty damned impressive. Keep pushing and you could redefine the laws of physics

 

Don't get me started lol. 90% of conversations become deja vu. I try and remember the days when I wasn't the host, but there aren't many. My context is very different, as you can imagine...

 

I caught the mouse

He looked so scared, but there was nothing i could do. The maintenance man at work told me to use sticky traps and to be prepared for the outcome.

Im sad....

 

My sympathy to you both.

 

I guess karma came to get me for complaining about too many people. My dad had an asthma attack while alone in the house, but at least was able to call 911. Currently in the hospital intubated and under anesthesia. I hope all is well. I'm done with the year. I just sort of left work early today and I think I'll just write in hours tomorrow. I don't much care right now.

 

Damn, I hope he recovers thoroughly and quickly. Lousy year for that sort of issue, my thoughts are with you.

 

I'm so sorry. I wish you and your dad all the very best and hope he gets well soon. Take care!

 

sorry to hear about your dad, hope he gets better soon.

 

Ah crap! My hamburger went bad, looks like no Christmas chili cheese dogs! That's ok, the deer and raccoons will eat it (it wasn't totally bad, but I ain't gonna eat it!) I'll get more after Christmas and move the cheese-dog feastage to then. For now it's just regular dogs (hot dogs I mean).

 

another $250 into that damn furnace. It’s only been about a week.

 

When my furnace was on the fritz last year I spent a lot of time in a zero-degree rated sleeping bag, sitting in front of the computer or the TV as well as sleeping. I practically lived in it. And when you have to emerge, layer and bundle, then right back into the warmth-cocoon.

 

I go from the kotatsu (heated coffee table basically) to the computer desk with a desk heater (same thing). As long as your lower body is warm it keeps the rest of you pretty warm as well.

 

I have a kerosene heater that works pretty well, but I think I’ve spent more this month on kerosene than I have on the gas bill. It’s just been my good fortune the repair guys have been able to fix the furnace without too much hassle.

 

I also used a propane heater and made fires in the fireplace, but neither one lasted very long at a stretch. The fireplace would last about a half hour to an hour, longer if I would bring in load after load of wood, and I didn't run the propane heater more than about 15 minutes or until my throat started to feel scratchy, because the fumes build up in the air and can cause serious health problems. The same is true for a kerosene heater, so be careful. Eventually I stopped messing with both fireplace and propane heater and just used the sleeping bag.