Happy Anniversary, Juliet!! FWIW, I’ve been married for 35 years, and I get the same forever/just yesterday feelings. Maybe it would be different if I could just get him fully trained… 
Happy anniversary, Juliet! May you and Romeo and the little ones live happily ever after (we won’t mention that guy Shakespeare…)
Nava and Doggio, I think I’ll wait for Jovian sizes…
swampy my friend, I hate to tell you it’s not getting less stupid; your brain is becoming numb from it…
ruble, loved Holmes County when i lived there. Some might good restaurants that way.
Slept until 0800 this morning, then folded and put away all the towels, so laundry is completed for the rest of this month.
Only other thing worth noting is that I am peeing (it’s allowed to say peeing here, isn’t it?) it seems every hour or two, nothing abnormal in the act, just a steady need to go, especially when I stand up after sitting for a couple of hours. Not sure if it is a problem but if it continues I guess I’ll go see a Doctor.
Raisin bread time.
Okay, I’m back.
Stupid mouse ran back out from under the dishwasher, just to be caught again to be let go again to be caught again, again, and again.
I try to get the cat to take them outside so I don’t have a wounded mouse dying somewhere in the house. Behind the fridge is bad enough, under the dishwasher would be pretty bad since I’m not up to moving the dishwasher out to clean behind it.
Anyway, poor little mousie is now dead.
Happy Anniversary Juliet.
Hope you feel better Nava.
How’s the new furniture Butters?
Groceries have been ordered and are scheduled to be picked up at 3. Then I can go get Ripple, and then back to irk. Usually I don’t pick him up until 6ish, but the alley is still a bit icy and the back sidewalk is a bit icy, so I’d rather do it before dark. This getting old shit is not convenient.
Ohio, especially for motorcycles, is just great. Mostly flat, the vast majority of roads are east-west or north-south which makes senseless rides with no map easy, lots of great places to eat and things to see (like the worlds largest coo-coo clock) — just everything you could basically ask for. I was coming back from a friends in Lakeville and stumbled across this Mexican place in the middle of nothing that had far and away the best food I’ve had. The name was something-with-Patron or a variation of something like that. Five star quality and biker cheap. The problem is that every time you visit Ohio you find some place like that and often you can’t find them a second time. It makes for an adventure every time.
Besides ---- the Amish kids always hoot and wave at Bessie. 
[FONT=“Impact”]HAPPY ANNIVERSARY![/FONT]
II’ll buy you a tiny one to go with it, but not right now. Io you one later.
Well, that’s shitty.
American, European.
Happy Shakespeareaversary!
::Pictures Sari scolding A Dam to stop playing with his food:: 
GF was essentially ‘fired’…as/after she gave notice. (as in, he bitched that she was leaving him in a lerch, but then he didn’t want her two weeks notice.) :smack:
Thank you for the well wishes, everyone.
Sari, you are way more kind to vermin that I would be. I’m all DIE SUCKERS DIE when those cute little mousies get in my house. Mice wrecked my last dishwasher. They would crawl back there because it’s warm, then nibble on the water supply hoses to get water. By the time we noticed that our dishwasher wasn’t performing up to par, they chewed up so much of it back there that we had to replace it. The whole debacle took weeks, between trying to catch/kill them, shopping for a new dishwasher and getting it installed, return trips from the exterminators, etc.
Oh believe me, I wish death on every one of them, along with the bushy tailed tree rats.
I hope that is not the reason my dishwasher isn’t working as well as it should.
I’m afraid to pull it out to look/clean behind it because it’s not as simple as pulling out the fridge or the stove. The one thing I am happy about is that so far the mice have not been getting into my cabinets.
It seems like we get rid of them for a while and them wham, we have them again.
I should probably get an exterminator, but everybody I know who gets one just gets mice back again. I can’t use poison because of the cat and dog.
Myers Briggs and its ilk (Insights, colors, etc) are completely bogus. My fellow liberrian has much research into the validity of these tests and found nothing. There is a recent book about it “The Personality Brokers” which show how whacked Myers and Briggs (mother and daughter) were. You may notice I feel strongly about these types of tests. Total B.S.
Plus it’s pretty easy for almost anyone to force the personality type they want by how they answer the questions - they’re kinda obvious…
Happy anniversary Juliet and Romeo. We are at 35 years and i get the same feeling.
This stupid government shut down is affecting people I know and love. There are lots of Coast Guard here. One is one of my clerks. The other is a manager I share the building with. She just sent me a text and photos that she is selling some of her Coach bags. This is so needless and stupid. Grand High Cheeto be damned. I hate him. I offered my girl a loan if necessary but she says they have savings to last a while. Since they live in base housing they do not have to pay rent until they receive back pay. The local bank and credit union is also offering interest free loans to them. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!11!!!
My new furniture is very nice. I am in love with it. Not so much last night as I got so aggravated having to partially assemble it. That experience will cause me to not buy from that particular store again.
I interviewed at NoSuchAgency many years ago and had to take the psych test. Stupid T/F questions like I can talk to squirrels I have seen pink elephants The government is spying on me and they asked all of them multiple times.
The test gave me the giggles.
Most of their tests gave me the giggles.
Then they offered me a job at 2/3 the pay I was already making, and it was nights and weekends too. They seemed a bit surprised I turned it down. Sure, let me take a pay cut and work nights and weekends. Maybe I flunked the psych test.
It’s supposedly about finding patterns in how people answer. Even in questions that appear to be nonsense.
Suppose you check the results on a large sample of tests and find that ten percent of the people who take the test answer true to the question “My favorite color is yellow.” Now you check the results of people who were later found to be stealing office supplies and you find that fifty percent of them answered true to that question.
That doesn’t mean that liking the color yellow makes you steal office supplies. It doesn’t even mean that people who steal office supplies actually like yellow. Maybe their actual favorite color is blue and they’re just lying about it. But the connection is there often enough to be statistically significant.
It could quite possibly be the reason. We had only seen one mouse when we noticed that our dishwasher wasn’t getting the top rack of dishes clean. Didn’t connect the two. Then the repairman came out to look at the dishwasher and found a ton of mice crap behind it and the chewed on tubes. He said in his experience, the two biggest causes for washing machine failure are age of the appliance and rodents. The just love the heat generated by the running machine and the water they get by chewing on the tubing.
In our experience, the exterminator did a good job. They sealed up the house and set traps in the first visit. Then, they came back a week later and removed the dead mice from the attic traps we couldn’t easily get to and replaced the attic traps. They came back a month later and changed out those traps, but most of them were empty after that first week. That was a couple years ago (Romeo Jr. was just a baby), and the mice haven’t returned.
We have a rat in the garage where I have some aquariums and plants. He is eating plant seedlings! Meat in a trap was ignored. It was set off when loaded with broccoli and carrots, but he escaped, and I’ll probably not get him to come near a trap again.
Perhaps I will leave the cats down there overnight.
I have found the best bait is cheese in a can.
Now you have me worried** Juliet**, it’s the top rack that is not getting so clean.
I guess we are going to have to watch some videos and pull the dishwasher out.
They can mess up cars too. They chewed the wires under the hood in my fathers van, and messed up the alternator in one of my cars.
Not just rats, you have the most annoying kind; vegan rats. They’ll be squeaking at you about the environmental impact of beef soon. (No offence to actual vegans, except the ones who shoehorn it into every conversation, they’re free to take offence).
Mind you, after the last few days over 'ere, maybe I’ll be looking for rat recipes soon. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is starting to look positively sensible as a governing method…
I’m suffering from assignment confusion: I figured I was about at the point where I’d said all I wanted to say in the experiment writeup we have to hand in soon. Today I discussed it a bit with classmates, and they all seem to have between 2 and 5 times the word count I have. Are they waffling, or am I missing out loads? 
Oh, Dear G-d…
heh last time we had a mouse it was outside and the cat brought it in ……
princess surly loves to run outside and shes an inside cat she darted outside and back in really quick with something in her mouth…it was a typical desert mouse …and in typical cat fashion let it loose for playtime and our other 3 cats joined in until my aunt picked it up by the tail…banged it against the trash can …cats were pissed ……
The last mouse my cat drug in was very much alive and escaped and set up housekeeping in the linen closet. During it’s time there it chewed holes in a brand new set of sheets still in the package. This was when we got rid of the cat door. She cannot be trusted with her own door anymore.
Home, chilly and sleepy. We shall sup upon homemade soup provided by a neighbor so that shall be easy peasy and quick and not much mess.