Rep Retirement Lodge 92: Let's Keep SiouxTechie Out

[hockeybando]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 92: Let's Keep SiouxTechie Out

Yuck.
Remember if you use poison and cannot find the carcass you could be in for a smelly several weeks.

Go and get the sticky "humane" traps.
Put some peanut butter in the middle of the sticky stuff.
The harder they fight the worse they get stuck.
And if another comes along, it's a two-for-one.

Decided against poison right away for that very reason. Sticky traps, in my experience, have worked the best. My sophomore year our dorm room was infested with mice and they set a bunch of sticky traps and they worked like a charm... except when they got caught at 3am and woke me up with their incessant squeaking.

Someone from maintenance is coming by hopefully tomorrow to seal up where we think they're getting in. There are only two possible places, and we sealed one off ourselves but the other one we can't get to without using tools to take the runners off the drawers. As renters, I think that kind of thing falls under the landlords' responsibility.

The GOOD thing is that they're in a few isolated areas, and they aren't getting into our food or anything like that. And as far as we can tell, they haven't been into the actual kitchen, just into the drawers and under our sink and where we keep our pots and pans (they're all connected to the same space).

I hear that the ctf likes to lick the PB off sometimes also.

Oh snap.

 

[nmupiccdiva]

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Decided against poison right away for that very reason. Sticky traps, in my experience, have worked the best. My sophomore year our dorm room was infested with mice and they set a bunch of sticky traps and they worked like a charm... except when they got caught at 3am and woke me up with their incessant squeaking.

Someone from maintenance is coming by hopefully tomorrow to seal up where we think they're getting in. There are only two possible places, and we sealed one off ourselves but the other one we can't get to without using tools to take the runners off the drawers. As renters, I think that kind of thing falls under the landlords' responsibility.

The GOOD thing is that they're in a few isolated areas, and they aren't getting into our food or anything like that. And as far as we can tell, they haven't been into the actual kitchen, just into the drawers and under our sink and where we keep our pots and pans (they're all connected to the same space).



Oh snap.

Uhmmm... was this when you were living in West? 'Cause I don't remember any mice...

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

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'Cause I don't remember any mice...

I hear they taste just like chicken!!!

Sorry, had to...

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

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Having picked up the phone and made a well-placed call here and there [one of which may have been placed to an associate of mine by the name of Mr. Vinnie The Hacksaw ], and having filled the various ears on the other end of phone calls with some carefully worded, workplace-related invective, topped off with a believeable threat or two, I am now at liberty and happy to report that--VOILA--the Shots' three day weekend ski trip is back on the docket.

In other words, Mrs. Shot put her foot down? It's ok, we won't think any less of you just because she wears the pants in your house!

 

[CollegeHockeyAddict]

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In other words, Mrs. Shot put her foot down? It's ok, we won't think any less of you just because she wears the pants in your house!

Just remember the best recipe for fun is to not argue about who is wearing the pants. Down with pants. Up with fun.

 

[hockeybando]

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Uhmmm... was this when you were living in West? 'Cause I don't remember any mice...

Oh, haha. Yeah, when I was in West, before I moved in by you.

It was pretty nasty, though. Housing was supposedly "dealing with it", but after the 3am wake-up call from under my bed I sent a nasty e-mail to Carl Holm and he said he didn't know anything about it because nobody told him, but they'd have someone over ASAP. He did, too. I found five or six mice stuck in those traps, and there were more even than that. What they did, though, was stuff steel wool into the hole where they were coming in and that seemed to do the trick. Apparently they don't chew through the stuff (not that I blame them, haha).

 

[Scarlet]

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I'm watching an old episode of Seinfeld that I don't think I've ever seen. I thought I remembered all of them.

 

[hockeyplayer1015]

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We just went out to the Houghton Breakers with one of his friends because there's a Lakeshore Flood Warning predicting 25 foot waves. Weren't quite that high, but they were pretty interesting. And PB got soaked.

Was just looking at the forecasts for the lakes, looks like upwards of 18 or so up that way, but they're saying 24's on Erie tonight around 2200. Having been in 25's on the ocean 2 summers ago, that's not fun at all.

http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/glcfs.php?lake=l&ext=wv&type=F&hr=03

 

[DaveStPaul]

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Moron alert: Beware of the knucklehead trying to go north (up a pretty good hill) on Cretin Ave. from Marshall in a 09 Mustang.

See, if he's just going into Murderapolis, you go across the Lake St. Bridge and take the West River Parkway. That's always pretty open during the snow. And no big hills. (Less fun as a spectator, I suppose. )

My dad could always fall asleep on the floor.

Mine too. Like clockwork.

Bacon for lunch here as well as I had the leftovers of pasta carbonara that I made earlier this week.

Hey!, we got the leftover tortellini with bacon, peas and cream for lunch.

I like the old fashioned spring traps. Breaks their neck real quick, you hear it go off and know it's time to empty the trap. They're cheap, easy to set, use peanut butter for bait. No poison to worry about, no smelly carcass behind the wall or in the drawer or cabinet base.

First time we did that, we set the trap, and went to bed. Barely five minutes later, we hear from the kitchen, SNAP! Then silence. Then, Shhhhhhht -- Shhhhhht -- Shhhhht. The mouse was still mostly alive, and the sound was the trap being slowly dragged behind him. It was brutal.

 

[Nathan]

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Drive-by. Hi.

 

[thecomicbookguy]

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This place sucks and my feet, shoes, and surrounding desk area smell thanks to my shoes getting wet due to the stupid weather.



But I'm having steak for dinner

I think that's about the one positive of today - my feet didn't get wet (yet; I still have more shoveling). I suppose I could also say that I didn't have to shovel out of my parking spot at work. Everything else, though? Pretty *y.

If you can't drive more than 10 mph on a snowy road, stay the * home. I passed a CRV(!!!). I'm in a Civic. I passed this guy, accelerated up to 30mph, and had no problems. This guy hit the brakes every time the wind blew. 40 minute drive took nearly 2 hours.

I can't get the mail that came in over the weekend, because it contained a package that filled my mailbox. It's being held at the branch office, which is only open from 9am-4pm (brilliant, btw - why be open when people could actually go there?). I asked a buddy to pick it up for me, as he works from home. Instead of just going in and telling them I asked him to get it, he tries to be me, which might have worked, except they asked for ID...just like it says on the little slip they left. All he had to do was sign my name to it (kicking myself for forgetting to do that ), then write his name in the little "authorized agent" field (just like I asked him), and he could have presented his own ID.

And then, I get home, and find that the city has once again left my street for last. Hasn't been touched. It's almost 6:30, and it's been raining since midday. Yeah, my road was filled with slush, up to my bumper. Couldn't get up my driveway, got stuck in the road. Plow truck finally went by just as I got stuck, and just kept going (thanks). Some neighbors helped get me into my driveway. Plow truck didn't come back through the neighborhood for about 30 minutes, at which point I stopped shoveling because I just can't deal with it right now. They way my neighborhood is laid out, when they plow, I end up with a massive snowbank at the foot of my driveway (because they can't push the snow across the street, for some reason ).

And this post is normal, because honestly, I'm sick of the Size 7 font. Stupid gimmick; it's run its course.

 

[bigmrg74]

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Mr just took off to drive L'il to school as he was at the bus stop for the last 30 minutes and no bus. School started 15 minutes ago. The real tragedy is that they made choc chip cookies in Consumer class yest and he has that 1st period. He is not happy. All the cookies are going to be gone

I would be mad too about missing out on cookies.

I'm glad I made my drive to Adrian before 7:30. Had just started snowing...roads were fine.
Only saw one car still in the ditch this morning. The rain cleared the roads off pretty well.


So, today at work has been fairly entertaining. Everyone is so paranoid about lay-offs that it's become a s**tshow of people trying to do each other's jobs and thinly vailing that they think everyone else is a moron. Today is a good day to sit back and watch everyone else be stupid. If only I could have an adult beverage while I do so.

Probably the best bet is to not care anymore, and all the idiots running around will get canned.

It got down to business at about 9:30 last night. The power flipped on a few times just before 10. I turned the lights off at midnight and the living room glowed from the snow outside. I thought the porch lights were still on. By the time 7:30 rolled around it was all gone and everything was wet. It was just that temperature where you were probably okay to drive, this is also nearly the exact weather where I wrecked my last truck on black ice.

Snow turned to rain, and now it's going to blow all day and freeze just after dark, and stay that way for a while. Low of 17, high of 17 tomorrow.

We had one hiccup in power a little before noon, would have thought there would have been more with some of the howling wind we've had today. It was pretty interesting out in the barn this evening listening to the wind rattle every slightly loose piece of tin siding on it. Did manage to get the big door on the south side of the Arena shut tonight. Thought that I would have to fight like hell to pull it close, or worse, have to dig a path for it because it hasn't been shut in a long while. Manage to catch a lull in the wind and got it done easy.

 

[kdilks]

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And this post is normal, because honestly, I'm sick of the Size 7 font. Stupid gimmick; it's run its course.

And all this time I thought you were just whispering...

 

[hockeybando]

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And this post is normal, because honestly, I'm sick of the Size 7 font. Stupid gimmick; it's run its course.

Lame. There are only 22 days left of the year. Quitter!

 

[bostonewe]

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Lame. There are only 22 days left of the year. Quitter!

C'mon - can you imagine that post in Size 7!?

 

[CollegeHockeyAddict]

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C'mon - can you imagine that post in Size 7!?

I think that's about the one positive of today - my feet didn't get wet (yet; I still have more shoveling). I suppose I could also say that I didn't have to shovel out of my parking spot at work. Everything else, though? Pretty *y.

If you can't drive more than 10 mph on a snowy road, stay the * home. I passed a CRV(!!!). I'm in a Civic. I passed this guy, accelerated up to 30mph, and had no problems. This guy hit the brakes every time the wind blew. 40 minute drive took nearly 2 hours.

I can't get the mail that came in over the weekend, because it contained a package that filled my mailbox. It's being held at the branch office, which is only open from 9am-4pm (brilliant, btw - why be open when people could actually go there?). I asked a buddy to pick it up for me, as he works from home. Instead of just going in and telling them I asked him to get it, he tries to be me, which might have worked, except they asked for ID...just like it says on the little slip they left. All he had to do was sign my name to it (kicking myself for forgetting to do that ), then write his name in the little "authorized agent" field (just like I asked him), and he could have presented his own ID.

And then, I get home, and find that the city has once again left my street for last. Hasn't been touched. It's almost 6:30, and it's been raining since midday. Yeah, my road was filled with slush, up to my bumper. Couldn't get up my driveway, got stuck in the road. Plow truck finally went by just as I got stuck, and just kept going (thanks). Some neighbors helped get me into my driveway. Plow truck didn't come back through the neighborhood for about 30 minutes, at which point I stopped shoveling because I just can't deal with it right now. They way my neighborhood is laid out, when they plow, I end up with a massive snowbank at the foot of my driveway (because they can't push the snow across the street, for some reason ).

And this post is normal, because honestly, I'm sick of the Size 7 font. Stupid gimmick; it's run its course.

 

[CollegeHockeyAddict]

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Now we don't have to imagine what it would be like.

 

[nmupiccdiva]

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Well, GHS closed for tomorrow. There goes a sub day.

 

[A Shot and a Goal]

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In other words, Mrs. Shot put her foot down? It's ok, we won't think any less of you just because she wears the pants in your house!

Don't mess with me Katzie. I know where you live and I may have a few of the guys from Brom pay you a visit.

 

[Beer Pong Horn]

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Well, GHS closed for tomorrow. There goes a sub day.

The Yoopers are getting soft.


And I'd like to echo that drivers are idiots. Traffic on I-35W northbound never exceeded 55 mph (Granted, there were 3 accidents, but the roads weren't really that bad so I don't know why.)