What is pissing you off this time?

[Griff]

Well sure but you like humans, what about the rest of us?

[footfootfoot]

[BigV]

[monster]

time for ickle kitty, Slick would approve

[Gravdigr]

Ya ever washed all your silverware, by hand?

Sheesh.

[glatt]

And the drawer too, I hope?

[Gravdigr]

Wiped, washed, soaked w/Lysol. As was the silverware organizer. I woulda tossed the organizer, but it's oak, and the finish is still highly glossy, so it got the treatment, too.

Maybe we'll get by with no mouse-shit-transferrable diseases.

[glatt]

How many traps are set around the house?

[Gravdigr]

One ol' fashioned neck snapper, one sticky trap.

[Snakeadelic]

I once found myself incredibly offended to realize that, while I lived in a place that had 27 feral cats spread between 2.5 acres of properties, THERE WERE MICE IN MY FKKN HOUSE.

27.

Feral.

Cats.

I put out neck-snappers, caught nothing with cheese, nothing with peanut butter and that's usually the go-to for luring those little vermin.

I had to use BUTTER. Not peanut butter, dairy-based butter! I realized that when I got up one morning, saw the little (so many unladylike words) dive under the top of the propane-powered stove, and saw the little teeth marks in a dab of butter that had gotten left out.

So if nothing else works, use butter for bait and see if that does the trick.

[Snakeadelic]

And what's actually up my proverbial butt today is this:

Okay, so a major restaurant chain, Chipotle (where my neighbor's parents eat at least once a week, often with other family members; we don't have one in this county and I'm not sure about the rest of the state), just announced a massive data theft from non-chip card readers. This has, understandably, weakened faith in the security of ANY system involving magnetic-strip cards (like the bank card I have, because my bank can't afford chip cards yet).

Also like my EBT benefits card, which is how I access my (no doubt doomed by this latest federal budget gutting all such programs for military and border wall spending) food stamps, aka SNAP benefits.

The state just decided it'd be a brilliant plan to require SNAP recipients to sign up with a THIRD PARTY, non-state-run website in order to be able to check their balance online.

For most people, it's annoying. For me, it's panic-attack-triggering. I'm supposed to trust some 3rd party, whose Terms of Service I read and really didn't find myself comfortable with, to track how I use federally-issued benefits? They already had that contained in a tidy little state-run app that's been working great for SIX YEARS. Now, despite the fact that the dental "surgery" last fall has permanently damaged my hearing even more, I get to start using the (unladylike words) automated operator before I can go food shopping. Every time I need to go food shopping, which is like twice a week when I'm still dealing with 3 different medically restricted diets on my shopping list! And between my terrible timing with conversations by phone and my hearing loss, it's the phone or hope nobody hacks this third-party benefit tracker!

[Snakeadelic]

And Grav, I feel your dishwashing pain. Literally. I washed ALL the dishes by hand for 30 years, from the time I was 10 and was informed that dishes were now my chore until the cracked, swollen, purple, bleeding knuckles were diagnosed as dermatitis eczema and my doc told me when I was 40 that I was no longer to be putting my hands in hot soapy water routinely if I didn't want my skin to start peeling off.

I'd love it if someone would invent an apartment-affordable dishwasher that didn't leave that nasty white sticky-oily scurf all over "clean" dishes no matter what soap gets used. My neighbor does use his dishwasher (we barely remember to run it a couple times a year for the sake of the pipes) and half the time I have to make him hand-wash that crap off because I don't care if YOU think it's clean, if I can scrape sticky crap off it I am NOT putting my food on it!

[sexobon]

What did the online reviews for that make and model say?

[Gravdigr]

They said that Gravdigr shoulda read some damn reviews, that's what they said.

Where was you when I was counting money?

[lumberjim]

Catch any mice yet? We've had a minor ant invasion here. And the bathroom sink faucet is all clogged up. Annoying while washing hands, but forgettable as soon as you leave the room. It's been getting worse for a couple months. Might tackle that today on my extra day off.