Promiseland

[Fetian]

Jumped back into Oblivion for a bit, obviously, but bounced off it after an hour or so. Instead I jumped onto Recettear, which hit such a good gameplay loop for my brain that the next thing I knew it was like 4 AM.

 
Very weirdly the person hosting the conlang relay hasn't said anything since asking the participant who had the torch last week how it was going, on Saturday -- the forum doesn't think they've visited the site since then. The person who is supposed to be the next participant, for this week, also hasn't been on, and no one has said boo in that thread at all. I do hope everyone is okay

[Fetian]

Sor don't read this post (rodentia)

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So last night Cael had some weird interest in a corner of my bathroom, and today Oz had the same interest, and when cats come to consensus on something being Weird that means there's something there. So I took a look and sure enough there was a fucking mouse in my bathroom

And that was my afternoon basically, was trying to figure out how to get it out of my bathroom without endangering myself or the cats, and trying to figure out how it got in there in the first place, and if it were possible there were more somewhere in the house.

The short of it is that we think it got in through the hole in the wall the toilet's plumbing goes through, because the cover on that was loose, so we (well, ash) caulked that up and hopefully it won't get back in. We're going to start trapping around the outside of the house again, though I don't know how much help that'll be if they're in our walls. But also, don't really know what else we could do.

We didn't find any signs of infestation anywhere in the house -- no droppings or chewed cables or food or anything, and the animals haven't been Weirdly Interested in any particular part of the house before or since the one in the bathroom. So we're hopefully good.

[Fetian]

I bought Oz some wet food to incorporate into her meals, to try to get her appetite up, and it's supposed to arrive tomorrow, but tomorrow I'm heading back down to the clinic to give the doctors more of my blood, so hopefully it doesn't get delivered while no one is home and have to sit around in the heat for too long.

[Fetian]

So I discovered yesterday when I went back to Oblivion that when you uninstall, and then re-install it, it resets all of its settings to default, which is. Really annoying. Because obviously I would rather not have to keep changing the settings back to what I want them to be but also it is 120GB

I am trying very hard to update ESO but between it (also an unconscionably large game) and Oblivion I have 0 disc space left for it to download said update. I just had to delete like, a couple MB of old files to make enough room for the deck to function

I do need to go to sleep in a minute here, so I'll deal with this more tomorrow, but dang. Can we go back to respecting users' disk space please?

[Fetian]

At least ESO frees up some of its reserved space when it's done installing, Oblivion just continues being 120GB forever

[Fetian]

(as above)

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Cael found another hole, and his interest in it suggests there are mice in there. I've blocked it off with a ball of foil and duct tape holding it in place, the thinking is that mice are hopefully unlikely to chew through foil? But obviously a more permanent blockage will need to be arranged tomorrow when it's not 3 AM

On top of that I've discovered the sole on my "new" shoe is falling off. So I'm having a great night.

I've asked ash to reschedule my makeup blood exam, given everything but especially not wanting to leave the cats unsupervised all day. Unfortunately I tried to be smart and take a melatonin before laying in bed trying to sleep for an hour, so I'm going to be groggy tomorrow anyway.

Hopefully rescheduling doesn't cause any issues, I am worried about it. The person who called me about it seemed real relieved when I suggested Thursday (she'd asked if I could do Wednesday, first) so I'm worried it having to wait a week will make a problem for their lab or my insurance or something.

Anyway. Sleep.

[Fetian]

As above

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I can hear them scrabbling around in the walls, looking for another way out

I don't know if I'm actually sleeping at all tonight

[erikavonkaiser]

wtf what brand of shoes is doing you dirty like that?

(I won't comment on other stuff outside of spoiler tags but if you need some no thoughts head empty distraction time soon lemme know and we can try to coordinate game time w/ lads)

[Fetian]

They're Merrell sandals that I bought used on ebay for forty bucks so like, I can't be too surprised that they're not lasting but I am pretty disappointed about it. I'm hoping I can glue the sole back on and it'll be fine but I have not had much luck with that kind of repair in the past

[Fetian]

Person who was supposed to be next in the relay just confirmed they haven't heard from the host, who still hasn't been online since the 31st. Prior to now they've been very on top of keeping everything running, so I hope they're okay