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There's a two frame glass door on the front of the house. When I came home last night I found a mouse sitting on the bar in the middle. Like any reasonable person, I immediately caught it. (It seemed strangely tired.) I stuck it in an empty breadcrumb container, gave it a cherry tomato for food and water, put plastic wrap over the top, and poked some holes in for air flow, planning to take it out tomorrow somewhere far away from the cats.

It starts jumping around a lot, which gets the hunter-cat interested, so I put it in another room and close the door. That seems sufficient to get her to forget it exists.

Later, when I'm trying to sleep, my cat is going crazy. She keeps coming in and meowing really loudly, which always means either "something's really wrong waaah" or "hey I killed a thing hey hey look I killed a thing" so I have to wake up and check every time. I finally fall asleep only to be woken up by "DEFINITELY KILLED A THING YES" from her. She drops a mouse on the floor. It seems dead but I'm pretty tired at this point and not really on the ball with finding a container. It suddenly gets up and skitters away, and the cat keeps catching it, dropping it, and losing it as it runs again. Finally it goes under my bed and my cat comes back out without it.

I sit up for a while longer waiting for the cat to make another attempt which she doesn't. She just rolls around purring like an idiot. Finally I start looking and I find it burrowed into a blanket I kicked off the bed. I get it into a container, find a tall plastic thing to transfer it into, put the plastic wrap on, and go to put it up with the other mouse.

Of course, it is the other mouse, the stupid little asshole having held onto the lip of the first container long enough to chew through the plastic and get out, so I have to go get a real lid and stab holes in that.

Anyway the mouse didn't escape that and didn't die over the night - it's in surprisingly good shape for a mouse that got caught so many times! On the other hand, that means the annoying stove mouse is still there, ready to be caught another night at whatever hour the cat knows is least convenient.

I think the stuff we're buying has too much weird fillers and crap. To the blender!

Ah, March, in like a lion, out like a lamb, just like they say! Now we're on to what looks like a gorgeous April, full of warm rain and sprouting plants. What wonderful weather!

Almost killed the dumb cat. We learned that he doesn't seek shelter and he also doesn't make any noise to indicate he's right outside, he just stays there in the cold all night. Despite this we're still letting him out because he's still scared of litterboxes.

Some girls came by and were confused to see the smart cat in the window, because apparently they're trying to track down some strays someone else has been feeding.

"Oh, that can't be her," I said, "she hates people."

"It's a stray cat terrified of anyone getting near it," they said.

"Oh. In that case it's definitely my cat you've been feeding. Sorry about that."

And pudding cat continues to be a fat fat pudding cat. She moves with the majesty of a whale.

I was starting to feel bad because maybe your parents threw out stuff you actually wanted but that was before we reached the layer of unused gift cards and digital cameras.

Over on AOOOOOOOOOOO and FFN.

In which it's considered that just because Rose is better at dealing with other people by the low standards of gems doesn't mean she's good at it.

Glad to have this finished, it's part of why I haven't been getting enough reviewing done.

FFN and AOOOOOOOO.

In which a pearl grows very slightly closer to an important decision.

Should obviously have been doing reviews or at least updating a pokemon story so the flood of angry reviews it'll get will make any sense, but...

So this enraged me when I first saw it and I still want to complain about it so let's cap this year off with that.

This is easily half of what I hate about Steven Universe fandom chatter. "A character did a thing I identify with! Therefore it must be for precisely the same reason as I do it, and also they must be exactly like me in all other ways! Peridot knows stuff about a thing? I know stuff about a thing too! It must be because she's super into knowing stuff about a thing for no reason, and not because that was her job, because none of this could possibly have to do with anything but the one way I identify with the character!!! Neither are the ways she doesn't act like this relevant! All of it, every last bit, must be them being LITERALLY ME! While I'm doing this, I'll also completely ignore that the other half of what I'm talking about actually applies to the rest of the characters, because this one is LITERALLY ME and all others are NOT ME AT ALL and it's not like characters can have a variety of traits instead of this binary because representation is important."

2016 prediction: Jasper eventually gets out of the ocean and gets freaked out with things touch or restrain her and this proves she is so incredibly autistic because she has sensory processing problems, meanwhile the rest of the cast continues to be completely terrible at understanding other people's feelings despite good intentions on all sides, it's probably definitely because they're garbage people who are terrible.

Still raining but it's progressed to t-shirt weather. Sparrows are working on a nest in the gutters.

You'd think at some point this would scare people.

And I'm older.

Also, looks like I'm getting another chicken.

Current events are so weird. There's that Childhood's End show on TV and it reminds me of how when I read the book ages ago, I thought how incredibly optimistic the writer had been in thinking we'd be in a much better place even before the aliens showed up to fix things. And since then it's often seemed like we're not so much moving slower than expected but actually backward. But then there's other things where there seems to be so much progress - I'm stunned that somehow we got from "it's progressive to not ask if people are gay before letting them into the military" all the way to "trans people are okay I guess" already. I'm a little worried that this is going to be a wobble thing and there'll be backlash, but it seems like most people just don't care enough when it comes down to it to cause a backlash - it's just become normal.

I really hope the Republican party grits their teeth and refuses to nominate Trump so he'll have to run third-party and split the vote. After everything they've done, they could redeem themselves a little by throwing themselves on this grenade.