"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

This evening a mouse was running around, something that has been happening more noticeably for the past few nights. I made it my goal to kill it. There was an old sticky trap around that didn’t have all that much stick to it, but it was all I could find.

Sure enough, when I was cooking dinner I heard some flapping around. A mouse had got itself stuck. But it broke free. I was horrified. It happened again, so I ran out to get this metal pole we have to kill it. But it broke free again just before I could brain it. Thankfully, mice seem to have no short-term memory and it got re-stuck. I killed it. It was supremely satisfying, as all I could think about was the movie Mouse Trap and how I was happy it didn’t turn out like that. Alas, as I sat down to eat and another ran right past its dead comrade. And thus the title of this post came about.

Other than that, today was gooooooooood. I got an email from the NGO in Seattle, so I’ve got some work to do to update what I sent them last week. I have taught myself a new meal which is really satisfying, if not overly complex: rice with tomato sauce and fish cooked into it. The Habs beat the Sens again, which is pretty fantastic. I managed to watch the (blurry) highlights at an internet cafe. Aebischer came up huge and it was great that Zednik popped the winner. What was even more impressive was how greasy the goal was—you’d expect that from the fourth line, but to see Mike Ribeiro crashing the net and Zed banging in his garbage was extra-sweet.

So that’s all in Tony-land for now.