Random Rants
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THE MOUSE SAGA CONTINUES:
Yesterday, after taking the car apart and noticing it has pretty much entirely chewed apart out car seats ($800 worth of damage), I set additional traps to catch the mouse that has taken refuge in my truck. I knew it wouldn't come out in the daylight, but luckily, I coached late last night, so I was hoping he would take some bait once the sun goes down.
Take the bait he did, and he also managed to drag the trap away, and I can't find the damn thing.
Not only did he manage to move the sticky trap (a small one because I thought it was a field mouse) and "hide" it from me somewhere in the bellows under the front passneger seat, but he also managed to break free.
While he was free last night, he decided to begin to tear apart my rear bench seat - effectively chewing apart a seat belt (the clip part, not the belt part) as asll we tearing a HUGE hole in the leather and removing a ton of the padding ($700 for the leather to re-upholster the seats + $300-500 to install them).
So now, my total damage from this mouse in my truck in nearly $2000.
WTF did I do in this world to deserve this?
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I’m sorry too Adam. That’s nuts…. but I don’t think this is a mouse. I think Rat.
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It's probably something bigger than a mouse.
The marten causes millions of dollars worth of damage every year in Germany. I never heard of them until I moved here.
https://jalopnik.com/how-cute-ferret-like-animals-cause-germany-65-million-1788013196
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It seriously is hilariously ridiculous.
And yeah, I’ve come to accept it’s probably a rat with as much damage as it has done - although I’ve seen field mice chew through concrete, so who knows they are capable of.
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haha thanks @Jett129
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Is there a NIMH research facility in Alabama?
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It seriously is hilariously ridiculous.
And yeah, I’ve come to accept it’s probably a rat with as much damage as it has done - although I’ve seen field mice chew through concrete, so who knows they are capable of.
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If at first you don't succeed…
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@Appfaff this is the only way to be sure…
Meanwhile, here's the conclusion from the coding test saga.
I spent four or five days working on problems for a couple of companies. Since they were basically asking the same thing (download data from a website, and display it), I wrote a very generic solution, that could be extended. This is because I'm lazy, and developers generally lack imagination.
For those of you who're code monkeys, my app made heavy use of generics (templates for those who do C++) and abstract / virtual classes.
I got turned down by one of the companies today. The feedback was that I'm obviously very clever, but I didn't do what they were looking for.
My translation: We don't have a fecking clue what he was doing, so we don't want to hire him. (I find a lot of programmers don't really get the more abstract end of object oriented design.)
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Don't bother trying a cat..
