Mouse Watch 7 or 8,
This one will be quick - I'm on the Ref Desk for heaven's sake.
The Toronto Star has discovered where our little friends have gone - the Loblaws at Dupont and Christie - all of them, every single one - the food is much better there AND there's more of it - how they got there is anyone's guess.
Which reminds me have you ever seen that book Subway Mouse by the Canadian woman plastecine artist/writer?
bye for now

on WIKIs and Mouse watch too

I 'm dizzy - the RULA learning curve may be too steep for me. How the heck does one edit the name of a new page on the WIKI - I don't want to sound paranoid but I think there are people behind the scenes there that have much more power over this thing - if they're listening could they change my "Pasta e fagioli (soup - vegetarian option)" to "Pasta e fagioli (soup in 20 minutes)" - I think the latter is catchier - alternatively maybe someone can tell me how to edit it myself - maybe I'll contact my group leader - well okay I'll figure it out myself.

I could see using a wiki for committee work within the library - especially for planning teas, parties etc. I wonder if a Wiki for the reference desk would provide continuity, pass along info throughout each day by having us post FAQs and other issues that come up for the day etc.? (do you put .? or just the . in this case?)

Mouse - things are eerily quiet down here on the first floor - I think they have migrated elsewhere. The daily cleaning off of my desk has added substantially to my workload.

Blogline and Mouse Watch

Okay I've done my homework I think, I hope. What I don't like about RSS - there's not enough time, too many choices ... the top 200!!! ... I find it overwhelming ... I do well with lists of 10.

Seriously, now that I have a blogline set up, as I come across other RSSes, RSSs, RSSi (?) feeds that are of personal interest (choirs) and work related (ERM) I will add them but I'm kind of worried that it will end up being another growing list of things that are kine of rebuking me because I don't find the time to look at them. I don't read news, weather etc. online and I really don't want to start to - I love radio and magazines so - I mean if I want to know what it's like outside, I throw the door open and look, feel ... it drives my loved ones crazy ... why is that ... I know it is handy to find out what the weather is like elsewhere - for travel purposes, I get that ... but the weather here, right now??

... AS FOR THE MOUSE ... there's been a blackout on that story - I don't know if the news has leaked out to other areas but there has been at least one casualty on the first floor, and it wasn't the glue trap thank goodness, it was the other one, you know, the mouse trap, trap ... I have spoken to an "expert" in the field who suggested that "cleaning up" may in fact prevent more captures since these critters are smart, they'll just go elsewhere in the library ... so watch out everyone else, the first floor is now spotless ...

Here's the link to my blogline -- http://www.bloglines.com/blog/eweijs/

Mouse Watch Day 5.2

One of my blog 'followers' and her side kick helped me figure out how to get my clock on to Toronto time - but sorry for the life of me I can't remember what I clicked - not dashboard or many other things - but it might have been layout or formatting.

Mouse Watch Day 5

The minute I saw the mouse excrement ON MY DESK (I refuse to call them droppings - never, never will I do that) this whole mouse watch thing took a different turn - I'm not sure which turn yet though. It might not be funny and it could mean war so ...

I know why the mouse suddenly decided after so many days on OTHER PEOPLE'S DESKS to visit mine - I mean the management should know really that no one around me was working here yesterday on the first floor - THEY WERE VACUUMING, BLEACHING, DUSTING, TREATING, CONTAINERING you name it.

I on the other hand performed a cursory vacuuum and dust, a touch of containering and look what happens?

ON THE PLUS SIDE - 2 followers and more comments - it kind of disturbs me that there's a "Manage" thingy beside the followers - managing is not my forte.

Mouse watch Day 4

Well it's been a dark day all around (except for the mice). Here on the first floor I feel this tremendous pressure to vacuuum (that may be spelled wrong and I don't care). I thought I would be escaping housework when I came here! The thought of all the mice coming to MY area now that the surrounding environs are so pristine may just be the tipping point for me - I've started by having the vacuuum set up by my desk - now I'm going for a break and think about plugging it in when I return.

Mouse watch Day Two

Still no mouse - I'm telling you this critter is vegetarian, possibly even macrobiotic, or vegan or maybe it's on a raw food only diet - either way can it have peanut butter? I've brought in organic almond butter from home - what do you think? What's the etiquette here - do I need permission to mess around with someone else's mouse trap - what are the boundaries in the office for this kind of issue??? Her trap is only milimeters away from my cubicle so I think I may have some rights or at least a right of way here.

Mouse watch

Mouse watch: my sources say peanut butter is THE best thing to put in a trap. I mean, come on - a piece of salami??? - any fairly well educated rodent could just slip that out in a jiffy and be back for more tomorrow.