I met with the exterminator, it was a two hour event and he didn’t even fully climb into the attic. The good news is that he said that he would not recommend replacing the insultation mostly due to the cost. It would be very labor intensive and I would be shelling out a mighty sum of money. Of course he couldn’t smell a damn thing because it was our 3rd nice hot and steamy day in a row a good portion of the odor is gone. However, temperatures are set to cool now that today is the 1st day of Fall and the smell will return shortly. Instead he gave me an odor bag to hang in the attic that should absorb the odor. His company only offers a multi prone approach to make the whole home pest free. This includes everything from ants, spiders, silverfish as well as mice and rats. There is a lump sum payment due up front to get started it’s a couple hundred. Then you get service bi-monthly for another hundred dollars. It’s a 1 year contract that auto renews, he said that I could cancel at anytime. Now I doubt that is written in the Terms & Conditions. If it’s one thing I learned from watching videos on how to buy a car is that the sales person can promise you anything but unless you have it in writing it never happened, they have plausible deniability and you have no legal leg to stand on.
I pulled the trigger and signed up on the spot just because I need this problem behind me as fast as possible. When I read the contract it said they will use bait stations and glue traps. I honestly am against glue traps it’s not humane. I mean you could argue that bait stations aren’t humane either but at least the mouse can eat, leave and then the pain starts instead of being trapped on glue island struggling to get away and dying from exhaustion. I can’t imagine the panic they must feel. I’ll talk with the tech when he shows up on Monday to get started about the glue traps, I am going to decline them and rely on good old fashion poison. The only advantage with glue traps is you know where the mouse is going to die, with the traditional poison you have no control over that. They will remove what they can see but if a mouse dies in a wall he’s there forever. It’s going to smell bad for a week. Hey I am already dealing with odors and have been for a couple years the sooner we can get this behind me and the smells leave the happier and better I will be.
Work is what has occupied most of my time and energy. Project work is the absolute worst. Lots going on but thankfully the one of the projects will be ending next week as it will move into implementation.
I broke down and reached out to my friends to see about getting together this weekend. I don’t have high hopes that it will happen but at least I made the effort and can cross that off my list. I’ve got a haircut scheduled for Saturday morning and the rest of the weekend is wide open. I do look forward to being away from work and possibly the computer in general.
I’ve been taking advantage of my free trial of Out TV and have been watching it a lot. Saw a competition for an underwear model. Now I am watching a behind the scenes series of Gay Porn. Lots of the stuff you see in scenes is fake but I had no idea to what degree. Plus they talk about the whole gay for pay thing. Apparently the money is really good for straight men, at least enough to motivate them to do it.
Well I need to get back to the salt mines there is plenty waiting for me to take care of. I have zero desire to do any of it but I need the money. At least there is only one more day until this week is done. Hope all is well for you.
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