Working Hard (Not Hardly)

You just can’t beat the classic snap trap. 3 of the 4 mice that invaded our house met their end by trying to lick peanut butter from these traps. The remaining mouse got caught in a “no see ‘em” trap shaped like a hockey puck. I had also bought an electronic trap, but the mice never even bothered to search for the meal waiting inside. The mouse drama seems to be over, as I’ve caulked in some of their hiding places and we haven’t been bothered by any new visitors for a while now.

Julie is amazing. She finished the first three chapters of her thesis and still had time to make desserts for our neighborhood party (and I helped!). We had fun meeting neighbors and seeing some really cool houses. I’ve been working on several projects: refinishing a kitchen door, building a custom frame for our sweet panorama poster of Salzburg, putting up Christmas lights, and writing an iPhone interface for kayak.com.

Today I made reservations for the Swissotel in Chicago. We spent the night there before we left for Cancun on our honeymoon. We’ll be back for our anniversary. It was a really nice place. In fact, this website called Schmap features a picture I took of our room.

Interesting fact for the day: Did you know that Michigan is second only to Seattle for the number of cloudy days in a year? In December and January, there’s only a 30% chance that a given day will be sunny. I keep my office window shades open in vain, hoping that the sun will come out, allowing me to bask in its warm glow. Well, it’s not completely in vain. A few days have offered a fleeting glimpse. We haven’t had much snow yet. At most we had a couple inches a few weeks ago.