When the birds fly south, when the Chinese celebrate moon festival, when little furry animals get ready to hibernate, it's winter. Normally if there's not enough snow for snowboarding, it doesn't feel like winter for me. But in this case, winter's made itself more obvious.
Yesterday, as Brian and I were going to pick up Andy from the airport, a dead mouse was found behind my car. Since my garage is cramped enough that I have to walk around the entire car to get to the driver side, I spotted a dark grey mouse lying on it's side with blood coming out of it's head about a foot behind my G35x's back wheel.
Apparently the weather has been cold enough that it sought refuge in my garage. (I didn't notice because of my +1 skin of cold resistance :P) However, Darwin strikes again as it managed to run under the back tire of my car as I was parking, the day before.
It kinda reminds me of when I was still in elementary school and my neighbors and I were walking home from school. I saw a mosquito dive for the small amount of shade under Hugo's sister's shoe since it was really hot outside. Needless to say, flying under a shoe as it's stepping down is a bad idea.
Anyhow, yeah, so now I know I ought to make sure the garage/house door is closed so the next luckier mouse makes it no further than the garage. And that I should consider investing in some ski racks.....
Posted by hachu at October 19, 2004 03:04 PM