Working at night

.. has completely messed up my sleeping cycles.. If I get up at my usual time, (around 6 am) I am hallucinating by 8 pm.. driving home I have missed my exit on the beltway twice now and have to drive to the next exit which adds 15 miles to my drive.. then I have to stay awake enough not to miss the exit again on the way back...
and how boring is this.. writing about missing my exit..

So I will tell you about the mouse drama. My cat has stopped catching mice.. I think he is losing his eyesight. He has cataracts that seem to glow red in direct light... maybe I am imagining that... any way. I resorted to glue traps after I found a dead mouse floating in Grendel's water dish. He was not happy about that part either..

I caught two mice. One dragged the trap under the dishwasher. When I went to move the dishwasher, I popped the solder on the hot water lead. So then the dead mouse floated out from under the dishwasher on it's glue trap raft in the rush of hot water. The whole experience was very diminishing. The glue trap is like... mouse hell. The evidence of his struggle to get away... but getting eaten by Grendel must also be unpleasant.

I finally managed to solder the pipe again and things seem to have settled down for now. I have an uneasy relationship with animals, I don't quite trust them. The night the mouse drowned in his bowl, Grendel was so freaky that I locked him out of my room. I thought maybe he had rabies.
Of course, his behavior was totally appropriate, I mean how gross..
I would not have wanted to deal with the mouse at three o'clock in the morning in any case.

There is something quite creepy about being bumped, trod upon and bitten by an animal who wants me to get up and attend to some random event, like the night the raccoons came in and ate 25 pounds of premium cat food. I think it is better not to learn shocking things in the middle of the night.