if baking soda hits the rat's insides like a bomb falling on a madrassa in gaza, wouldn't bleach be even better?

is it any less likely that i'm going to get the thing to eat bleach than baking soda?

i don't want to feed it. i've seen the signs; DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS. they get aggressive when you do that, and associate you with food. i'd like to keep all of my toes, thanks. and my nose.

and my eyes.

if i give them baking soda or bleach or plaster and it doesn't work, they'll come back looking for more food. that's the worst outcome possible. i've succeeded in getting them out of this unit, but they remain in the ceiling, and are eating out of upstairs.

but i have a literal window into one of their nests. one of the property managers (the owner employs several) around here just ripped a part of the wall out to get at some plumbing a few weeks ago, and i covered it up temporarily with translucent tape. i can actually see them come in and out of there. i can get into the nest by opening it with an exacto knife and taping it back up.

i've put a few things in there. they drag them out or around.

i have taken an apple sauce container i got at the food bank and loaded it to the top with bleach. there's about a quarter cup of clorox in there.

now, rats are blind (all three of them) and rely on their noses. they follow their noses. so maybe the bleach just chases them out of there. great.

but if they decide they don't want to lose the nest and try to drag the bleach out because it smells awful, they're going to spill it, and it's going to get all over them. all over their fur, all over their skin.

and what will they do then?

they will lick it off. as filthy as rats are, they clean their fur fairly regularly. bingo.

any amount of bleach in their stomach will drop like an iron balloon, and kaboom. but, if they can survive that, it will convert to salt and poison them.

the better outcome is that they just get chased off by the smell, but if they try to move it, and they ingest any in the process, it will hopefully kill them, without feeding them.

*curls fingers*

*pets imaginary cat*

yeah, so let's decrease government spending, and slash discretionary household spending through austerity and mass layoffs, then. that makes sense. because when we go into a recession, we should immediately focus on reducing the deficit.

and, i mean, you can't blame them for writing the budget. it's not like everybody on the planet predicted this, or anythng.

the president is a retard and the prime minister is an economically illiterate fucking idiot.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/canadas-economy-is-on-life-support-and-country-is-in-recession-says-economist/

i've finally got my bedroom more or less set up. i've been putting this off, but it's also become necessary now in order to clean the dust out of here, and seal up some holes. it does feel comfortable and homey in here now for the first time.

i will get some pictures up in the coffee table book. the bedroom is smaller than the upstairs apartment, but about the same size as the last basement, except i don't have a closet in this bedroom, so i moved a small writing or work desk in. when i get back to work on the discography...

actually, maybe we should have this talk right now.

where was i when i left off? it doesn't even matter anymore.

i'm going to put it like this. when i lost my studio in 2011, i was back to work again by mid 2013, although i lost about six months to the need to find a bus pirate. i therefore only lost 2.5 years, tops.

now, in 2026, i have been having difficulty focusing since 2018. some of it is my fault, but most of it isn't. i was in fact working on the writing from 2018 to the early months of 2023, which is when the situation became dire, and i have essentially lost 2023, 2024 and 2025. i cannot lose 2026.

i intentionally started over in 2014 because i had been planning on doing that and it was the only thing that made sense. i am back at that point in 2026, but with a dramatically expanded scope. in 2014, i was just finishing my demos and compositions. in 2026, i now have video, writing, image, http and other components to tie together into a full multimedia concept. my discography is no longer a stack of 200 audio cds, but is now a single external hard drive full of disparate media types integrated with each other.

so, i will need to start at the start, with the childhood journal dated to 1989, and just do it. at this point, there's no other possible approach.

no tylenol tonight. i'm dirty and filthy and disgusting and overdue for a very long shower, but i'm not sick anymore. no puking, no stomach, no diarrhea (i was constipated), but that was still the sickest i've been in quite a while.

i am almost done cleaning up the mattress. i spilled a very large amount of coffee on it. i find that soaking something in dish soap and scrubbing it with cleaning wipes will get most stains out and that then using lysol spray with paper towels until they run clear will get just about anything else out, although i tend to let it dry several times in between.

i should finally get the bedroom roughly in shape, including getting the bed off the floor, and i want to silicon around a few places after that before i get back to the court documents.