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Mouse has been captured just now.
Appears to be a healthy small mouse, grey fur, little pink paws, about 1.75 in body length. Most likely a house mouse (Mus musculus). Forgot to identify gender before releasing it far, far away, but I think it was female based on what I remember from watching it pee.
It climbed into the bin of recyclable bags, and basically bagged itself in a sealable bag. How convenient.
Edit: FYI, mouse was then released into a dark field (as it is nighttime), several houses worth of distance away.
I was debating whether I should have written "1.75 in in body length".
Gotta save space. The word "inches" is almost 1 in length.
Congratulations!
Our livers are made of asbestos so we can demolish as many as forty beers.
Oh, also,
You know, since it's been the debate night and the elections are this week, I'll take my turn to complain* about local politics. I won't speak of how one or another came out in the debate, but I'll give you a run-down of the major contenders:
PO - the ruling party, and that's pretty much all you can say about their agenda. They're supposed to be sorta centre-right, mildly liberal-conservative folks. In practice, spent the last eight years barely doing anything in line with professed ideology. To be honest, at the start they declared themselves "the warm water party", as in, we just do our job instead of playing ideological games, except it's more like they've been keeping the status quo and pretending it's all that needs to be done. Currently led by the protege of the former Prime Minister, who put her in front and fled to a cushy post in Brussels.
PiS - the major opposition party. I'd call them social nationalists, but that sounds too much like Nazis for them. Beholden to the leader, an intellectual who apparently fanatically believes in his own vision (which is surprisingly fluid, but Viktor Orban's style of ruling could be a good approximation) and himself in the guiding role. Also, raising personal loyalty above any merit and riding a wave of conspiracy theorism. Hard to say anything for sure about their policies, but anyway, they will be inevitably overshadowed by their antics. Interestingly, currently headed by the protege of the leader, who put her in front when he realized too many people dislike him to do any good in the elections.
ZL - the old left, sort of. They're a fusion of the old, post-commie cleptocrats, with the new left splitters from the PO, so technically they're a mix of the old left and the new left, but the supposed "new left" part was from the beginning a vanity project of the leader. Headed by, well, not a protege this time, but the leaders of the "old left" and the "new left" constituent parties put her in front to avoid personal infighting and to avoid turning away people who have a personal dislike for either of them.
Razem - the new left, as in, a new leftist faction made of leftie folks fed up with the antics of mainstream left parties. Can't say much about them, they're making a good impression (not unlike a cute special needs child), but we will see how much does it translate into votes. I don't mention leaders as I know of none specific.
Kukiz '15 - a middle-aged punk rocker with opinions on politics out to start his own. Got some 20% of the vote in presidential elections, but now, as a party, flounders around 5% threshold in polls. The program pretty much boils down to "we should change the voting system" and "we're not yet another party", although it's rather safe to say they're right-wingers.
PSL - the agrarian party in coalition with PO. As PO's rule is apparently near its end, they've been cautiously distancing themselves from PO (you know, kinda like rats and a sinking ship). Actually the one party where a leader is chosen by members' vote like you'd expect. They've adapted to almost every single government since back when they were based in Austria, and skillful nepotism and sheer number of rank-and-file members mean that 5% is pretty much guaranteed. What? Oh, yes, the program. Furthering the interest of farmers and the countryside.
Nowoczesna - a party started by an economist and part-time media commenter. A bit like a reboot of PO, appealing to the "hip" or "corporate" urban populace, professing a liberal agenda in economics, and in the rare occasions they speak of beyond the economics, liberal also in other matters. The leader treads a line between respectable (a professional, a respected economist, someone from outside the system, so on) and sleazy (the dude has a bit of a poor track record when it comes to economic advice).
KORWIN - led by the most infamous suspected Asperger's sufferer around, a guy called Janusz Korwin-Mikke aka Pan Janusz ("Mr Janusz"), aka Korwin Krul ("Keeng Korwin") aka Janusz Korwin One Percent, aka Korwa (trolling the ponies - see below - by portmaneau'ing his name with a swear word), aka the Cyborg Ozjasz Goldberg. I'd call it a vanity project, but every single party he's been in was a vanity project, it's just made official now. His voters are known as ponies, because they're stereotypically a bunch of fanatical ponytail-wearing metalhead wimps who've never worked for a living and experience the world through a computer screen or, at best, an occasional hacker party on their academic campus. Would be the kind of folks whose blogs Insanity reads for funzies, except they're more into Austrian school of economics. The leader guy is sort of like Eliezer Yudkowsky if he was a love child of Ayn Rand and Joseph de Maistre, suffering from a rare form of Tourette syndrome fixated on Hitler (all of which explain why the ponies are so fanatical about him).
* actually it doesn't really make me complain, it more like makes me laugh, but I'm keeping up with the tradition of complaining about politics.
You Americans and your silly problems.