It's Christmas-Carol-overheard-backstage time! Children are drawing... YP supervisor: "That's good, it looks like a sketch by Leonardo DiCaprio."

Also also—Hec is in Humans of NY!

Weird, huh?

On the one hand, you're psyched for Brandon to spot you and want to shoot you and interview you.

But then you are subjected to the opinions of thousands of people who don't know you.

Gud. Please tell us once you have contacted the suicide prevention hotline or spoken to a domestic abuse counselor. If you don't feel safe doing so at home, you can call from work. Please do this.

I must be a terrible housekeeper because I didn't notice the disgusting condition of my kitchen cupboards. Droppings throughout. Three junk drawers full of yuck. Why, rodent, why? There is absolutely no food in with the old batteries and spare power strips!

Interesting that the paper napkins and brown paper bags got shredded. The red solo cups are pooped in. Guess I'm not going to wash those.

Tomorrow I will remove all the canned goods so I can wash down the shelves and then clean all the pots and pans. What fun.

Tomorrow will be another bad air day and I am so tired of the gunk hurting my sinuses.

My dad had a health crisis on vacation a few weeks back and now he's in surgical rehab up in Bozeman Montana trying to gather the strength for a plane trip home to the Bay Area. Fortunately his wife is a retired nurse, so he's been in good hands but it's hard that he's so far away. Hopefully we'll be together for Thanksgiving but no one can be sure if that will happen. This frail mortality is awful.

we got hit by the mouse invasion -in spring - cleaned everything - and traps. hated to do that - but even when everything was in plastic and glass - they were still in the house. I hear them in the walls sometimes, which drives me bonkers. and the cat - he doesn't care

I'm sorry about the family stuff, KatieBee. I hope you do get to be together for Thanksgiving.

We've had mice--check your bathroom(s). Our wee beastie shredded toilet paper, q-tips, cotton balls, all excellent nesting materials, so, you know, you might want to get on with the extermination part of the proceedings before you have more than one generation to contend with.

We knew it was mice and not rats, and went with regular spring traps baited with peanut butter. They work. Poison getting into the water table aside, I nearly lost a cat to a poisoned rat a long time ago, so none of that. And I wouldn't wish a glue trap on Donald Trump, that's how bad they are. I don't think you want to humanely TNR local rodentia, so spring traps are the best way to go. They're so cheap we just throw them in the garbage along with the wee corpse. Rats? We'd probably move--I would, anyway.

Thanks for checking in, Gud.

Gud. Please tell us once you have contacted the suicide prevention hotline or spoken to a domestic abuse counselor. If you don't feel safe doing so at home, you can call from work. Please do this.

Echoing Pix. Gud, please take this advice.

Mice happen and make a mess in a hurry. The swanky areas here with their waterfronts and citrus trees have rat issues. Ick. I want to try those sonic dealios that drive away ants and other bugs and see how they work. Next summer when I go north I will absolutely try the sonic mouse repellent devices. Worth a try.

YP supervisor: "That's good, it looks like a sketch by Leonardo DiCaprio."

So a lot of inappropriately young models, then?

Natterers made me break my FB fast to check out Hec in HONY. I did not read the 1.6k comments! I often feel a kinship with the people featured in HONY, but this was extra awesome.