Apparently, mice in the NYC area are not a rabies risk.

There is, however, a risk of lockjaw if you got bitten by one. Or, perhaps, prodded one with a too-short stick to see if it was actually dead.... Yeah, not one of my brighter moments. And this was outside, too - there was really no reason for me not to be minding my own business. Stupid mouse seems to have a broken foot, to my untrained eye, which explains why it was still in the place I'd flung it long enough for me to stick it in a coffee can, chuck some french fries after it. If it starts frothing at the mouth or anything, or *I* do, I'll get somebody to kill it properly and check out its brains. But I'm pretty sure that, like the other mice in the area, it's not a rabies risk.

And unless somebody in the area is desperate to make a wild mouse with a broken foot (but probably not rabies!) a pet, I guarantee, I don't care enough to keep it alive. Thing *bit* me! (Mind, it was scared, but that's not the point)

Today's haiku...

Nibbly little mouse
Who's been gnawing on my hand?
Ow! That was stupid.

Yeah. 'cuz it was.

So, the Everything Goes Book Cafe is having its Grand Opening!

It's already opened, but that was, like, the fake opening or something.

It's a nice spot, really, and I have to go to support them - I'm really happy about the way our neighborhood is building up. Partly, this is because it's cool to be living in an area that really is just a bit artsy, just a bit rainbow colored. Mostly, though, it's because the biggest sign of this, the Popular Location (name changed), is a great way to provide directions.

See, when we first moved into our house, it took my sister and me several hours to get to the house because the car service guy drove *all around the island* looking for our street. After my father died, and we were getting flowers, we'd get calls from irritated delivery men saying things like "I've lived on Staten Island my whole life, and your street doesn't exist!"

Yeah.

If we ever had to take car service, or have somebody drive us anywhere, we'd resign ourselves to explaining several times where, exactly, our street is.

Now, we can just say "By the Popular Location!" and get taken right there. It's amazing. I love it.

Of course, I keep forgetting I can do this, so I start off "It's behind that church! Between these two streets! No, not those stre... Just take me to the Popular Location."

Oh wow COOL!

This is totally the bestest toy EVER! No, I'm not just saying that.

Thanks, spacemuffin! Why, this article and the one on the knight school are almost making me forget the state of the world.

So, the ETG Book Cafe is a success.

Yay.

Of course, what we really need, instead of another cafe, is a movie theater. And we've got a movie theater building! It's empty! All it needs is somebody to move in and start showing movies. Preferably old and/or indie movies.... Or just "second-run" movies, because do we need a movie theater that charges new-movie prices? I can wait a few months to see Random Movie.

Of course, I'm building this place up in my mind to have, like, vintage video games, and a pinball machine, and... I don't think I'm quite entreprenurial (I misspelled that, but am too lazy to fix it, though not too lazy to type about how lazy I am) enough to pull it off. Pity. Because it'd be cool. Ish. Well, cool to me.