Ding Dong The Rat is Dead...?

Well, for some time now me and Bexs have had to put up with the creepy fact that a rat has been a regular visitor to our kitchen, and all my efforts to stop it getting in have met with stiff resistance. Having enough, I finally went out and bought some poison to stop the blighter for good. It was freaking Bexs out and with good reason! Since my last post, the rat had been eating the blue corn of death rather happily, and I was merely waiting for something to happen.

This morning I discovered our unwelcome guest on the floor of our dining room, and apparently it had been injured, as it's back legs were skewiff. Normally when I approach it scurries into a hole, but this time it just sat there. Utilising a broom I bundled it into a mop bucket and placed it outside in the grassy area, where it lay as it had done before. I could see that something had happened to it's legs, as it was dragging them around. It certainly looked like it was not long for this world. So I placed it in a nice spot to await it's fate. I've been checking throughout the day, and it's vanished from the spot I put it in. So I'm guessing either a cat has got to it, or it's tougher than I thought it was. I'm rather hoping it's crawled into a shady spot to live out it's last moments. But only time will tell. In the meantime, I suppose I'd best make a start bunging up the rat holes...

Time for Justice!

One of the things God has been speaking to me about recently is his concept of Justice. Now, when we hear the word Justice, we think immediately of Police and jails and so on. Scripture on the other hand, paints a different take on this word. In fact, it has more to do with 'Putting Things Right' than it does crime and Punishment. God has been putting this idea in my brain for a while now, so I figured He must be doing so for a reason.. so this week I've been searching through old records and such to see if there was anything I needed to sort out. Lo, and behold I found something quite disturbing.. I hadn't sorted out my Council Tax in a while. Given that this had been brought to my attention, I thought I'd best sort it out, especially since I'd read a scripture in Romans about debts and how Christians should pay people they owe, especially the authorities who were put there for a good reason.

So, I've demonstrated some Justice by putting it right, and me and Bexs are now paying back everything we owe to the council. It's going to be a bit of a tough slog for a few months.. but it'll be worth it in the long run. I have to tell you, since I've sorted this out, I've felt as if a burden has been lifted off me, which was probably contributing to my 'bland' outlook on life. Ok, so doing this has made us technically worse off, but I'm positive about it because it was the right thing to do. Besides, clearing it up means I won't leave any mess behind in the future.. which is what I can think about now. If all goes well, we might have this all sorted by March 2008.

Geek-o-riffic

For the longest time, I've been a big fan of the music found in video games. Today I've spent the best part of two hours searching out original game music from fab games from my past such as Final Fantasy Tactics, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and but of course, FFXI and Mario. I've now crammed Winamp chock full of these tunes to listen to while I tidy up and so on. shame I can't port them onto a CD, oh well. Still, I'm happy that I did. My current Videogame collection needed a good re-vamp anyways.