Having a hard time re-entering a five-day work-week? Did your Monday start with a bang? (Mine certainly did, ugh*) Then celebrate the middle of the week in style and/or drown your sorrows at the OurPDX meetup on Wednesday, December 2nd at Thatch.
We’ll be there just after 5 pm – which gives you plenty of time to enjoy a drink prior to the Web Innovators meeting at 7 pm at Cubespace, right? Or I’m sure a few of us will be there for a bit longer…
Thatch Tiki Bar
2733 NE Broadway
Portland, Oregon 97253
RSVP on Upcoming so we know to save you a seat, will you?
(* or, more accurately, the sound of what I’m now told must have been a huge rodent thrashing around in a closet in my house, eeeeek! Liberally sprinkled poison down the freshly-gnawed hole he disappeared down; plugged same with steel wool. Will buy drinks in exchange for good exterminator recs…!)
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If Princess Tina was mine, I would let you borrow her. She’s a great exterminator and you can pay her in meow mix or turkey bits.
To a new viewer, this description seems bizarre. Poisoning animals? Drinking? An organization that believes it represents PDX? I want to make Portland a better place and could use support, and I have a lot to offer the community including compassion and good humor, but I’m looking for people with knowledge, maturity, compassion, and warmth. Try again, please.
Compassion Flows
@Compassion – When you put it that way, it makes OurPDX sound a lot cooler than we really are!
Have you ever had a mouse run across your chest in the middle of the night? Ever had a rat run across your bare foot? I’m guessing you’d reach down, pet it, feed it? How nice!
If you’re “looking for people with knowledge, maturity, compassion, and warmth” I’d suggest the AARP website. They serve Jell-O…
So drinking and/or pest control are incompatible with knowledge, maturity, compassion, and warmth? Wow.
For someone who is so intent on compassion, you’re tarring with a mighty wide brush.
Perhaps it would be best if you sought out that blessed little sliver of the community that thinks exactly as you do, so you all can hold hands and sing songs while you pass judgment on all the rest of us.
If disliking disease-carrying rodents and attempting to kill them when they come into my home is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
“Poisoning animals? Drinking? An organization that believes it represents PDX?”
I think @compassion may have just outlined my next favorite Chuck Palahniuk novel. Welcome to PDX. Check your maturity with the Weird flight attendant that looks like Jesus and have a drink or two. Oh, and we also have steel wool. Do with it what you will.
There is nothing more annoying than passive aggressive self proclaimed “compassionate” types with zero sense of humor who like to rip on others and project all kinds of their own idiotic
issues based on a simple blog post.
Rats and mice are a health hazard.
Communities are made up of many smaller communities. OurPDX does not claim to represent Portland.
I love my friggin’ cats.
Never had a rodent problem in my 100+ y.o. house, and don’t see too many bugs, either. (Good thing I’m not allergic.)
Nothing passive aggressive about my fuzzy little killing machines!
I live right outside Forest Park where plenty of deer, coyotes, raccoons, rats and mice roam — in huge numbers and huge sizes. They don’t need my 700 square feet.
So I do trap them. And kill them. Yes, I’ve gotten more “lord of the flies” the older I’ve gotten. I don’t have a problem with that.
I’d get a cat but I’m allergic.
To make myself clear, I only trap the critters (mice, rats) that come into my house. As long as they stay outside, they’re golden.
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