Housing collections

[gordonjcp at gjcp.net]

> I have had a TERRIBLE problem with mice out in the garage.  I've
> learned that you NEVER put a PC out there without blank card
> brackets in ALL open card slots and drives installed in ALL open
> media holes.  I've recently thrown away an otherwise good Dell
> Optiplex Pentium III system because the mice set up housekeeping
> in it.  There was a big obvious nest in it and signs that 'the
> little ones' were (im)properly raised as computer component
> enthusiasts.  I still have a lot of systems out there but they're
> all carefully sealed.  But I live surrounded by hundreds of acres
> of cornfields, and the mice converge on my garage every year when
> it gets cold.  They've also chewed up ALL the power tool user
> manuals that I made the mistake of leaving in the workbench
> drawer.  Sometimes if I'm out there and being quiet enough, the
> whole city of mice around me comes alive.

Basically, you need a cat.

Gordon.