Halfway down the Danube

Go see "Serenity." Drink plenty of fluids. I can't help you with the mice.

Thus I often link the words "fire" and "Sherman".

Which reminds me of this.

At least you have mice with taste - it's better than them eating all your shoes, I guess. I'd suggest trapping, but if they're getting into your apartment in a nice high building (if I remember your tales of moving correctly) then there may be a proliferation of them around somewhere - rather than just wandering in from outside - meaning that trapping is just a war of attrition. (he said, knowing bugger all about mice)

Randomly, I got a spam from Shenzen yesterday, wanting to sell me "Japanese Kokeshi dolls". The nice Chinese chap offering this bargain signed as CARLOS WU, which caused a rather weird "huh?" moment.

Carbonel, Serenity and Firefly have kinda passed me by, and probably will continue to do so. Hell, I haven't even seen an episode of Babylon 5 (and that too seems unlikely to change).

Josh, in my less forgiving moods, I think that'd look great on top of Stone Mountain.

Andrew, it's a fourth-floor apartment in a row of townhouses, but I think I can manage local mouse non-proliferation with the help of some steel wool. (Their port of entry was the gas line to the stove.) It was a shock though.

I always had good luck with the old-fashioned snap traps. Leave them out baited but not set for one day, then rebait and set the ones that get raided.

I suggest Korean kimchi soup (kimchi chigae) for colds, although some people don't like eating pepper when they're sick.