Pen and paper, you can’t get away, third threat

I forgot to mention that for the last week Cindy and I have been participating in the Neilsen tv survey program.  I got a call a few weeks ago asking me if I wanted to participate and I said sure, I was curious what it would be like.  Early last week I got my kit in the mail along with my five one dollar bills, the standard rate for doing the survey.  I have to say I was quite surprised just how low tech this process is.

You are sent one log for each tv in the house.  Each log has a number of questions regarding your tv service in the front.  It also includes detailed instructions of how to fill out the log.  The log is broken into 15 minute increments.  For any tv that you watch you need to record the station call letters, the channel, the program name, and if you are watching on a dvr, the original air date and time.  You then draw a line downward to cover the 15 minute blocks of time you were viewing tv.  This gets logged for every person in the household, luckily Cindy and I normally are watching shows together so we can just duplicate the scribbled lines.

The process gets very annoying very quickly.  I just can’t believe that Nielsen has not found a more efficient way to track tv viewing numbers with the wonders of technology in 2015.  Our one week enlistment ends tomorrow, I won’t be reupping for another tour.

Last night I got in a little WoW time with my suddenly powerful and menacing death knight.  I was playing a map where my role was to guard a tower from being attacked by horde players.  I was at the top of the tower, some three stories high.  A horde player came rushing in and started to engage me but quickly realized I was beating the hell out of him.  He decides to run for it and jumps off the tower to escape my wrath.   I use my “death grip” ability which is basically like a tractor beam, pulling the enemy player off the ground and back up to me where I promptly finish him off.   I was laughing out loud as I did this, it was just so fun.  Cindy was in the office laughing at my laughing.

I am really having a good time with my new found superpowers.  Hopefully tonight I will have some time to strike more fear in the hearts of enemy faction players.

So this morning when Cindy went out to do chicken maintenance she reported that we have a new resident in the live trap, a possum.  At first I did not consider the possum a chicken threat but Cindy sent me a link later that confirmed they too are poultry predators although not as dexterous or creative as a raccoon.  The possum was not quite as aggressive as the raccoons with me.  It hissed and showed it’s very sharp teeth but it did not strike at me as I carried the cage to the truck. Before work I relocated him near the Bird Rookery Swamp area.  He was probably the most problematic of the three animals to get out of the live trap.  He wound up backing out of it ass first.

So the possum is added to the raccoon and hawk as current chicken predators on our property.  Speaking of the hawk, it was back last night sitting on the fence post confirming that I didn’t injure the bird seriously and that the bird can’t take a hint.