See, there's one vote says I was right all along :-) Just think, instead of playing around setting up this journal this morning, I could have written, er, about 400 words....

The electrostatics seem to have worn off, thankfully - don't know what caused it, and don't know why it's gone away. Odd.

I think the local rat population are rueing their arrival, though. Me too, since dead rats aren't what I want to find by my computer desk in the morning.