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If you ever wanted to know how to catch a rat in the wild using just sticks, trees, bait, and a bit of string, the above video is for you.

I have Monday and Tuesday off! Thus, I am only half way through my weekend. I hope everyone has a pleasant Monday morning. I shall be sleeping.

On the night that the Sedins played their final home game of their careers, I only have one Sedins anecdote to tell. I saw the Sedins live and in-person before most Vancouverites did. I actually was in the FleetCenter arena in Boston when the Sedins were drafted by Brian Burke. I was there to see another draft pick, the brother of a friend of mine. Anyways, I had no idea who these guys were, all I knew was that the Canucks had taken two players at once. Nearly two decades later, Henrik and Daniel are at the end of an illustrious pro-hockey career. I feel lucky to have seen all of that in between.

Rarely do I find a YouTube channel that causes me to want to watch all the videos they’ve uploaded but Shawn Woods has amassed a fascinating library. His videos almost exclusively feature mouse traps, their construction and use. Some of the designs he builds from can be hundreds of years old. Conversely, he also uses 3D-printed parts as well in some of his traps. His videos are both informative and entertaining.

Mr. Woods lives on a farm of some sort, so he has access to all sorts of rodents and pests. I also enjoy the fact that he’s humane when it comes to the animals he catches. For live traps, he’ll always let the pest go. For kill traps, he always ensures the method of extermination is done as quickly and painlessly as possible.

I’m off to see how a 400 hundred year-old mouse trap works.

I found a booger in my hair this evening and it was mine. I’m gonna go to bed early tonight.

Easter Monday is not a holiday. Every Easter Monday, I proclaim I’m gonna take a vacation day on that day, just like the dozens of people on my team that do the same. Yet every year, I fail to take the vacation day and I wind up having to go to work on Monday like a chump. I gotta wake up early tomorrow, so off to bed I go.

Last week I wrote a post about a survey being sent out to employees at the studio about how satisfied they were with the new food services company running the cafeteria.

I don’t know if it’s just coincidence but there changes visible earlier this week. On Monday morning, the breakfast station for wraps, sandwich, and other prepackaged items turned into “grab and go” just like it was with the last company. The new company, however, decided that it wanted employees to ask them for a wrap or sandwich, they’d then grab the item from the tray (which was right in front of the employee) and then hand it to the employee. It was ridiculous and because the person running the line had to hear what each person wanted, long lines started to form in the morning. Everyone could clearly see the item they wanted but they couldn’t just grab and go. It took three months but they finally changed it back, hopefully because we complained in the survey.

Lastly, the stupid breakfast “potatoes” are now gone. The new company replaced the traditional hash browns with small, whole nugget potatoes which no one I talked to enjoy in the slightest. Like who wants to eat a whole roasted potato for breakfast? So on Monday, actual diced hash browns were available.

I hope there are more changes ahead because they didn’t even touch lunch service which has the most problems.

I’ve written before that Conan took Jordan Schlansky to Italy but the video above actually shows how Conan revealed to Jordan that they would be going. Also, near the end of the video, Jordan does something that has rarely been captured on camera. It’s amazing.

In the video above, Will Ferrell and Joel McHale visit the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. While you might think this is just a comedy showpiece, you’ll actually get to see some really interesting art pieces along the way. You’ll be more cultured by the end of the video.

Bill Hader recently returned to host SNL again. Stefon made another appearance on the Weekend Update desk. Here’s a short clip above.