I clicked on the link to a video about the untimely and sad death of Billy Mays, as usual it was preceded by a commercial.  At first I was offended by that, is nothing sacred? But then I realized how totally and completely appropriate it was. I only wish it was for something that made me want to run to the phone and order it. I may never feel that way again.  Read Full Story

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  We’ve been gradually adding quantity discounts at ThatRestlessMouse.com – My goal was to finish adding all the items to the new “virtual cash register” software, THAT is a big job.   It doesn’t help productivity that I got “Sims 3” for Father’s Day. Those sims are harsh taskmasters, but at least they can somewhat take care of themselves in this version.   In earlier versions of that SIMS series, there would be situations where f... Read Full Story

   I haven’t gotten much time to sit and watch TV lately, but what I have seen of the new Verizon Vios service on the TV side, I’m loving it. It blows cable out of the water.  Got a letter from Comcast today, informing me that Verizon is selling it’s fiber optic and telephone land line operations, or some portion thereof, to Frontier communications.  This smells like desperation. Should I be concerned? I remember when Verizon bought our phone line from GT... Read Full Story

  I got to thinking, boy, it’s a real pain in the patootie to run two website, and we are always running into inventory related problems because of it. Also, I am tired of looking at this stupid computer monitor.   So I set up quantity discounts at ThatRestlessMouse.com, and we will be closing the NoveltyTradingPost.com site as soon as I get those discounts punched in.   So if you see discounts on some items but not on others, that’s why; I am also working a lot of ... Read Full Story

  6/11/09 We had a guy from Verizon come out today and set us up with Telephone, TV and Internet via Fiber Optics. We all agree, he looks, sounds, and acts exactly like Charlie Sheen. Maybe a slightly less cheerful version of Charlie Sheen, but he has a sort of crappy job.   Anyway, I will probably blog a series of comments about this. I usually try to knock something out right before I leave for my night job, and of course it ends up looking sort of truncated because I’m alwa... Read Full Story

  I am still planning to get my all of my TV signal over the Internet, as stated earlier here.   In fact, I unplugged the bedroom TV’s “digital conversion box” that Comcast sent me, (It seems to be defective) and we get all of our TV in that room from DVDs, VHS tapes, or Internet sources, mainly the streaming movies that Netflix offers.   Those streaming movies are great, because if you stop and go do something else, even if you shut down the computer, when yo... Read Full Story

  I got a call from my “night job” employer’s “wellness program” the other day.  I had never called their dial-a-nurse thing nor had I had any other contact with them. Then they called me out of the blue, (on a Sunday!) – Wanted to know if I had questions about Diabetes or any other health issues.   Naturally, I was all "I'm not interested" but somehow we got to talking and I did get some questions answered, but later I started ... Read Full Story

LED bicycle wheel lighting from MonkeyLectric; WHY didn’t they have these back when I was a kid? Very cool, and your parents would buy them if you gave them a good “safety” pitch.I sent away for some stripey clip-on straw things from a cereal-box promotion, but that’s only slightly better than a clothespin-and-playing-card setup.I'm getting this if I ever move to an urban environment where it's practical to ride a bike. Read Full Story

I keep hoping my son will learn to weld &/or solder… So he can crank out stuff like this for me to peddle on our website. We used to have a product called “Fork You!” which was exactly what you are thinking of, the dumb things sold like, well, “hotcakes”   Read Full Story