NEVER JET HOT

If you live in the Marysville/Arlington area, you may find a bunch of "Round Tuits" in the bushes or ??? - Teresa's purse and our Geo-Cache kit were stolen by a smash-and-grab criminal at Blue Stilly Park while we were looking for a Geo-cache. I had the GPS with me and there was no cash in her purse, but they did take the kit with the little trinkets in it and a couple dozen Tuits. They had a time driving around to 7-11's and gas stations, but the one that chafes my hide, they went to Denny's, and probably got PIE. I never get to have pie at Denny's because Teresa is always "too full". I console myself with the certainty that these people will soon be eating jail food instead, 7-11's have cameras and I gave the police a printout of their charges.

I was talking to lady at work and discovered her father was principal of the elementary school I attended... found myself uttering the phrase "Your dad paddled me!!" (It was for fighting with another kid, and I didn't even start it! So we both got it. That will teach you kids not to be violent!) .

My brother Buddy sent me this. His truck smells like ummm girls... 

We get all kinds of strange proposals here at The Restless Mouse... ... after logging in and registering their Rock, RockTravelers leave that personalized Rock at a memorable site to be be found by a Rock Discoverer. The Rock Discoverer then logs onto RockTraveler.com, enters the serial number of the found rock and begins a secure internet dialogue. The Rock Discoverer is then encouraged by the RockTraveler to leave the rock for another discovery and to purchase their own Membership Kit... Cripes. What a stupid concept. It combines elements of Geo-Caching, Wheresgeorge.com, it smacks of Amway and maybe some Enron people could be involved in this. I'm just speculating, but it's got to be the love child of Rube Goldberg and the kid from "Paper Moon".

A bit of advice to our competitors - Just give up now. Save yourself a lot of grief. Look, it would be nearly impossible to beat our unique selection, super low prices, and fast, friendly service, especially in the novelty/gag gift arena. There isn't much money to be made in this niche anyway- you have to really love what you are doing (but don't expect it to love you back!) If you need to turn a decent profit, we suggest a citified high profile occupation such as selling real estate or time shares. Lacking in moral fiber? This is an ideal time to go into the used car business, politics, or email advertising.

About an MIT affort to provide laptops to kids in underdeveloped countries; Gates mocks MIT's $100 laptop effort | Tech News on ZDNet : "'If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type,' Gates said. " Further efforts to provide the starving children with technology were hampered by numerous small insects infesting the MP3 players and the children's tendency to nibble on the pink Razor phones. Sheesh.

We just got an order from England... The UK if you will... Phone number in case of problems with the order begins with +44 796 I'm looking at my phone What I want to know is... Where the &##@!*& is the "+" key?

One day there was a boy at school. He needed to go to the toilet. The teacher said "Say your ABCs first" The boy started saying "A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O Q R S T U V W X Y Z" The teacher asked at the end "Where is your P?" The boy answered "Running down my pants!!"

So much for my dreams of becoming an Internet millionaire (Or even thousandaire) via Google ads... I had a Google ad sidebar on a lot of detail pages, turns out they don't get on well with the shopping cart... People were filling up carts and then suddenly the cart would only have the most recent item in it. This happened to me at Safeway once and I was not a happy camper. Especially when the manager told me I could not camp in the store, regardless of what I saw Al Bundy do on the TV. But I digress. The Google ads have all been removed, so there should be no more problem with carts getting tipped over. Enjoy your shopping experience.

Bought two boxes of Girl Scout cookies from some scout's grandma from day shift... Thus A> Paying way too much for cookies and B> Teaching the kid to leech off grandma instead of making her own sales on the cold streetcorner in front of the Piggly Wiggly. Worse yet, I didn't take them home... A hidden stash to eat over the course of several days, sharing with only a favored few... Classic addictive behaviour, I'm sure.

I'm slighty ashamed to admit it, I actually installed AOL 9.0 on some of our computers... And... I kind of like it. I know there are other ways to get virus and spyware protection, parental controls if you need those, a calendar with alarms, commercial free streaming multi channel radio.. etc... for $15 a month you get all that and more. (If you use your existing broadband connection) It's very configurable and not as intrusive as you might think... Stay tuned and we'll see if we go past the trial 2 months.