NEVER JET HOT

Just got a note from Swaptree, a DVD/book trading service... I tried them months or years ago, but doggone it, they have a system that makes you print the postage online, and it nags the hell out of you automatically... We are on Bookmooch (book trading site) and we generally mail books out pronto, but I don't need a nudge from big brother. It's a slick looking site, but they need to lighten up a bit before people will start posting zillions of items. I hope they take a page from Bookmooch's playbook and allow for people who also have a life. Often we request books there wherein the sender can't send it for a week or two, and once in a while they don't send it at all for whatever reason. We tell bookmooch and they give us our point back. It's not the end of the world! I guess what I am saying... Take a chill pill, Swaptree!

I just noticed that we are using "Marathon" brand toilet tissue. Seems like quality stuff, but I hope I never have to find out if it lives up to the name.

We get all kinds of offers from suppliers all over the world, but this one caught my eye; Just about 35 years late on that one, guys.

What kind of "Restless Mouse" site would we have without a windup, furry, creepy novelty mouse toy? However it sort of creeps me out the way the tail moves as it goes. The one we took for product testing drives the dog NUTS. The windup mice come in white, gray, black, or brown, you can request your desired color(s) in the comments field when you order, most folks don't really care, in that case we will send whatever is top of the box. They are inexpensive fun, Get your furry skittering mice here

We just changed the vendor-supplied template on ThatRestlessMouse.com - it solved an issues with search in firefox browsers, and more importantly, made it much easier to change the quantity on items in the cart. Of course, this has no effect on orders or shipping. It just looks different. Many thanks to Foodgirl.com for mentioning our Corndog scented car air fresheners in her newsletter. They must have a large, devoted following; we had a HUGE run on those. In fact we got 72 today but only a few left now! Ordering more.

The Hoverscooter; "To accelerate you lean back while gripping the handlebar" - What do you grip when you DON'T want to accelerate? It takes 20 feet to stop the thing! I suspect most people using this thing spend much of the time sitting on the pavement gripping their heads and wondering what happened. I guess if you can slap down 17 grand for this goofy thing, you can hire people to chase you with big pillows or something. (From Hammacher.com - used here for parody and education.)