NEVER JET HOT

  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.  

Heh, "stray at home mom"

Awww... Smile! It's Father's Day! I got Sims 3 from number one son... now trying to set it up to play YouTube videos on the sims TV sets... By the way, this is Louis Prima, not Armstrong.

  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 for some reason the sim would refuse to use the facilities, and would pee in the hall. Good thing they haven’t invented stink-o-vision yet.  

   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 GTE, nothing bad happened then.   I suppose it might put a few people off of switching to Verizon’s Vios from Comcast, especially with the unfortunate name of the new provider. Frontier? Are they going to come down main street with guns blazing, “This here Internet ain’t big enough for the both of us!”. Are they going to censor my Internet service? “We won’t be havin’ you lookin’ at no dadblame dance-hall girls on our range! ‘specially the o...

  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 overtime at my “drudgery” job, and nobody else around here wants to give the website any love, so it will take maybe a few weeks.   The goal is to be ever-so-slightly cheaper than the “competition” on almost every item. (Let’s not get carried away!)

  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 always running late. It’s a passive-aggressive thang.   So, tip #1 for those installing Fios; immediately set up a “purchase password” under the “Parental Controls” menu, even if you live alone. Charlie says it’s easy to accidentally rent a movie otherwise.