The Restless Mouse Company develops and operates websites peddling cool retro & fun trinkets at low cost, working out of a rundown old house outside of Marysville, Washington and trying to rub two coins together; cheerfully living lives of quiet desperation.
As my brother says, we're not here for a long time, we must be here for a good time.
Keep those CARDS AND LETTERS coming in! Or at least drop us a line via email
If you were looking for Lakeside Novelty; We purchased the remaining inventory from Joel, and he also showed us where to get the merchandise
So now you can find great quantity discounts on old Lakeside items such as the light-up rose, the Permanent Match, the Magnetic Scotty Dogs, Naked Lady striptease pens, etc. here.
Please note that a lot of the old Lakeside items are no longer made, or they have become too pricey due to dollar value fluctuations. This is why we are (temporarily?) out of those fantastic Needle threaders.
Some things have become too expensive to produce due to product testing requirements, or associated changes in the rules– I believe this is the case with “Smoking Monkeys”, which I have been unable to find spare cigarette packs for in recent weeks.
If you have a Lakeside favorite that you don’t see on our website, be sure to click the CONTACT US button above, we will try to help.
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We have an account on Twitter, mainly use it when I have something to say that would be an awful short blog post, maybe a quick joke, a coupon code or quick special, or whatever.
It seems that many or most people (Or uh, “tweeple”) follow dozens or hundreds of tweet accounts. So unless they are searching within Twitter, I doubt that our “followers” even notice our “tweets” as they go rushing by, this is one instance where the old saw about it being an “information superhighway” would seem to apply.
My main problem is that it seems to be such a tremendous waste of time to “follow” so many people, like me they only come up with anything interesting once in a blue moon, and time is too precious to monitor it.
Now if you will excuse me, I need to go “buy” a couch for my “Sims” in Sims 3. Also I am reading a Phyllis Diller book, “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse”. I have my priorities straight.
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Shift change at the Boeing Renton Factory
Uh, Fremont Zombie walk
(See, no lunchboxes)
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Rumors of the death of Geocaching.com are greatly exaggerated; It’s down today and possibly several more days, due to a fire in the building that host the sterile banks of whirring computer servers that are the very lifeblood of any website.
Oddly enough, the building is in downtown Seattle, practically in the shadow of the Space Needle. I always envisioned these computers to be housed in some nondescript industrial park out in the boonies, not in prime Seattle real estate.
Unfortunately for me, it also knocked out our Verizon Internet for a time. There was a flurry of modem-resetting and “Is yours working?”, wailing and gnashing of teeth of course.
Teresa gnashes at the drop of a hat, I have been meaning to talk to her about that.
But I digress. The problem with Internet outages is that there is no good way to determine if it’s signal, hardware or software. I could call Verizon, but I have a feeling they are overtly covert about outages. (We watched “Burn after Reading” and now I am emailing friends to ask if by not emailing me, they are being “Overtly Covert” or “Covertly Overt”. Third possibility – They are trying to avoid my inane questions.)
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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 ones of questionable virtue!”
Anyhow, my contract still saves me about $230 total over the first year, including the $100 visa card I had better actually get. The phone has free LD, voice mail, Caller ID, etc. The internet is much faster. The TV has channels galore, including TV land, which we had been pining for. So yeah, so far, I recommend the switch. We will see what happens when those rascals from Frontier ride into town.
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