The Restless Mouse

I was down at the hardware store the other day and I noticed they now have a vast array of locking mailboxes. My sister is thinking that her mail may have been stolen recently. My suggestion for mail theft: Mail yourself letters about the money buried in your backyard. When someone shows up with a shovel, shoot.

WANTED: T-Mobile phone Marysville

Mine fell in the toilet. After a couple of days drying, I don’t think it’s
going to work again. Any style appreciated.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Mint announced that a new
fifty-cent piece was being issued to honor two great American
patriots. On one side of the coin would be Theodore Roosevelt,
on the other, Nathan Hale.

Asked why two people were going to be on the same coin, the
official replied, … “Now, when you have a coin toss, you can
simply call “Teds, or Hales!”

I’m was googling around trying to find out where we as a people went wrong and began this crap with the bunny that delivers eggs (but does not lay them. Time for a talk?)

Anyway, I found this;

Here are some simple Easter craft activities you can share with your little ones as I have with mine.

Bunny Drops

2 cups Brown sugar
1/3 cup Chocolate cocoa
1/4 cup Milk
1/2 cup Margarine
3 1/2 cups Dry oatmeal
1/2 cup Coconut flakes
1/2 tsp Vanilla
A pinch Salt

… I got news for you lady; I have seen “bunny drops”, and they ain’t chocolate.

from “How the Easter Bunny got his start”

My sister is selling a computer and wants to know what you would use to “permanently delete” data on the hard drive, without reformatting.

Me, I don’t know what you would use. By the time everyone in the house has had a go at a computer, it’s ready for the scrap heap. The last one actually made smoke when it fried out.

I have several old hard drives in the garage, want to find some tinted resin stuff to pour in the top, put rubber feet on the bottom, those high-tech coasters make excellent Christmas gifts, maybe we could make floppy disk cookies too. Nobody steal my idea now.

Our #BD1520 Clean or Dirty Magnet is right handy for the dishwasher, once you condition people to flip the stupid thing around right after putting away the clean dishes, and to flip it back to clean when running a load.

Otherwise it is handy to hold a note to the fridge, write your husband a John Deere letter and run off with a tractor salesman? That’s harsh.

Anyway…. The Dishwasher Magnet is one of our most popular items, and as low as 99 cents each, it’s no wonder.

I got my long-awaited Chumby Internet Appliance a few days ago, so far I mainly use it to stream music from the Internet to my night-stand, but soon I will set it up to route only my most important email (customer emails and orders) so I can look at it without getting up.

This might seem a bit frivolous to you, but I work a graveyard shift trying to dig up more money, and to a night shift worker, sleep is a most precious thing. If I happen to be like 48% awakened, I can use one eye to check the chumby, and if I don’t have anything to deal with right away, it eases my mind and I can ramp up to maybe 95% asleep, never reaching the sweet release of 100% comatose, but that’s not important right now.

ANYWAY - I must say I am most impressed with the quality and simplicity of this device. It’s so well designed and of such high quality, I suspect it was made by fallen Amish people who could not resist technology.

They call them rattlesnake eggs because the noise they make when you toss them in the air supposedly sounds like a rattlesnake ready to strike. I just like to use them as artsy fridge magnets, they sure are strong magnets. Someday I am going to try to saw one in half for an interior view. Now available with quantity discounts - We have scads of them.

An online provider has this detailed model of a human ear for $52 and free shipping. That seems to be a pretty good price if you need that sort of thing. I would probably be inclined to offer green salsa and VCR-cleaning swabs as add-on products that would increase the educational value of this product.




I mention this because our Wall-mounted Model Ear is also a valuable tool for the ear docs, if we had an artificial elbow it would be even better. Salsa and swabs not included.

We got this email today;

i am looking to buy in bulk for extra discounts on items to resale…. do you have anything that I am looking for? I like your items… just wish the price was lower…

And my reply was

I am putting those items up with qty discount charts at RestlessMouseWholesale.com
Also see THATrestlessmouse.com SALE category. Some of those items are below our cost, we are trying to get inventory down to eliminate the storage locker fee, also switching to that new online store. Thanks for letting me know, John