Save your hot date from TV hell with TV-B-Gone!

Tired of spending the evening with your date looking over your shoulder with that glazed look in his eyes? I *hate* it when I'm in a bar/restaurant/airport/wherever and there's a TV on. It's always on some ESPN-type channel showing some sporting event and, invariably, my husband's eyes will be darting back and forth to the set all night.

Put an end to TV-date interference with TV-B-Gone! It's a pocket-sized universal remote that turns off any TV, anywhere. Just surreptitiously point-and-click at the offending set and voila! you'll have a full night of uninterrupted social enjoyment! I HAVE to have this!

Everyone needs the BananaBunker!

If you brown-bag it at work, you need the BananaBunker! It keeps your banana squish-free in even the most overstuffed backpacks!

Thanks to Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools for the tip!

Book Review: The Viscount Who Loved Me - by Julia Quinn

Synopsis: The Viscount Who Loved Me is the 2nd novel in Julia Quinn's Bridgertons series. It is the story of Anthony Bridgerton (the eldest of the Bridgerton siblings, also the Viscount) and Kate. Anthony is shopping for a wife - he doesn't care who, really - just someone to produce the requisite heir. He randomly picks Kate's younger sister, who happens to be the prettiest girl in town that year. The problem is, Kate takes an instant disliking to Anthony, and in order to woo her sister, he has to win Kate's approval. Kate, of course, turns out to be really pretty fun. Anthony finds he would rather spend time with her than the woman he is supposed to be courting.

I liked this one almost as much as I did The Duke and I.Our hero has an interesting hangup: he believes that he's not going to live past the age of 38. The story's not much to get excited over, but the characters are great. It's nice to see elements of vulnerability in the hero and heroine, and Quinn actually takes the time to illustrate why the characters have the hangups they do.

I rated this one in my LibraryThing catalog at 5 stars!

Next Harry Potter book coming out July 21st!!!

Apparently, it's official. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is scheduled to be released on July 21st, 2007!!! I may have to camp out at my local bookstore for this one!